Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
hospital in England
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in Gobowen, near Oswestry, Shropshire, England is a specialist orthopaedic hospital which provides elective orthopaedic surgery. It is managed by the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital was originally established in Baschurch by Miss Agnes Hunt as the Baschurch Children's hospital in 1900. Agnes Hunt consulted Sir Robert Jones, after whom the hospital is also named, about her own condition in 1903 and he became honorary surgeon to the hospital in 1904. The hospital moved some 10 miles north-west to its present site near Oswestry as the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital in 1921 and became the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in 1933. The hospital took in badly-injured patients under the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War.
The hospital was served by Park Hall Halt, on the 2½-mile Gobowen to Oswestry branch of the Great Western Railway, which was originally opened by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. The halt opened in July 1926, and closed under the Beeching cuts in November 1966. The disused line today forms the western boundary of the site, and the remains of the halt can still be seen.
John Charnley, the leading orthopedic surgeon, worked in the hospital for six months in 1946.
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