{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Lytham Hospital | org_group = [[Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust]] | image = Cottage Hospital, Lytham.JPG | alt = <!-- Inserts alternate text for picture --> | image_size = <!-- optional width of image --> | caption = The original Cottage Hospital in Lytham St Annes | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Lytham St Annes | pushpin_map_size = <!-- width of the map in pixels (do not include "px"); default is 225 --> | pushpin_map_alt = <!-- alternative text for map image, see WP:ALT for details --> | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Lytham St Annes | coordinates = {{coord|53.7383|-2.9474|display=inline,title}} | logo = <!-- Please conform to copyright --> | logo_size = <!-- Use to limit the logo size --> | location = [[Lytham St Annes]] | region = Lancashire | state = England | country = <!-- 2 letter code or in full, United States must be "US" --> | address = <!-- Address of main building --> | healthcare = NHS | funding = Public | type = Community Mental Health | speciality = <!-- if devoted to a speciality (i.e. not a broad spectrum of specialities) and Type=Specialist/Teaching --> | standards = <!-- optional if no national standards --> | affiliation = <!-- 'None' or Medical School and university affiliations (medical or paramedical) --> | patron = <!-- 'None' or the individual who acts as the hospital patron --> | network = <!-- Hospital network, non-owner --> | beds = <!-- Cite in article as well --> | founded = 1871 | closed = <!-- Use if defunct, please also add to Category:Defunct hospitals --> | demolished = <!-- Use if demolished at a different time from closure --> | website = {{URL|http://www.lancashirecare.nhs.uk/}} | other_links = <!-- Creates "See also" field --> }} '''Lytham Hospital''' is a health facility in [[Lytham St Annes]], [[Lancashire]]. It is managed by [[Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust]].
==History== ===Cottage hospital=== The Lytham Cottage Hospital and Convalescent Home, which was instituted for the relief of the poor when suffering from sickness or accident, was funded by Colonel John Talbot Clifton, Squire of Lytham, at an original cost of £1,200 and opened in 1871.<ref>Lancashire Sites and Monuments Record PRN 21588</ref> The original building was a two-storey structure with four wards containing 16 beds. There was an operating room for "cases of a severe nature". A mortuary was located in the yard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amounderness.co.uk/lytham_hospital_1870.html|title=A new cottage hospital for Lytham|publisher=|year=1870|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref>
Benefactors included Elizabeth Layland, who in 1734 had left £60 for the poor or the education of children, enough to generate an annuity of over £2 each year for the cottage hospital.<ref>{{cite web|title='Lytham', in A History of the County of Lancaster|volume=7|first1=William |last1=Farrer|first2=J |last2=Brownbill|location=London|year= 1912|pages=13–219|publisher=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol7/pp213-219 |accessdate= 6 October 2018}}</ref>
The hospital was enlarged at a cost of £700 between 1882 and 1883. There were then 25 beds, some of which were made available for patients outside a five miles radius of Lytham. A new ward, in memory of Dr. L. Fisher, was subscribed for and built in around 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amounderness.co.uk/guide_to_lytham_1907.html|title=Guide to Lytham|year=1907|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref>
The hospital was completely rebuilt in the late 1920s when a time capsule containing contemporary artifacts was buried for future discovery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7256529.stm |title=Time capsule dug up in hospital|date=21 February 2008|publisher=BBC|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref> The hospital joined the [[National Health Service]] in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1675&page=35|title=Lytham Hospital|publisher= National Archives|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref>
===Primary Care Centre=== Following a consultation in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4758811.stm |title=Trust unveils new hospital plans|publisher=BBC News|date=10 May 2006|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref> in patient services were transferred [[Blackpool Victoria Hospital]], and apart from two wards which were retained (Ansdell and Talbot Wards),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2185108686_ed17e30937.jpg |title=Image of the building containing the older wards|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref> the old the cottage hospital was completely demolished. A new Lytham Primary Care Centre was erected in its place and opened in June 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lythamheritage.co.uk/aboutlytham/aboutlytham.php#cottagehospital|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105210830/http://www.lythamheritage.co.uk/aboutlytham/aboutlytham.php#cottagehospital|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 January 2009|title=Lytham Hospital|publisher=Lytham Heritage Group|accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of hospitals in England]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Borough of Fylde buildings}} {{authority control}}
[[Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1871]] [[Category:Hospitals in Lancashire]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde]] [[Category:Health in Lancashire]] [[Category:Defunct hospitals in England]] [[Category:Lytham St Annes]] [[Category:Cottage hospitals]]