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The hospital has its origins in the Penzance Dispensary established in 1809. [1] This became the West Cornwall Dispensary and Infirmary in 1873 and the West Cornwall Hospital in 1928. [1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [1] A new CT scanner and new X-ray equipment were installed at the hospital in spring 2018. [2]
The hospital has its origins in the Redruth Mines Infirmary, which was largely financed by Lord Robartes and completed in 1863. [1] An accident ward was added in 1871. [2] The West Cornwall Women's Hospital was completed on an adjacent site in 1899, [3] and the two hospitals amalgamated in 1901.
The trust was established as the Royal Cornwall Hospitals and West Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust on 1 November 1991, and became operational on 1 April 1992. It changed its name to its current name soon after on 9 June 1992. [3] [4]
Royal Cornwall Hospital – Truro, Cornwall; Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital – Exeter, Devon; Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases – Bath, Somerset; Royal United Hospital – Bath, Sonerset; Royal Victoria Hospital – Bournemouth, Dorset; South Bristol Community Hospital – Bristol; St Ann's Hospital – Poole, Dorset
[5] [6] News outlets often use West Cornwall without any obvious correlation to either way of defining the area, but simply to refer to anywhere west of Truro. [7] [8] [9] West Cornwall Hospital is located in Penzance, West Cornwall. [10] Penzance, St Ives, Hayle, Helston and Land's End are notable places located in West Cornwall.
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The hospital carries out approximately 5,000 operations each year and sees more than 17,000 outpatients each year. [3] Its specialisms are breast surgery and orthopaedic surgery . [ 5 ]
West Cornwall is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is on the west side of the town, on the east side of the Housatonic River , which forms the border with the town of Sharon .