Pilgrim Hospital
| Pilgrim Hospital | |
|---|---|
| United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust | |
 East side of the hospital from near the entrance | |
  Shown in Lincolnshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Sibsey Road, Boston, PE21 9QS, Lincolnshire, England |
| Coordinates | 52°59′28″N 0°00′35″W / 52.99105°N 0.00978°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Type | District General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 391 |
| History | |
| Opened | 28 February 1971 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Pilgrim Hospital is a hospital in the east of Lincolnshire on the A16, north of the town of Boston near the mini-roundabout with the A52. It is situated virtually on the Greenwich Meridian and adjacent to Boston High School. The fenland area of Lincolnshire is covered by this hospital, being the county's second largest hospital after Lincoln County Hospital. It is managed by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
History[edit]
The hospital has its origins in temporary premises which opened as the Boston Cottage Hospital in 1872.[1] A purpose-built facility designed by William Henry Wheeler was built in Bath Gardens between 1874 and 1875.[2] Additions included an outpatients' department completed in 1926, a nurses' home in 1934 and a maternity wing in 1936.[2] The facility joined the National Health Service in 1948.[1]
The first hospital in Boston, Boston Cottage Hospital, opened in September 1872, in two small cottages on Stanbow Lane; it cost £200 a year, and treated around 50 people in the first year.[3]
Design[edit]
Following a design competition held in 1961, a completely new building was designed by the Building Design Partnership, one of its earliest public buildings, under Sir George Grenfell-Baines.[4]
The design was agreed in January 1963. Phase 1 had 115 in-patient beds, the outpatients, a single-storey A&E and X-ray, and Physical Medicine. The five-storey 72-bed maternity department would be built in this phase, but would be initially part of outpatients, until the whole hospital had been later completed. The former maternity unit was at Boston General and Wyberton West (owned by the county council) hospitals.[5]
The 180-ft ten-storey main building would be built in the second phase in around 1973-74, for 560 in-patients and 40 day patients, at the site in East Skirbeck. The first storey of the main ten-storey block was built in the first phase. Later there would also be a three-storey theatre block. Mechanical engineering was by G.N.Haden. The boiler house, the first section to be built, had three boilers, with a 165-ft chimney.[5]
There would be residential accomodation for around 150 nursing staff, to the north of the site, costing around £150,000 in 1968.[6]
The hospital name was chosen at a meeting in September 1967 at Holbeach Hospital; this name was chosen, as a snappy title would save significant time over the telephone, or confusion. Many other possible names were rejected.[7][8]
The first phase would be built by the end of 1969, and would replace Boston General Hospital, on South End, and Boston London Road Hospital. The casualty department at the general hospital was moved to the London Road Hospital in November 1967.[9]
Around 23 student nurses joined the Boston School of Nursing, each year.[10]
Construction[edit]
Work on phase 1 began in August 1967, with the first phase to cost £2.25m.[11][12]
The inauguration of construction work was performed on 11 June 1968, by the Earl of Ancaster, with four hundred guests. The hospital would employ around 1,000 people. By 1968 the first phase would cost £3m, and the second phase £3.3m. The hospital would cost £1.25m to run.[13][14]
The ceremony was attended by the architect, George Grenfell-Baines, from Preston, and the Bishop of Grantham, Ross Hook, who gave a prayer. When the new hospital opened, the hospitals in Spalding and Holbeach would close, and the local councils made protests; the hospitals were not closed.[15]
400 friction piles, to 30 feet depth, were built for the main ten-storey block. The residential block would be mostly built by the end of 1968.[16]
At the end of June 1971, the £3m contract for the second phase was given to F. G. Minter, of London; Minter had built the BBC Broadcasting House in 1932. The other departments were planned to open in early 1975. The design of phase 2 would include a three-storey building with the School of Nursing on the second floor, and four operating theatres on the third floor.[17]
Construction of phase 2 began on 12 July 1971.[18]
The £2.1 million medical education centre was built in late 1992 by Lindum Construction (for the Trent Regional Health Authority).[19] It was later renovated by Taylor Pearson of Woodhall Spa in April 2008.[20]
In 2010, the Energy Centre was overhauled. Cofely (part of GDF Suez) installed a 526 kWe engine-based CHP, supplied by GE Jenbacher, which is supplemented by a 2.9 MW woodchip-fuelled biomass steam boiler, supplied by Binder of Austria, with further conventional dual fuel steam boilers. The wood chips are locally sourced from Thetford Forest.[21]
In June 2011 a £2.5 million renovation began on the Endoscopy unit.[22]
Opening[edit]
The A&E was planned to move in autumn 1970.[23]
The first part of the hospital opened on Monday 9 March 1970 - when the outpatients, and X-ray department, moved from Boston General Hospital. The hospital labs had opened on Monday 2 March 1970, one week earlier.[24]
The bus service to the hospital, in March 1970, was not adequate.[25] The maternity unit would open on Thursday 19 November 1970,[26] with the first birth being a C-section of a woman from Spalding.[27]
The first main phase was meant to open on Sunday 3 January 1971, with the transfer of the X-ray department,[28] but this phase would open at 5pm on Sunday 28 February 1971. [29][30][31] But it would be the end of 1974 before the other Boston hospitals were planned to be closed. Holland County Council had, also, recently built a new ambulance headquarters. Three hundred babies had been born at the new hospital by March 1971, with 400 staff at the hospital.[32]
In May and June 1971, the A&E was short of medical staff overnight, so local GPs volunteered to staff the A&E at night.[33]
It was originally hoped to have the full hospital opened during 1975, which was moved to April or May in 1976, but by August 1976, the ten-storey main block hospital of the hospital would fully open on 5 September 1976. Construction of the hospital had been interrupted in the early 1970s. The new hospital in Grimsby had started construction around this time. [34]
