{{Short description|Hospital near Birmingham, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Sandwell General Hospital | org_group = Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | image = Sandwell General Hospital - 2016-08-16 - Andy Mabbett.jpg | caption = Sandwell General Hospital's main block, August 2016 | logo = <!-- optional --> | location = Sandwell | region = West Midlands | country = England | coordinates = {{Coord|52.5277|-1.9889|type:landmark_region:GB-SAW|display=inline, title}} | healthcare = NHS | type = District General | emergency = No | affiliation = {{Plain list| * University of Birmingham * Aston University * Birmingham City University }} | beds = | founded = {{start date|1884}} | closed = {{end date|2025|10}} | website = {{URL|www.swbh.nhs.uk}} | pushpin_map = West Midlands | pushpin_map_caption = Shown in West Midlands }} '''Sandwell General Hospital''' was an acute teaching hospital of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in West Bromwich, England and provides an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services.
It was closed, along with the trust's City Hospital, upon the opening of Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in October 2024.
==History== thumb|left|The hospital's All Saints Way frontage, seen in 2009 The hospital started as an infirmary which was added to the West Bromwich union workhouse in 1884. Improvements were begun in 1925, when the infirmary then became a separate institution named Hallam Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2440&page=18|title=Sandwell General Hospital (Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust), West Bromwich|publisher=National Archives|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref> After the creation of the NHS and rebuilding in the 1970s, the hospital was renamed Sandwell General Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/WestBromwich/20th-century-T2738.html|title=Timeline History of West Bromwich|publisher=Visitor UK|accessdate=1 December 2015|archive-date=30 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130154702/http://www.visitoruk.com/WestBromwich/20th-century-T2738.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
A new £18m Emergency Services Centre opened on the Sandwell General Hospital campus in April 2005. This facility replaced the old A&E department destroyed by the largest fire in National Health Service history. It incorporated a comprehensive A&E facility, Emergency Assessment Unit and Cardiac Care Unit. The model of care was developed with primary care to provide a fully integrated service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/474006/emergency-services-centre-opens-sandwell|title=Emergency services centre opens in Sandwell|date=6 May 2005|publisher=Planning Resource|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>
Emergency coronary care was transferred from the hospital to City Hospital, Birmingham in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bosses defend Sandwell heart centre move|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-news/2015/08/11/bosses-defend-sandwell-heart-centre-move/|accessdate=24 August 2015|publisher=Express and Star|date=11 August 2015}}</ref>
The accident and emergency department (A&E) at Sandwell Hospital closed on 6 October 2024, after being replaced by the A&E at the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick. The Sandwell A&E is to be converted into an urgent treatment centre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Patients transferred as super hospital opens doors |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylg21epw4o |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=BBC News |date=6 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/our-new-hospital/sandwell-health-campus/ |title=Sandwell Health Campus |publisher=Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust |accessdate=3 November 2024}}</ref>
==Facilities== Sandwell General Hospital provided a comprehensive range of medical and nursing services including general medicine, surgery, urology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, interventional cardiology (including percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction since 2005) and paediatrics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/services/|title=Services|publisher=Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>
==See also== * List of hospitals in England
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