Royal Berkshire Hospital

Name :

Royal Berkshire Hospital

Address  :

Foundation Trust
London Road

Town  :

Reading

State  :

Berkshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

RG1 5AN

Phone  :

0118 322 5111

Web URL  :

Royal Berkshire Hospital
Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Colon & Rectal Surgeon
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • ENT
  • General Surgeon
  • Gynaecology
  • Hematologist
  • Neurologist
  • Oncologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Pain Management
  • Pathology Lab
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Urology
  • Vascular Surgeon
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 912


Description

Our main site the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading has recently
undergone a pound132m redevelopment

The Royal Berkshire Hospital RBH was opened in Reading in 1839 on four acres of land donated by Lord Sidmouth

The hospitals patron was Queen Victoria Reading architect Henry Briant was commissioned to design the 50 bed building Donations totalling pound13000 were raised to complete the building and equip it

Subscribers recommended patients who were cared for by honorary surgeons and physicians Battle Hospital began as Reading Union Workhouse built in 1867 at a cost of pound14000 Between 1889 and 1892 an infirmary was added with 185 beds for vagrants In the First World War it became Reading War Hospital The single storey Abbey block opened in 1972 became the main building on the site

The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 1993 A large programme of rebuilding resulted in the consolidation of all clinical services on the RBH site in 2005

The RBBH Trust became the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust on 1 June 2006
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