Sandwell General Hospital
Hospital near Birmingham, England
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Sandwell General Hospital was an acute teaching hospital of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in West Bromwich, England and provides an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services.
| Sandwell General Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | |
Sandwell General Hospital's main block, August 2016 | |
  Shown in West Midlands | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Sandwell, West Midlands, England |
| Coordinates | 52.5277°N 1.9889°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | District General |
| Affiliated university | |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Founded | 1884 |
| Closed | October 2025 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
It was closed, along with the trust's City Hospital, upon the opening of Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in October 2024.
History
The hospital started as an infirmary which was added to the West Bromwich union workhouse in 1884. Improvements were begun in 1925, when the infirmary then became a separate institution named Hallam Hospital.[1] After the creation of the NHS and rebuilding in the 1970s, the hospital was renamed Sandwell General Hospital.[2]
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 National Health Service 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.[3]
Emergency coronary care was transferred from the hospital to City Hospital, Birmingham in 2015.[4]
The accident and emergency department (A&E) at Sandwell Hospital closed on 6 October 2024, after being replaced by the A&E at the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick. The Sandwell A&E is to be converted into an urgent treatment centre.[5][6]
Facilities
Sandwell General Hospital provided a comprehensive range of medical and nursing services including general medicine, surgery, urology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, interventional cardiology (including percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction since 2005) and paediatrics.[7]