Talk:Royal Cornwall Hospital

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12 August 1799 The Royal Cornwall Infirmary opened in Truro (S. George district) - designed for mining community (though later opened for everyone) and paid for by George IV[1]
Had an expansion in 1939 from 20 beds to 180 beds due to £90,000 investment[2]
New hospital built at Triliske with 180 beds and 6 wards. Now has 650 & has 110,000 patients a year. "Co-existed with the RCH city site on Infirmary Hill in Truro from many years until the City Hospital started to transfer services to Treliske in 1992. The City Hospital closed in 1999 and has since been redeveloped with housing and a health centre."[3]
12 July 1968 HRH Princess Alexandra officially opened the Royal Cornwall Hospital hospital at Treliske.[4]
The Royal Cornwall Hopsital has 750 bed hospital. Maternity ward called Princess Alexandra Wing - David Camerons child born there.[5]

References

  1. ^ Polsue, Joseph (1868). "History of Cornwall". A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Compiled from the Best Authorities & Corrected and Improved from Actual Survey. W. Lake. p. 333.
  2. ^ "Royal Cornwall INfirmary". Cornishman. 7 December 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Fifty years of caring for Cornwall's patients at Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske". West Briton. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Court Circular". Times. London, England. 13 July 1968. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  5. ^ Alleyne, Richard (24 August 2010). "The Camerons' hospital has chequered past". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
All now picked up. Dormskirk (talk) 23:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)Reply