Shotley Bridge Hospital

The hospital originated with the acquisition of the Whinney House Estate in 1912.^[1] The facility, which was originally designed by Newcombe and Newcombe as a tuberculosis hospital, opened in 1912.^[1] It became a mental health facility known as the Shotley Bridge Mental Defectives Colony in 1927.^[2] It served as the Shotley Bridge Emergency Hospital during the Second World War specialising in plastic surgery,^[3][4] before joining the National Health Service as Shotley Bridge General Hospital in 1948.^[2] Although it was once one of the largest hospitals in the Northern Region,^[1] most primary care and acute services were transferred to the new University Hospital of North Durham in 2001. After this, most of the earlier buildings were demolished and it became a community hospital.^[1] In April 2019 the trust announced a consultation on the possible transfer of clinical services to a smaller medical centre.^[5]

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