New Cross Hospital is a hospital in the

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district of

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, West Midlands,

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. It is located to the east of the city centre in

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and is managed by the

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (formerly Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust) runs New Cross Hospital and West Park Rehabilitation Hospital in Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Hospital in Cannock. In December 2020 it agreed to appoint a jo ...

History

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The hospital has its origins in the local workhouse designed by Arthur Marshall; the foundation stone was laid by the chairman of the Board of Guardians in September 1900 and it opened in September 1903. The design ensured that the workhouse had infirmary facilities in the north end of the site and the infirmary joined the

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as the New Cross Hospital in 1948. The first phase of the modern hospital, built by

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, was completed in 1970. It became the main acute general hospital for Wolverhampton when the Royal Hospital closed in June 1997. In October 2004 a Heart and Lung Centre costing £57 million was opened on the site, the

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's first purpose built specialist

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centre. In November 2015 a new accident and emergency facility, built by

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and costing £38 million, opened at the hospital.

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The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
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