North Cambridgeshire Hospital
North Cambridgeshire Hospital is a healthcare facility in The Park, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. It is managed by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The facility, which was established as a Cottage Hospital by Margaret Trafford Southwell, a descendant of the Southwell family who had been tenants at Wisbech Castle, was opened on 2 October, in 1873. The foundation was inscribed:
This Stone was laid on the 16th of October, 1872 by MARGARET ELIZABETH, elder daughter of SIGISMUND TRAFFORD-SOUTHWELL, ESQ.
She founded this Hospital
To the praise and glory of God,
And for the benefit of the Sick and Poor,
and appointed as Trustees
ALEXANDER PECKOVER. FRANCIS JACKSON.
ROBERT WHERRY. REV. JOHN SCOTT M.A.
Initially it had accommodation for 26 patients, taken from a radius of about ten miles.
In 1924 a film recorded a day at the hospital for the East Anglian Film Archive. An outpatients department was completed in 1904 and a children's wing was added in 1936. It joined the National Health Service in 1948. In 1984 Florence Fendick, the last private owner of Wisbech Castle, died at the hospital.
In April 2018 it was announced that £8 million would be invested in redeveloping the hospital.