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A major redevelopment of the site to create Barnsley District General Hospital was completed in 1977. [2] The facility became known as Barnsley Hospital in 2005. [2] In 2021 an extension to the emergency department was opened which brings together the hospital’s previous paediatric units into a single location. [3]
In 2014/5 the trust was given a loan of £18.5 million by the Department of Health which is supposed to be paid back in five years. [ 5 ] It was the first trust in England to adopt a new digital portal allowing patients to receive and respond to appointment letters digitally, in March 2017.
The trust's estate expanded once again to include Kendray Hospital and Mount Vernon Hospital with a number of health centres and offices within the Barnsley district. Rob Webster, Former Chief Executive, was top of the poll in the Health Service Journal’s Top 50 chief executives in 2021, the first from a mental health trust. [2]
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Many of the older buildings were subsequently demolished and the site was redeveloped as a geriatric hospital with the new facilities being officially opened by the Princess Royal in 1961. [1] Additional wards were added in 1974. [1] After services had transferred to Barnsley Hospital, Mount Vernon hospital closed in December 2017. [2]
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The hospital was the gift of Mrs Ann Alderson Lambert, the last surviving daughter of Francis Kendray, a linen manufacturer. It was initially conceived as a fever hospital and the foundation stone was laid by the Mayor of Barnsley in March 1889. Barnsley Corporation provided the eleven acre site on Measborough Hill. [1]
Kendray is an area in the S70 postal district of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England that lies between Sheffield Road and Doncaster Road, both of which lead to and from Barnsley town centre. The area takes its name from Kendray Hospital which was named after the linen manufacturer, Francis Kendray. After the First World War building of council ...