Cromer Hospital

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The hospital has its origins in a medical facility formed from two cottages in Louden Road in 1866.{{cite web|url=http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/our-services/our-hospitals/cromer-and-district-hospital/a-history-of-cromer-hospital/|title=A History of Cromer Hospital|publisher= Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|accessdate=30 July 2018}} The hospital was rebuilt in Louden Road in 1888 but then moved to a purpose-built facility opened by Lady Suffield at Old Mill Road in 1932. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and a new out-patients building opened in 1954.

In 2001 Mrs Sagle Bernstein, a Cromer resident, left £11m to Cromer and District Hospital in recognition of the excellent care that her sister had received as a patient at the hospital.{{cite web|url= https://www.independent.ie/world-news/11m-legacy-for-hospital-26114921.html|title= £11m legacy for hospital|date=28 July 2000|work=The Independent|accessdate=30 July 2018}} The terms of Mrs Bernstein's will were that it was to be spent on "improvement of general facilities" and could only be spent at Cromer Hospital. Some £500,000 of the legacy was spent on an eight-station renal dialysis unit which opened in June 2006.{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4555425.stm | title=New dialysis centre for hospital | date=17 May 2005 | publisher=BBC | accessdate=18 March 2018 }} The dialysis unit was relocated to the refurbished Barclay ward in January 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/Page.asp?ID=83|title=Work starts on new Cromer Hospital|date=1 September 2010|publisher=BBC|accessdate=30 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108220719/http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/page.asp?ID=83|archive-date=8 November 2007|url-status = dead}}

Following a feasibility study carried out in 2006, a tender competition for the new hospital was undertaken and a planning application for a £26 million scheme was submitted to North Norfolk District Council in November 2008.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7749595.stm|publisher= BBC News|title= Plans submitted for £26 million hospital|date= 26 November 2008|accessdate=30 July 2018}} The trust subsequently scaled back the scheme and a revised planning application for a £15 million scheme was submitted to the District Council in June 2009. After the application was approved in May 2010, construction of the works, which were designed by Purcell Miller Tritton and were undertaken by Mansell, part of Balfour Beatty, started in autumn 2010 and were completed in Autumn 2012.

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When the hospital was reopened in 1888 in two houses in Louden Road, a succession of London Hospital trained matrons ran the nursing department of the new hospital until at least 1917.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) They appear to have been selected because some of the Quaker founders philanthropic interests in both The London Hospital and Cromer Cottage Hospital. Philanthropic individuals who were interested in the management of the cottage hospital and attended the opening of the new cottage hospital in 1888 included Sir Samuel Hoare M.P., and the Buxton and Gurney families,{{Cite journal |date=30 June 1888 |title='Opening of the new Cromer Hospital' |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk |journal=Supplement to the Norwich Mercury |pages=n.p |via=British Newspaper Archive}} prominent Quaker families.{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Verily |title=Friends and Relations: Three Centuries of Quaker Families |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1980 |location=London}} The matrons listed below all trained at The London under Eva Luckes, an influential matron and friend of Florence Nightingale's.

• Emma Minnedew (1859/1860– ), from March 1889Emma Minnedew, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 81; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Sarah Lambert (1858/1859– ), from 1891Sarah Lambert, RG14/11164, 137; The General Record Office, The England and Wales Census 1911 for Cromer, Norfolk; The National Archives, Kew [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 10 February 2019]. Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.22, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.22, June 1915, 44; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Mary Thompson, from January 1895{{Cite web |date=6 December 2022 |title=Barts Health NHS Trust Archives Catalogue |url=http://www.calmhosting01.com/BartsHealth/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS%2fUK%2f3139&pos=1 |access-date=6 December 2022}}
• Jessie Brooks (1864– ), from March 1895Jessie Brooks, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/4, 50; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, LondonJessie Brooks, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 148; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Sarah Lambert, reappointed in 1902
• May Beatrice Towill (1886–1980), from June 1915May Beatrice Towill, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/17, 77; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, LondonMay Beatrice Towill, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/3, 287; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Elsie Mabel Marriot, from November 1917

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