NUH News SPRING 2017

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Celebrate our 40 th
40 years ago:
1977
One of the first MRI scanners
installed at QMC. Since then,
the strength of the images has
increased 70 times. Now across
QMC and City Hospital, there
are 41,000 MRI scans carried
out every year and the latest
generation MRI scanner has just
opened at City Hospital
1977 1979 2001 2003 20
16 years ago:
The new Ear Nose and Throat
(ENT) department opened
11 years ago:
NUH is created,
together QMC, N
Hospital and Rop
under one organ
40 years ago:
QMC officially opens, the first
purpose-built teaching hospital
in the UK
38 years ago:
2017 marks a significant year in the life of
QMC, the first purpose-built teaching
hospital.
Plans for the new University Hospital
and Medical School began in
the 1960s; it was to be the
first medical school to be
established outside of
London, in the 20th century.
Building work began in
May 1971 and the new
hospital was officially
opened on 28 July 1977.
QMC famously has over
26 miles of corridors
and is built around 4
connected blocks –
one of which houses
the Medical School.
Things haven’t stood still
since summer 1977, and
staff and patients have
seen a huge number of
developments over the last
40 years.
We’re planning a year of
celebrations this year, and we’d love to
hear about your experiences of working,
or being treated at QMC over the years. Here
are a few memories to get you started.
Accident and Emergency
services transferred from
Nottingham General Hospital
to the new department at
QMC. Around 65,000 patients
a year were expected to use
the department. Today the
number of patients is over
200,000 a year
At 40 years old, the Queen’s Medical
Centre campus is very much the
youngest of the sites compared to the
other hospitals which now make up
NUH.
Healthcare provision in Nottingham
originally started as part of what is now
Nottingham City Hospital in 1729; in those
days this was the site of a workhouse
for the poorest members of society. The
hospital as we know it was opened 114
years ago; and Ropewalk House, which
was built to house the former Nottingham
Eye Hospital, which opened in 1912.
2017 is also an historic year for HM Queen
Elizabeth who officially opened the new
QMC building as part of the celebrations
for her Silver Jubilee year. Her Majesty will
14 years ago:
The last of the services from
the former Nottingham General
Hospital were fully transferred
to QMC. The General Hospital
site next to Nottingham Castle
was redeveloped in the 1990s
for housing, commercial and
healthcare use. The General
Hospital building is now the
headquarters for Nottingham
City Clinical Commissioning
Group and Nottingham CityCare
Partnership which provides
community care services
And many more
years to come
be the first ever monarch to reign for 65
years. The “sapphire” anniversary is on
February 6 1952, the day she acceded to
the throne.
Meanwhile, QMC has some way to go
before it can celebrate like Canada;
Canada is 150 years old in 2017.
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