21-406: Chester Hospital may refer to: Countess of Chester Hospital , Chester, Cheshire, England Chester-le-Street Hospital , County Durham, England West Chester Hospital , Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Crozer-Chester Medical Center , Upland, Pennsylvania, United States Chester County Hospital , West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, part of
42-536: A neonatal nurse who had worked at the hospital several years earlier, was found guilty on seven charges of murder and seven charges of attempted murder following a lengthy trial over the collapses and deaths of babies who were being cared for on the hospital’s neonatal ward during 2015 and 2016. The jury concluded that Letby carried out the attacks by injecting babies with air or insulin , overfeeding them and physically assaulting them with medical equipment. The trust came under scrutiny following Letby's conviction as it
63-723: A county palatine was preserved. This continued until the time of King Henry VIII . Since 1301, the Earldom of Chester has always been conferred on the Princes of Wales. Briefly promoted to a principality in 1398 by King Richard II , who titled himself "Prince of Chester", it was reduced to an earldom again in 1399 by King Henry IV . Whereas the Sovereign's eldest son is automatically Duke of Cornwall , he must be made or created Earl of Chester as well as Prince of Wales. The independent palatinate jurisdiction of Chester survived until
84-594: A position of power as quasi -princely rulers of Cheshire that led to the later establishment of the County Palatine of Chester and Flint . Such was their power that Magna Carta set down by King John did not apply to Cheshire and the sixth earl was compelled to issue his own version . The earldom passed to the Crown by escheat in 1237 on the death of John the Scot, Earl of Huntingdon , seventh and last of
105-600: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Countess of Chester Hospital The Countess of Chester Hospital is the main NHS hospital for the English city of Chester and the surrounding area. It currently has 625 beds, general medical departments and a 24-hour accident and emergency unit . It is managed by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , one of
126-517: Is on the same site, as is Ancora House, a purpose-built Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services unit. In April 2019, it announced that it would no longer provide elective treatment for Welsh patients because the Welsh government were not prepared to pay the full costs. The Welsh government have not increased the tariff for NHS procedures in line with NHS England , so the trust is paid about 8% less for patients from Wales. Rising waiting lists mean
147-601: The National Health Service in 1948, and then to the "Deva Hospital" in 1950. By 1948, Chester Royal Infirmary specialized in surgery and out-patients and the City Hospital, Hoole, in chronic illnesses, chest, maternity, paediatric, and general medical cases. Pre-war plans for the expansion of the Infirmary were eventually revived. In 1963 a large out-patient and casualty department was opened at
168-519: The British throne. From the late 14th century, it has been given only in conjunction with that of Prince of Wales . The County of Cheshire was held by the powerful Earls (or "Counts" from the Norman-French) of Chester from the late eleventh century, and they held land all over England, comprising "the honour of Chester". By the late twelfth century (if not earlier) the earls had established
189-586: The City Hospital was transferred to a new building at the south end of the site in 1971. With the opening of a new general wing and A&E department in 1983, several surgical departments from the Royal Infirmary were relocated to the new buildings. On 30 May 1984, West Cheshire Hospital was officially renamed the Countess of Chester Hospital by Charles and Diana , then the Prince and Princess of Wales and also Earl and Countess of Chester . In 1993,
210-507: The Countess of Chester became the first hospital in the UK to completely ban smoking for both workers and patients. In April 2014 a new two-storey wing was opened containing a state of the art 21 bed Intensive Care Unit on the first floor, replacing the old HDU and ITU wards. On the ground floor is an expanded endoscopy unit and the bariatric outpatients department. In August 2023, Lucy Letby,
231-634: The Earls. William III de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle , claimed the earldom as husband of Christina, the senior co-heir, but the king persuaded them to quitclaim their rights in 1241 in exchange for modest lands elsewhere. The other co-heiresses did likewise. It was annexed to the Crown in 1246. King Henry III then passed the Lordship of Chester, but not the title of Earl, to his son, the Lord Edward, in 1254; as King Edward I , this son in turn conferred
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#1732802455541252-624: The Royal Infirmary site was closed after its remaining departments were transferred to the Countess. The City Hospital, which had become a 120-bed geriatric unit, was closed in 1994 after its services were taken over by the Countess in 1991. In January 2006, the CARE building, sometimes known as Outpatients Four, opened and started providing new facilities the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, Department of Clinical Audiology, Renal & Urology Department and ENT Department. In 2007,
273-557: The University of Pennsylvania Health System Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chester Hospital . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chester_Hospital&oldid=1161443147 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
294-399: The first Foundation Trusts in the UK, formed in 2004. Cardiac rehabilitation services at the hospital are provided by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust . The hospital has its origins in the "Cheshire Lunatic Asylum" which opened on part of the site in 1829. The name of the facility changed to "County Mental Hospital" in 1921, to the "Upton Mental Hospital" on joining
315-568: The infirmary; this was accompanied with the completion of the Chester inner ring road in 1967. However, after the creation of the West Cheshire HMC (hospital management committee), a fresh decision was taken to focus all the hospital services for the district at a purpose-built site on Liverpool Road, adjacent to the county mental hospital facilities. In 1968, the new site was renamed the "West Cheshire Hospital". The maternity unit at
336-567: The time of King Henry VIII (1536), when the earldom was brought more directly under the control of the Crown. The palatinate courts of Great Sessions and Exchequer survived until the reforms of 1830. The importance of the County Palatinate of Chester is shown by the survival of Chester Herald in the College of Arms for some six hundred years. The office has anciently been nominally under the jurisdiction of Norroy King of Arms . In
357-480: The title and lands of the Earldom on his son, Edward, the first English Prince of Wales . By that time, the Earldom of Chester consisted of two counties: Cheshire and Flintshire . The establishment of royal control of the Earldom of Chester made possible King Edward I's conquest of north Wales , and Chester played a vital part as a supply base during the Welsh Wars (1275–84) , so the separate organisation of
378-563: The trust can increase the work it does for English patients, which is more remunerative. Before becoming a foundation trust in 2004, the trust received top 3-star rating in the former national performance charts. In 2016, the CQC rated the hospital as requiring improvement. The Trust lost the contract for sexual health services when Cheshire West and Chester Council awarded it to East Cheshire NHS Trust in December 2014. From 2015 to 2016
399-474: The trust cancelled urgent operations 37 times – the highest number of any NHS trust in England. Earl of Chester The Earldom of Chester ( Welsh : Iarllaeth Caer ) was one of the most powerful earldoms in medieval England , extending principally over the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire . Since 1301 the title has generally been granted to heirs apparent to the English throne, and after 1707
420-456: Was downgraded following the final suspicious collapses and deaths over the summer of 2016, resulting in the highest dependency babies no longer being treated there. Part of the old mental health hospital building, now called the 1829 Building, serves as headquarters for West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group , Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust , and various other NHS support organisations. The Bowmere mental health hospital
441-546: Was revealed management had protected Letby when consultants at the neonatal unit expressed their suspicions asked them to remove her from frontline duties. She was not removed from frontline duties until the summer of 2016, and remained on clerical duties until her initial arrest in July 2018. Hospital management did not report their suspicions to the police until May 2017, despite claiming that they were already having their suspicions about her conduct some 18 months earlier. The ward
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