Running costs would be £5.5m per year. There were to be fifteen private patient beds, but only nine were eventually included in 1976. The entrance had a general shop, and bank branch. The kitchens would serve 1,500 meals per day. The main operating theatre suite, in the three-storey building, would open on 24 October 1976. There would be 531 nursing staff. The London Road hospital would be moved by 21 November 1976. It would take up to twelve months for all facilities to move to the new hospital from former hospitals. Furniture cost £731,000.[35][36]
Official opening[edit]
The first phase of the new hospital, named after the town's Pilgrim Fathers, opened in 1971, and after the subsequent phases were completed, the new facility was officially opened by Princess Anne on 23 June 1977, arriving by helicopter at 2.15pm at Boston High School.[37] She had visited RAF Waddington earlier in the day, for four hours. The chief constable of Lincolnshire Police also attended. There was a short service by the Bishop of Grantham.[38][39]
Notable staff[edit]
A series of four matrons who had trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes ran the original cottage hospital in Boston for over fifteen years.[40]
- Kathleen Disney, 1894–1897.[40][41][42]
- Louisa Pauline Lessey, 1897–1899.[40][43] Prior to her before her promotion Lessey was charge nurse between 1894–1897. [44]
- Mary H. Poulton, 1899–1901.[40][45]
- Evelyn Newman, 1901 until at least 1911.[40][46][47]
Facilities[edit]
The main part of the hospital consists of a ten-storey building. It has twenty wards and has a busy maternity unit. Just north of the building there is a helicopter landing pad, used by the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.[48]
An innovative way of managing hip fractures developed since May 2012, has seen the hospital recognised as the best in the country for treating patients with broken hips with 30 day mortality of 6% compared with a national average of 9% and an average length of stay of 11.6 days compared with a national figure of 23 days.[49]
The Care Quality Commission raised concerns about the treatment of children in the emergency department, and about the early detection of critically ill patients.[50]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Boston General Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Boston General Hospital (1074691)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ Sleaford Standard Friday 21 June 1968, page 25
- ^ "Obituary: Sir George Grenfell-Baines". The Telegraph. 3 June 2003. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ a b Spalding Guardian Friday 23 February 1968, page 1
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 10 May 1968, page 10
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 29 September 1967, page 14
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 3 October 1967, page 3
- ^ Sleaford Standard Friday 27 October 1967, page 3
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 4 June 1968, page 2
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 5 December 1967, page 1
- ^ Peterborough Evening Telegraph Saturday 3 February 1968, page 10
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 17 May 1968, page 16
- ^ Nottingham Evening Post Friday 7 June 1968, page 11
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 14 June 1968, page 3
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Thursday 29 August 1968, page 5
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Monday 28 June 1971, page 5
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Tuesday 3 August 1971, page 8
- ^ "UK: Contract - Boston, Lincolnshire; Lindum Construction". CN Plus. 17 September 1992. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ "Pilgrim Hospital Project". Taylor Pearson.
- ^ "Energy Efficiency: Pilgrim Hospital slashes carbon emissions with new energy centre". Heating and Ventilation. 8 July 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ "Work starts on £2.5 million Pilgrim Hospital project". Boston Standard. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ Sleaford Standard Friday 6 February 1970, page 9
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 3 March 1970
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 31 March 1970, page 1
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 10 November 1970, page 5
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 20 November 1970, page 6
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 1 January 1971, page 1
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 29 January 1971, page 9
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Wednesday 24 February 1971, page 9
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 26 February 1971, page 18
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 2 March 1971, page 5
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 1 June 1971, page 4
- ^ Spalding Guardian Friday 6 August 1976, page 7
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Friday 20 August 1976, page 11
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 24 August 1976, page 3
- ^ "Design and access statement" (PDF). Boston Council. p. 3. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ^ Lincolnshire Echo Thursday 23 June 1977, page 1
- ^ Lincolnshire Free Press Tuesday 28 June 1977, page 7
- ^ a b c d e Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
- ^ Kathleen Disney, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 99; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ "Appointments". Nursing Mirror. 21 (545): 208. 6 March 1897.
- ^ "Appointments". The Nursing Record and Hospital World. 22: 299. 15 April 1899 – via www.rcn.org.uk.
- ^ "Appointments". Nursing Mirror. 21 (545): 208. 6 March 1897.
- ^ Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.7, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.7, February 1900, 20; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London.
- ^ Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.8, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.8, March 1901, 22; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
- ^ "Appointments". The Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal. 12: 289. 28 January 1911.
- ^ "Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance is set to provide 24 hour care". Nottingham Post. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ "Back on their feet: How Pilgrim Hospital turned around hip fracture services". Health Service Journal. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ "Children at risk of harm at general hospital, warns CQC". Health Service Journal. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
