Blackpool Victoria Hospital

The hospital was originally located on Whitegate Drive and was opened as the Blackpool Hospital in 1894.[1] It became the Blackpool Victoria Hospital by consent of Queen Victoria when it was enlarged in 1898.[2]

The foundation stone of a new building on East Park Drive was laid by the Earl of Derby on 9 June 1933.[2] The new hospital opened there in 1936 and then joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3]

The hospital has been shown in a major BBC One documentary, Blackpool Medics: 10 Days in May which featured the work of the hospital and the North West Ambulance Service. The second series was broadcast in January 2008.[4]

On 25 July 2010, a nurse named Jane Clough was stabbed to death in the hospital car park. Her ex-boyfriend Jonathan Vass, an ambulance technician, was later found guilty of her murder.[5]

The hospital departments include Accident and Emergency, the Macmillan Cancer Suite, Maternity and Gynae, a cardiac unit and intensive care. The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is situated at the hospital; the unit provides specialist Cardiology and Cardiothoracic surgery services for Lancashire and Cumbria.[6]

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