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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Ysbyty Wrexham Maelor
| Name = Wrexham Maelor Hospital
| Org/Group = Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
| Org/Group = [[Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board]]
| Image = Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam. (Wrexham Maelor Hospital) - geograph.org.uk - 161697.jpg
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| Caption = Wrexham Maelor Hospital
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| Location = [[Wrexham]]
| Location = [[Wrexham]]
| Region =
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| State = Wales
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| Country = UK
| Country = [[Wales]]
| HealthCare = NHS
| HealthCare = NHS
| Type = District General<br/>Teaching Hospital
| Type = District General
| Speciality = <!-- Only if especially notable -->
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| Emergency = Yes
| Emergency = Major 24 hour A&E: Emergency surgery and disease quarantine facilities within A&E. Police station located in A&E,
| Affiliation= [[Glyndŵr University]], [[Bangor University]]
| Affiliation = [[Wrexham University]]<br>[[Bangor University]]
| Beds = 981
| Beds = 981
| Founded = 1826
| Founded = 1934
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| map_caption = Shown in Wrexham County Borough
The '''Ysbyty Wrexham Maelor Hospital''' is an [[National Health Service|NHS]] hospital for the [[North East Wales]] region, with 981 beds.<ref>https://statswales.wales.gov.uk/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Activity/NHS-Beds/NHSBeds-by-Organisation-Site beds</ref> It housed the North East Wales NHS trust before the merger of all the trusts in North Wales in 2010.
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The '''Wrexham Maelor Hospital''' ({{lang-cy|Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam}}) is a district general hospital for the north east region of Wales. It is managed by [[Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board]].


==History==
As of September 2012 Wrexham Maelor Hospital had a catchment area of over half a million residents.
The hospital has its origins in the Wrexham Union Workhouse which was completed in 1838.<ref name=workhouses>{{cite web|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Wrexham/|title=Wrexham|publisher=Workhouses|accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref> In the late 19th century a large new infirmary was built to the west of the workhouse building and a fever hospital was created to the west of the infirmary.<ref name=workhouses/>


A home for the elderly and infirm, intended to replace the workhouse, was opened on the site by [[David Lloyd George]] MP as "Plas Maelor" in 1934.<ref name=hist>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrexham.com/history/the-history-of-wrexhams-hospitals-43294.html|title=The History of Wrexham's Hospitals|date=29 April 2014|publisher=Wrexham.com|accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref> ([[Maelor]] was a [[cantref]] of the [[Kingdom of Powys]]).<ref name="CPAT - Maelor Saesneg">{{cite web|title=Historic Landscape Characterisation: Maelor Saesneg|url=http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/maelor/msadmini.htm|publisher=CPAT}}</ref> The facility served as an emergency military hospital during the [[World War II|Second World War]] and then joined the [[National Health Service]] as Maelor General Hospital in 1948.<ref name=hist/> The hospital was rebuilt using a nucleus layout and re-opened by the [[Katharine, Duchess of Kent|Duchess of Kent]] as the Wrexham Maelor Hospital in 1986.<ref name=hist/>
==Today==


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In 1994 Maelor Hospital was widely criticised for sending a stillborn baby's body to [[Cardiff]]'s [[University Hospital of Wales]] (UHW) in a cardboard box.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospital sent body by post in cardboard box|last=Holden|first=Wendy|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994|page=3}}</ref> The body should have undertaken the 200-mile journey by ambulance or [[funeral director]] but was instead given to a private courier firm to save costs.<ref>{{cite news|title=Baby's body transported in box|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994|page=6}}</ref> The body was carried in a plastic bag inside a plastic container, packed in a cardboard box, and was delivered along with medical supplies to UHW's stores. It was only discovered when the bottom of the cardboard box gave way and the plastic box fell out. [[Rhodri Morgan]], then the [[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]] for [[Cardiff West (Assembly constituency)|Cardiff West]], said: "This is the most disgraceful incident in the health service in Wales during my seven years as an MP."<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospital sent baby's body by courier|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994}}</ref> [[John Marek]], then the MP for [[Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)|Wrexham]], wrote to [[Secretary of State for Health|Health Secretary]] [[Virginia Bottomley]] "urging her to issue instructions to ensure a similar incident did not occur again."<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospitals split over body sent in parcel|last=Roy|first=Amit|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=20 November 1994|page=7}}</ref>
The hospital is a district general hospital serving Wrexham and the surrounding area and only 10 miles from the [[Countess of Chester Hospital]]. Other general hospitals are located in [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], [[Rhyl]] and in cities such as [[Liverpool]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]] and [[Birmingham]]. The Accident and Emergency department is the busiest in the north of Wales; it regularly deals with over 30,000 emergency cases a year.


==Services==
Over the last three years the A&E department has been expanded to allow for the increasing demand for care. New developments include a new specialist paediatric emergency department and a new self-contained isolation area for the care of patients with extreme contagious disease. The hospital forms part of the North Wales trauma network, working in conjunction with the major trauma centres at the [[University Hospital of North Staffordshire]] in Stoke-on-Trent for adult patients and [[Alder Hey]] in Liverpool for paediatric patients.<ref>{{cite web|title=Major Trauma Services|url=http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/documents/861/12_52_3%20Major%20Trauma%20Services.pdf|work=Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board|accessdate=31 May 2013}}</ref>
The hospital has 981 beds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statswales.wales.gov.uk/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Activity/NHS-Beds/NHSBeds-by-Organisation-Site |publisher=Stats Wales|title=NHS beds by organisation and site|accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref> It forms part of the North Wales trauma network, working in conjunction with the major trauma centres at the [[Royal Stoke University Hospital]] in Stoke-on-Trent for adult patients and [[Alder Hey Children's Hospital]] in Liverpool for paediatric patients.<ref>{{cite web|title=Major Trauma Services|url=http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/documents/861/12_52_3%20Major%20Trauma%20Services.pdf|work=Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board|accessdate=31 May 2013}}</ref>

The hospital is able to offer both emergency and elective general surgery, general paediatric services and a new specialist cancer unit has opened in the last decade.

