Report - Newcastle General Hospital 04/2022

[EXPLOREWITHME23]

This was a explore i was glad i did and was very easy access at the time there were security but did not seem that fussed if someone was in there, but security is tight now, here is some history about the place.
for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moving from three to two key sites, the hospital was closed and the majority of services transferred to the city's other two hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. The Accident and Emergency Department and Intensive Care closed on 16 November 2010. A walk-in centre for minor ailments and injuries remained on the site

The hospital was originally constructed as the infirmary for the Newcastle Union Workhouse Building began in 1868 and it opened in 1870. In 1921 the administration of the hospital was separated from the Workhouse and the name was changed to the Wingrove Hospital. In 1948 the name was changed to the Newcastle General Hospital when it became part of the National Health Service.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reorganised the way it provided acute and tertiary health care in the city and most of the acute services at the hospital were moved to the Freeman Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary between 2008 and 2010. The remaining land is being made available for commercial development the building of a science park (as part of the Newcastle Science City initiative) and the further development of Newcastle University’s "Campus for Ageing and Vitality". Newcastle University bought the site in 2019 and plans to develop the UK's first health innovation neighbourhood.

 

[MacVicar]

This was a explore i was glad i did and was very easy access at the time there were security but did not seem that fussed if someone was in there, but security is tight now, here is some history about the place.
for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. As part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moving from three to two key sites, the hospital was closed and the majority of services transferred to the city's other two hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. The Accident and Emergency Department and Intensive Care closed on 16 November 2010. A walk-in centre for minor ailments and injuries remained on the site

The hospital was originally constructed as the infirmary for the Newcastle Union Workhouse Building began in 1868 and it opened in 1870. In 1921 the administration of the hospital was separated from the Workhouse and the name was changed to the Wingrove Hospital. In 1948 the name was changed to the Newcastle General Hospital when it became part of the National Health Service.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reorganised the way it provided acute and tertiary health care in the city and most of the acute services at the hospital were moved to the Freeman Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary between 2008 and 2010. The remaining land is being made available for commercial development the building of a science park (as part of the Newcastle Science City initiative) and the further development of Newcastle University’s "Campus for Ageing and Vitality". Newcastle University bought the site in 2019 and plans to develop the UK's first health innovation neighbourhood.

 

[MacVicar]

No Mortuary pics?

 

[EXPLOREWITHME23]

No Mortuary pics?

No sorry there were parts locked up i couldnt get into.

 

[MacVicar]

No sorry there were parts locked up i couldnt get into.

No sorry there were parts locked up i couldnt get into.

Oh hell!

 

[EXPLOREWITHME23]

Oh hell!

A know was off one half open and the other half padlocked

 

[GraemeW]

Wow, In my Marconi Medical days I looked after some teleradiololgy computers and one was in the neurology HD ward. Others were at Freeman, North Tyne, Hexham, Hartlepool, Ashington, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow etc. Then it all got sold to Philips

 

[wolfism]

Wow, In my Marconi Medical days I looked after some teleradiololgy computers and one was in the neurology HD ward ... Then it all got sold to Philips

That's why this country is struggling economically now - many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms. Thorn-EMI and GEC had medical science arms as well, IIRC.

 

[Hayman]

That's why this country is struggling economically now - many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms. Thorn-EMI and GEC had medical science arms as well, IIRC.

Perhaps it began when Alexander Fleming took his penecillin mould to America to obtain mass production. Admittedly the year was 1941, and the US was still sitting on the sidelines, watching WWII from 3,000 miles away. Once it had joined in , and realised the need for the new drug (for its own troops), it did start mass producing it - even allowing us to use it! That civilian use in the UK did not begin until 1946 says something for the medical ethos of the time.

As for "many British technology companies sold their ideas and patents (or themselves) to foreign firms", part of this may have come from there being larger markets abroad; especially the US again. But 'selling the family silver' (you can do it only once) has been the attitude of our governments as well. When one looks at the USA and Japan, such attitudes towards home-grown industry would never be contemplated. British bean-counters have a lot to answer for.

 

[wolfism]

When one looks at the USA and Japan, such attitudes towards home-grown industry would never be contemplated.

Agreed - selling off the computer chip designers, ARM, then re-listing them on the New York stock exchange is just the latest example. I'll bet it would never have happened in the US, Japan or China.