Derbyshire Children's Hospital
Hospital in England
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Derbyshire Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Derby, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.[1] It was the only entirely new children's hospital built in the UK in the twentieth century.[2]
History
The hospital was established as the Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children in a Victorian building on North Street in 1877.[3] Picture tiles depicting fairy tales and friezes of birds and animals which decorated the wards were removed during renovations in 1980, restored and re-installed in the mid-1980s.[4]
The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and moved to a modern building on the Royal Derby Hospital site in 1996. It was the only entirely new children's hospital built in the UK in the twentieth century.[2]