Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4.01

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, an NHS district general hospital in Great Western Road, Gloucester, England. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has more than 600 beds and 14 operating theatres. It serves western and southern Gloucestershire and parts of Herefordshire. It also runs Cheltenham General Hospital.HistoryA hospital first appeared on the site during the 1914-1918 war and development accelerated in the 1960s.In 1912 a 149-bed infirmary was started on Great Western Road. Patients were transferred to the new building in 1914. The British Red Cross Society took over the west block for nursing war wounded in 1914 and the east block in 1915. The buildings were completed after the war. In 1930 the infirmary was transferred to the corporation and became known as Gloucester City General Hospital. On the introduction of the National Health Service it was amalgamated with the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary, which stood in Southgate Street until its demolition in the 1980s to make way for a new building for the Bank of England.The present organisation was formed in 2002 by a merger of Gloucestershire Royal and East Gloucestershire NHS TrustsPresent dayThe majority of the wards are accommodated in a ten-storey tower which was started in 1970 and opened in August 1975. Each floor contains two 30-bed wards. A £50 million extension opened in 2005.It also has green floors throughout the new extension which references the rolling countryside of the Cotswolds.