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Birch Hill Hospital

Birch Hill Hospital

Health facility in Wardle, Littleborough, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK (1877-2013)

Birch Hill Hospital is a health facility in Wardle, Littleborough, near Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was managed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust when it was a general hospital. Parts of the hospital are now managed as a psychiatric hospital by Pennine Care.[1] There is also the Floyd Unit which is a Neuro Rehabilitation Unit managed by Pennine Acute.[2]

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History

The facility has its origins in the Dearnley Union Workhouse which was designed by George Woodhouse and Edward Potts and opened in November 1877.[3] An infirmary was added at the north of the site in 1902.[3] During the First World War parts of the hospital housed injured service personnel.[4]

It became the Dearnley Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and joined the National Health Service as Birch Hill Hospital in 1948.[5] From 1974 Rochdale District Health Authority managed the Rochdale Hospitals, including Birch Hill and Rochdale Infirmary. In 1992 Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust was formed. Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust became part of Pennine Acute NHS Hospitals Trust following a merger of 5 hospital sites in April 2002.[4]

After services transferred to Rochdale Infirmary, Birch Hill Hospital closed in January 2013.[6] The site was subsequently sold to Persimmon for residential use: the developers have retained the clock tower as part of the new development.[7]

Other parts of the hospital were retained and there is now a psychiatric hospital on a smaller site. In 2011 Prospect Place a low secure mental health unit for men with severe and enduring mental health problems was opened, having cost £13.6 million to build.[8][9]

Facilities

The current psychiatric hospital consists of Low Secure Male Rehabilitation Called Prospect Place, Adult Mental Health outpatient and two wards Moorside and Hollingworth, Older People' Mental Health including outpatients and Beech Ward, and outpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    NHS (28 September 2009). "Overview - Birch Hill Hospital - NHS". www.nhs.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Floyd Unit - Neuro Rehabilitation Unit". www.pat.nhs.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Rochdale". Workhouses. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Investigation into matters relating to Jimmy Savile at Birch Hill Hospital Paper prepared for the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Board" (PDF). www.pat.nhs.uk. October 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale". National Archives. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  6. [6]
    "Birch Hill hospital in Rochdale - a landmark Victorian hospital - will finally shut its doors next month". Manchester Evening News. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Birch Hill Clock Tower part of local heritage". Rochdale Online. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  8. [8]
    "£13.6m men's mental health unit opens in Rochdale". www.rochdaleonline.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  9. [9]
    2011-05-25T17:44:00. "Official opening for new mental health unit at Pennine Care". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 7 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. [10]
    "Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust". www.penninecare.nhs.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
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