King's Mill Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient and day care, urgent care and children and maternity services for the population of north Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. It is run by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which has its headquarters on the hospital site. It is situated next to the main A38 road in a former large open space, part of the countryside on the boundary between the towns of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Nearby developments include a large road junction with adjacent fast-food and pub, a hotel, a large DIY retail materials-warehouse and small shops together with some traditional, established housing on the very-edge development areas of the two district councils.
The majority of the hospital buildings are inside Ashfield District Council (town planning) area with some peripheral buildings falling under Mansfield District Council planning controls.
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Overview
The hospital serves the towns and many villages in the Mansfield Urban Area, parts of the adjacent Nottingham Urban Area, the Newark and Sherwood area and also parts of the neighbouring counties of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. The ambulance station, run by East Midlands Ambulance Service, opened in 1981, and is on the A38 road, nearby. separated from the hospital complex by Morrisons supermarket car park, which shares an approach-road with the hospital.
The hospital contains a full Emergency Department, with a helipad in the nature reserve to the rear of the hospital, where the air ambulance lands. The hospital also has a 24-hour primary care centre (PC24) which provides care for non-urgent cases.
Nearby hospitals include Newark Hospital (also run by Sherwood Forest Hospitals) the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital in Nottingham, which are run by Nottingham University Hospitals.
King's Mill Hospital is the primary site of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Providing healthcare services to around 430,000 people, it serves Mansfield, Ashfield and Newark and Sherwood areas.
King's Mill Hospital joined with Newark General Hospital and Ashfield and Mansfield District Community Hospitals in 2001 to form Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, which in February 2007 became Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust following its successful application to Monitor, the governing body.
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Rebuild
Sherwood Forest Hospitals has undertaken a £320 million modernisation which has seen a large reconstruction of the existing site.
The design incorporated surface-solar energy (SSE) heat recovery from an adjacent reservoir, which provides one-third of the heating and all of the cooling requirements for the complex. This involved submerging a grid of 140 stainless steel plates into the water at the deepest point, connected to the hospital via twin 350-millimetre (14 in) pipes laid under the A38 dual carriageway road.
The first major new building, the Diagnostic Treatment Centre, opened in April 2008, with a planned, phased relocation of wards into two of the towers starting in early 2009.
Maternity Services, including Neonatal and the Sherwood Birthing Unit, relocated from their previous accommodation in the Dukeries Centre to the new Women's & Children's Services building in 2013.
History
King's Mill was opened as a military hospital in 1942, as the 30th General Hospital of California - the first American wartime hospital in Britain. The hospital housed 400 injured American personnel as well as German prisoners of war.
The Mansfield Secondary Technical School opened in 1945 housed in Nissen huts left by the US Army Hospital. It was later officially opened (22 June 1948) by Sir Hubert Stanley Houldsworth, Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board. It later moved to new premises, becoming known as Sherwood Hall Secondary School.
Other areas of the site were used to create King's Mill Hospital. It was officially opened 17 September 1951 by Mr. Hilary Adair Marquand, the Minister of Health.
On 14 January 1975, the Dukeries Maternity Centre was opened by the Duchess of Devonshire, separate from the rest of the hospital and close to the main road. Maternity Services moved to the Women and Children's Centre adjacent to the new main hospital entrance, and the original building was demolished and recycled for hardcore by May 2013.
Radio station
King's Mill Hospital also hosts its own radio station, Millside Radio, which broadcasts around the hospital 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using the Hospedia wired distribution system. This is free to patients for radio, but charges for other communications, such as individual bedside wired telephone and television. Millside Radio has been established for over 20 years.
References
External links
- King's Mill Hospital information page at NHS UK
- Millside Hospital Radio
- Information on travelling to King's Mill
- Public Transport to King's Mill Hospital
- Public Transport from King's Mill Hospital
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