Liverpool Women's Hospital

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The hospital, which replaced the Women's Hospital in Catharine Street, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, and Mill Road Maternity Hospital (formerly Mill Road Infirmary) in a single new building in Crown Street,{{Cite book| last = Pye| first = Ken| year = 2011| title = Discover Liverpool| publication-place = Liverpool| publisher = Trinity Mirror Media| page = 10| isbn = 978-1-906802-90-5}} was designed by the Percy Thomas Partnership and was constructed in red brick with white cladding and light blue metal roofs. It was officially opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in November 1995.{{cite news|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/gallery/diana-princess-wales-opens-liverpool-10991871|title=Diana, Princess of Wales opens Liverpool Women's Hospital|date=4 March 2016|newspaper=Liverpool Echo|access-date=20 August 2018}} A sculpture entitled Mother and Child was erected outside the main entrance to the hospital in 1999 by Terry McDonald.{{cite book | last1 =Pollard| first1 =Richard | last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England|title =Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West | publisher =Yale University Press | year =2006 | location =New Haven and London | page = 373| isbn =0-300-10910-5 }}

Liverpool Women's Hospital was investigated in 2018 as part of the investigation into the Countess of Chester Hospital baby murders, as perpetrator Lucy Letby had previously worked there. Following Letby's conviction in 2023, the police announced they would be investigating her activity at Liverpool Women's hospital as part of an overall investigation into Letby's entire career.{{cite news |last1=Parveen |first1=Nazia |last2=Halliday |first2=Josh |date=4 July 2018 |title=Cheshire baby deaths: police widen inquiry to second hospital |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/04/cheshire-baby-deaths-nurse-questioned-suspicion-murder-lucy-letby |access-date=5 July 2018}}{{Cite news |title=How the police caught Lucy Letby |url=https://news.sky.com/story/how-the-police-caught-lucy-letby-12933640 |access-date=2023-08-18 |work=Sky News}}

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On 14 November 2021, police were called at approximately 11:00 a.m. UTC following reports of a car explosion. The building went into lockdown and was cordoned off by the police; a man died and another was injured.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59282354|title=Liverpool Women's Hospital: One dead in car explosion outside hospital|work=BBC News|date=14 November 2021}}{{Cite news|date=2021-11-14|title=Counter-terror police arrest three men over deadly car blast - live|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/liverpool-womens-hospital-bomb-explosion-news-today-b1957456.html|access-date=2021-11-14|newspaper=The Independent}} Counter-terrorism police lead the investigation.{{Cite news|last1=Brown|first1=David|last2=Wace|first2=Charlotte|date=2021-11-14|title=Man dies after taxi explodes outside Liverpool Women's Hospital|newspaper=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/terror-threat-level-raised-to-severe-after-liverpool-explosion-p8r6vcm20|access-date=2021-11-14|issn=0140-0460}} The dead man was the passenger in the taxi and that the injured man was the driver.{{Cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/liverpool-womens-hospital-three-terror-arrests-after-explosion-kills-one-person-and-injures-another-12468520|title=Liverpool Women's Hospital: Three terror arrests after explosion kills one person and injures another|work=Sky News}}

• Mill Road Hospital was erected by the West Derby Union Board of Guardians as a workhouse infirmary to care for the sick poor.{{Cite web |date=1 July 2024 |title=Mill Road Maternity Hospital |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f999d030-8152-4712-9e78-05825791ed31 |website=The National Archives}} It was re-named Mill Road Infirmary by 1891, and a new nurses home was built.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) It stayed as a general hospital until after the Second World War when it became a maternity hospital called Mill Road Maternity Hospital. This largely closed in 1993, and in 1995 it was one of the hospitals which merged to form Liverpool Women's Hospital.

Senior nursing staff of Mill Road infirmary included three women who had trained at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes.

• Edith Walker (1856–1929), Matron 1892 to 1896.Eva Lückes to Florence Nightingale, London Hospital, E., 9, October 1892; The Nightingale Papers; Add MS 47746, ff.125–128; British Library, London.Matrons Annual Letter, No.1, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.1, May 1894, 9; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London{{Cite journal |date=2 May 1896 |title=Appointments |journal=The Hospital |volume=20 |issue=501 |pages=xlii |via=www.rcn.org}} She trained at The London between 1881 and 1883,Edith Walker, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/1, 25; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London and was Matron's Office assistant from 1883 to 1892.Edith Walker, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 78; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Helen Cooper, Night Superintendent from 1892 to 1899.Matrons Annual Letter, No.1, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.1, May 1894, 10; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London Matrons Annual Letter to Nurses, No.6, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.6, March 1899, 21; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London Cooper trained at The London between 1883 and 1885.Helen Cooper, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/1, 148; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
• Mary Gertrude Halkett (1863–1935), Assistant Matron 1892Margaret Gellie Halkett, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1, 119; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London. {{Cite journal |date=18 February 1893 |title=Minor Appointments |journal=The Hospital |volume=13 |issue=334 |pages=cli}} until about 1901.{{Cite journal |date=February 1912 |title='The Overseas Nursing Association |journal=Nursing Notes |volume=xxv |pages=56–57}} Halkett trained at The London between 1889 and 1891.Margaret Gellie Halkett, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/3, 97; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London

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