page_title: Royal United Hospital
section_title: Combe Park site
hierarchical_section_title: Royal United Hospital / History / Combe Park site
caption_attribution_description: English: Manor House, Royal United Hospital, Bath
context_page_description: The Royal United Hospital is a major acute-care hospital, located in the Weston suburb of Bath, England, which lies approximately 1.5 miles west of the city centre. The hospital has 565 beds and occupies a 52 acres site. It is the area's major accident and emergency hospital, with a helicopter landing point on the adjacent Lansdown Cricket Club field. The hospital is operated by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
context_section_description: The hospital moved to its present site, Combe Park, on 11 December 1932. The site had previously been used for the large First World War Bath War Hospital, which opened in 1916. In November 1919, it was renamed the Bath Ministry of Pensions Hospital, which it remained until it closed in 1929.
  The site was also used by the Forbes Fraser Hospital and the Bath and Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital, both founded in 1924 and which merged into the RUH about 1980. The former manor house on the site, originally medieval but remodelled in the 18th century, became an administrative building. The building is a Grade II* listed building due to its fine Adam style interior.
  In 1959, the hospital absorbed the Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and in 1973, the Bath Eye Infirmary, both located elsewhere in Bath.
  In July 2011, the Dyson Centre for neonatal care opened for premature babies. Over half of the £6.1 million cost was raised by the hospital's charity, the Forever Friends Appeal.
  In 2015 and 2016, some services were transferred from the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases to the RUH, including endoscopy and children's services, following that hospital's takeover by the RUH Trust. Construction started on a dedicated building at the RUH site in November 2017. It is planned that the last rheumatic diseases services will be transferred to the RUH site by autumn 2019.
caption: Front of former Manor House
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