page_title: Northern General Hospital
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Northern General Hospital / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: Revamped Huntsman Building Entrance
context_page_description: The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital and Major Trauma Centre in Sheffield, England. Its departments include Accident and Emergency for adults, with children being treated at the Sheffield Children's Hospital on Western Bank. The hospital is managed by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
context_section_description: The hospital consists of a series of buildings and wings, many of which are named after significant families and individuals from Sheffield, particularly in the steel industry:
  The Huntsman Building: Named for Benjamin Huntsman, a manufacturer of cast or crucible steel, it is mostly orthopaedics but also contains the A&E, Surgical Assessment Centre (SAC), X-Ray departments, the theatres, one of four outpatients' departments, a large dining room and the site's main Medical Records department.
  The Firth Wing: Named for Mark Firth, an industrialist, it contains CCU, Vascular surgery and other surgical wards.
  The Chesterman Wing: Named for James Chesterman, a manufacturer of steel products, it contains the regional cardiology centre as well as extensive inpatient and outpatient facilities.
  The Vickers Corridor: Named for Edward Vickers, an industrialist, it deals primarily with renal and endocrine diseases but also contains departments of Sheffield Medical School and the Sheffield Kidney Institute.
  The Sorby Wing: Named for Henry Clifton Sorby, a microscopist and geologist, it contains the renal outpatients unit and the Metabolic Bone Centre.
  The Osborn Building: Named for Sir Samuel Osborn, a steelmaker, it contains the spinal unit.
  The Brearley Wing: Named for Harry Brearley, a metallurgist, it contains the respiratory and rehabilitation wards and a dining area as well as an outpatient department and a specialised Patient Discharge Lounge which allows patients to move into a comfortable waiting area before leaving the hospital.
  The Bev Stokes Day-surgery Unit: Named for Harold Beverley Stokes, a former Chairman of the Northern General Hospital Trust, this is the day surgeries area.
  The Hadfield Wing: Named for Sir Robert Hadfield, another metallurgist, this contains departments displaced from older wings of the hospital as well as the neck of femur ward.
  The critical care department contains the intensive care unit, the high-dependency unit and the post-operative surgical unit while the Clock Tower Building contains the finance department, dining facilities, the volunteers’ office, medical secretaries, security, human resources and the hospital's museum. An out of hours GP centre for patients with minor illnesses alleviates pressure on the accident and emergency department.
caption: Huntsman Building Entrance, 2016
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