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The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital
Teaching hospital

A teaching hospital is a hospital that in addition to delivering medical care to patients also provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals....
 in Brighton
Brighton

Brighton is a city on the south coast of England and, with its neighbours Hove and Portslade, forms the Brighton and Hove.The ancient settlement of Brighthelmston dates from before the Domesday Book , but it emerged as a health resort during the 18th Century and became a destination for day-trippers after the arrival of the railway in...
, England
England

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. Together with the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, it is administered by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. The services provided at the hospital include an Emergency Department
Emergency department

The emergency department , sometimes termed the emergency room , emergency ward , accident & emergency department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injury, some of which may be Medical emergency and requiri...
, cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
 services at the Sussex Cancer Centre, cardiac surgery
Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart and/or great vessels performed by a cardiac surgeon. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease created by various causes including endocarditis....
, maternity
Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the infant, and delivery of the placenta.....
 services, and both adult
Intensive Care Unit

An intensive care unit , critical care unit , intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit is a specialized department used in many countries' hospitals that provides intensive care medicine....
 and neonatal
Neonatal intensive care unit

A neonatal intensive care unit, usually shortened NICU and also called a newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery , and special care baby unit , is a unit of a hospital specializing in the care of ill or prematurity newborn infants....
 intensive care units.

main building was designed by Charles Barry
Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry Fellow of the Royal Society was an England architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in his home city of London during the mid 19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens....
, who was later architect for the Houses of Parliament, and is still called the Barry Building.






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The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital
Teaching hospital

A teaching hospital is a hospital that in addition to delivering medical care to patients also provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals....
 in Brighton
Brighton

Brighton is a city on the south coast of England and, with its neighbours Hove and Portslade, forms the Brighton and Hove.The ancient settlement of Brighthelmston dates from before the Domesday Book , but it emerged as a health resort during the 18th Century and became a destination for day-trippers after the arrival of the railway in...
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Together with the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, it is administered by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. The services provided at the hospital include an Emergency Department
Emergency department

The emergency department , sometimes termed the emergency room , emergency ward , accident & emergency department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injury, some of which may be Medical emergency and requiri...
, cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
 services at the Sussex Cancer Centre, cardiac surgery
Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart and/or great vessels performed by a cardiac surgeon. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease created by various causes including endocarditis....
, maternity
Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the infant, and delivery of the placenta.....
 services, and both adult
Intensive Care Unit

An intensive care unit , critical care unit , intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit is a specialized department used in many countries' hospitals that provides intensive care medicine....
 and neonatal
Neonatal intensive care unit

A neonatal intensive care unit, usually shortened NICU and also called a newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery , and special care baby unit , is a unit of a hospital specializing in the care of ill or prematurity newborn infants....
 intensive care units.

History

The main building was designed by Charles Barry
Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry Fellow of the Royal Society was an England architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in his home city of London during the mid 19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens....
, who was later architect for the Houses of Parliament, and is still called the Barry Building. The foundation stone was laid on the 16th March 1826 by the Earl of Egremont
George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont

George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont was a Peerage of Great Britain.A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he succeeded to his father's titles in 1763 at the age of 12, inheriting estates at Petworth, Egremont, Leconfield and land in Wiltshire and Somerset....
, and the hospital was opened on the 11th June 1828 as the Sussex County Hospital. The Victoria Wing was added in 1839, and the Adelaide Wing in 1841. The Sussex County Hospital became the Royal Sussex County Hospital in about 1911.

On New Year's Day 1872, a fire broke out on the top floor of the Adelaide Wing of the hospital, in Ward 6. Initially this fire threatened to destroy the building, but the efforts of volunteer firefighters and a detachment of the 19th Hussars saved the building.

The Jubilee Building was added to the hospital in 1887, and the Millenium Building in 2000. In 2005 the Audrey Emerton Building was opened by Baroness Emerton
Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton

Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton Order of the British Empire is a cross bench member of the House of Lords.Invested before as a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, she received a life peerage as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 Feb...
 to accommodate clinical medical students of Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is one of a number of new medical schools formed in the United Kingdom following the Labour Party s 1997 election victory....
.

In October 1984 this hospital received the injured from the bombing by the Provisional IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
 of the Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (Brighton)

The Grand Hotel is a Victorian era hotel in Brighton on the south coast of England. It is located on Kings Road, the main carriageway along the seafront; one of several major hotels along this road....
 where members of the Government were staying during the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 annual conference.

See also

  • List of hospitals in England
    List of hospitals in England

    The following is a list of currently operating hospitals in England. If you are looking for an NHS trust, you may wish to look at List of NHS Trusts....
  • List of medical schools in the United Kingdom
    List of medical schools in the United Kingdom

    This list of medical schools in the United Kingdom includes all thirty-two Medical school in the United Kingdom which are recognised by the General Medical Council and lead to a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery of a Universities in the United Kingdom....
  • Brighton hotel bombing
    Brighton hotel bombing

    The Brighton hotel bombing was the attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Grand Hotel in the England resort town of Brighton in the early morning of 12 October 1984....
  • Brighton and Sussex Medical School
    Brighton and Sussex Medical School

    Brighton and Sussex Medical School is one of a number of new medical schools formed in the United Kingdom following the Labour Party s 1997 election victory....


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