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‘To understand where we are today
We have to know where we have come from’
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THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT
ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
Our Beginnings
Dates in the History of the Hospital and its Founders
1857 28 June. Robert Jones born in Rhyl, North Wales.
1867 31 December. Agnes Gwendoline Hunt born at Boreatton Park, Baschurch, Shropshire.
1891 Agnes Hunt qualifies as a nurse at the Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury.
1900 1st October. Florence House, Baschurch opens as a convalescent home for children, with Agnes Hunt and Emily Goodford as superintendents.
1903 Agnes Hunt consults Liverpool orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones about her painful hip condition.
1904 Robert Jones becomes Honorary Surgeon to the Baschurch Home.
1916 The Baschurch Home becomes an Auxiliary Military Hospital.
1917 Robert Jones receives a knighthood.
1918 Official inauguration of the After Care scheme for discharged patients.
1918 Agnes Hunt receives the award of the Royal Red Cross.
1920 First patients transferred from Baschurch to a new hospital site at Park Hall, near Oswestry.
1921 5th August. Official opening of the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
1926 Agnes Hunt is created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
1927 Agnes Hunt founds the Derwen Cripples' Training College.
1933 14 January. Sir Robert Jones dies at the age of 75.
1933 The Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital is renamed The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.
1935 £100,000 Appeal launched to rebuild the hospital and provide an endowment for the Derwen.
1939 The hospital is registered under the Ministry of Health Emergency Medical Service to take military patients.
1948 27 January. A fire starting in the dispensary destroys half the hospital.
1948 5 July. The hospital is incorporated into the National Health Service.
1948 24 July. Dame Agnes Hunt dies at the age of 80.
1948 September-October. An outbreak of typhoid infection among patients and staff results in 116 clinical cases, including seven deaths.
1952 Official opening of four new wards to replace those lost in the fire of 1948.
1961 Foundation of the League of Friends.
1965 Opening of the Charles Salt Research Centre.
1966 Establishment of the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries.
1971 Opening of the Institute of Orthopaedics.
1975 Establishment of the Orthotic Research and Locomotor Assessment Unit.
1978 Appointment of the first Professor of Orthopaedics based at Oswestry.
1987 Official opening of the Centre for Spinal Studies.
1991 Completion of the £7 million operating theatres and ward block.
1994 1 April. The hospital becomes a self-governing National Health Service Trust. Its name is changed to The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust.
1996 Opening of the Leopold Muller Arthritis Research Centre.
2000 1 October. The hospital celebrates the centenary of its foundation.
2001 Official opening of the rebuilt Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries.
2005 Opening of a new therapeutic swimming pool, the Pennill Pool, for which the League of Friends raised £1.3 million.
2008 Opening of the Musculoskeletal Tumour Unit.
2008 Transfer of existing children’s diagnostic and research services to the newly-built TORCH Centre, dedicated to the comprehensive assessment of children with mobility problems.
2011 1 August. The hospital becomes a National Health Service Foundation Trust.
Sources
1. Carter, Marie. Healing & Hope: 100 years of ‘The Orthopaedic’. Oswestry: The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, 2000
2. Communic@te: monthly staff newsletter, 2001 onwards
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