==University connections==

The Maelor Hospital a teaching hospital and provides training for student nurses studying at Glyndwr University Wrexham and Bangor University.
The hospital accepts medical students of the Universities of Cardiff, Swansea and Manchester.

==Baby in a box==
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In 1994 Maelor Hospital was widely criticised for sending a stillborn baby's body to [[Cardiff]]'s [[University Hospital of Wales]] (UHW) in a cardboard box.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospital sent body by post in cardboard box|last=Holden|first=Wendy|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994|page=3}}</ref> The body should have undertaken the 200 mile journey by ambulance or [[funeral director]] but was instead given to a private courier firm to save costs.<ref>{{cite news|title=Baby's body transported in box|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994|page=6}}</ref> The body was carried in a plastic bag inside a plastic container, packed in a cardboard box, and was delivered along with medical supplies to UHW's stores. It was only discovered when the bottom of the cardboard box gave way and the plastic box fell out. [[Rhodri Morgan]], then the [[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]] for [[Cardiff West (Assembly constituency)|Cardiff West]], said: "This is the most disgraceful incident in the health service in Wales during my seven years as an MP."<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospital sent baby's body by courier|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|date=19 November 1994}}</ref> [[John Marek]], then the MP for [[Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)|Wrexham]], wrote to [[Secretary of State for Health|Health Secretary]] [[Virginia Bottomley]] "urging her to issue instructions to ensure a similar incident did not occur again."<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospitals split over body sent in parcel|last=Roy|first=Amit|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Sunday Telegraph]]|location=London|date=20 November 1994|page=7}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Royal Shrewsbury Hospital]]
*[[Rhyl|Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl]]
*[[Bangor, Gwynedd|Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor]]
*[[University Hospital of Wales]], [[Cardiff]]


==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
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* [https://hiw.org.uk/wrexham-maelor-hospital Healthcare Inspectorate Wales inspection reports]

{{Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board}}
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[[Category:Wrexham]]
[[Category:Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board]]
[[Category:Wrexham County Borough]]
[[Category:Hospitals in Wrexham County Borough]]
[[Category:Teaching hospitals in Wales]]
[[Category:Teaching hospitals in Wales]]
[[Category:NHS hospitals in Wales]]
[[Category:NHS hospitals in Wales]]
[[Category:1934 establishments in Wales]]

Latest revision as of 23:48, 12 December 2023

Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Wrexham Maelor Hospital is located in Wrexham
Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Shown in Wrexham County Borough
Geography
LocationWrexham, Wales
Coordinates53°02′48″N 3°00′37″W / 53.0467°N 3.0104°W / 53.0467; -3.0104
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeDistrict General
Affiliated universityWrexham University
Bangor University
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds981
History
Opened1934
Links
Websitebcuhb.nhs.wales/patients-and-visitors/hospitals-and-health-centres/wrexham-maelor-hospital/ Edit this at Wikidata

The Wrexham Maelor Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam) is a district general hospital for the north east region of Wales. It is managed by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

History

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The hospital has its origins in the Wrexham Union Workhouse which was completed in 1838.[1] In the late 19th century a large new infirmary was built to the west of the workhouse building and a fever hospital was created to the west of the infirmary.[1]

A home for the elderly and infirm, intended to replace the workhouse, was opened on the site by David Lloyd George MP as "Plas Maelor" in 1934.[2] (Maelor was a cantref of the Kingdom of Powys).[3] The facility served as an emergency military hospital during the Second World War and then joined the National Health Service as Maelor General Hospital in 1948.[2] The hospital was rebuilt using a nucleus layout and re-opened by the Duchess of Kent as the Wrexham Maelor Hospital in 1986.[2]

In 1994 Maelor Hospital was widely criticised for sending a stillborn baby's body to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in a cardboard box.[4] The body should have undertaken the 200-mile journey by ambulance or funeral director but was instead given to a private courier firm to save costs.[5] The body was carried in a plastic bag inside a plastic container, packed in a cardboard box, and was delivered along with medical supplies to UHW's stores. It was only discovered when the bottom of the cardboard box gave way and the plastic box fell out. Rhodri Morgan, then the MP for Cardiff West, said: "This is the most disgraceful incident in the health service in Wales during my seven years as an MP."[6] John Marek, then the MP for Wrexham, wrote to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley "urging her to issue instructions to ensure a similar incident did not occur again."[7]

Services

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The hospital has 981 beds.[8] It forms part of the North Wales trauma network, working in conjunction with the major trauma centres at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent for adult patients and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool for paediatric patients.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Wrexham". Workhouses. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "The History of Wrexham's Hospitals". Wrexham.com. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Historic Landscape Characterisation: Maelor Saesneg". CPAT.
  4. ^ Holden, Wendy (19 November 1994). "Hospital sent body by post in cardboard box". The Daily Telegraph. London. p. 3.
  5. ^ "Baby's body transported in box". The Times. London. 19 November 1994. p. 6.
  6. ^ "Hospital sent baby's body by courier". The Independent. London. 19 November 1994.
  7. ^ Roy, Amit (20 November 1994). "Hospitals split over body sent in parcel". The Daily Telegraph. London. p. 7.
  8. ^ "NHS beds by organisation and site". Stats Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Major Trauma Services" (PDF). Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
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