Sandwell General Hospital is an acute

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of the

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is one of the largest National Health Service (England), National Health Service teaching Trusts in England and comprises Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, City Hospital, Birmingham, Rowley Regis ...

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and provides an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services.

History

Sandwell General Hospital and All Saints Way - geograph

The hospital started as an infirmary which was added to the

union workhouse in 1884. Improvements were begun in 1925, when the infirmary then became a separate institution named Hallam Hospital. After the creation of the NHS and rebuilding in the 1970s, the hospital was renamed Sandwell General Hospital. A new £18m Emergency Services Centre opened on the Sandwell General Hospital campus in April 2005. This facility replaced the old A&E department destroyed by the largest fire in

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history. It incorporated a comprehensive A&E facility, Emergency Assessment Unit and Cardiac Care Unit. The model of care was developed with primary care to provide a fully integrated service. Emergency coronary care was transferred from the hospital to

City Hospital, Birmingham City Hospital (formerly Dudley Road Hospital, and still commonly referred to as such) was a major hospital located in Birmingham, England, operated by the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. It provided an extensive range of gene ...

in 2015. The

accident and emergency department An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pat ...

(A&E) at Sandwell Hospital closed on 6 October 2024, after being replaced by the A&E at the new

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital Midland Metropolitan University Hospital is an acute general hospital on Grove Lane in Smethwick, near Birmingham. The hospital was designed by HKS, Cagni Williams and Sonnemann Toon Architects. Its emergency department replaced those at Sandwe ...

Smethwick Smethwick () is an industrial town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before bei ...

. The Sandwell A&E is to be converted into an

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Facilities

Sandwell General Hospital provides a comprehensive range of medical and nursing services including general medicine, surgery, urology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, interventional

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(including

percutaneous coronary intervention Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure used to treat stenosis, narrowing of the coronary artery, coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. The procedure is used to place and ...

for

acute myocardial infarction A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is retr ...

since 2005) and

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References

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History

Facilities

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