| Date |
Event |
| 1778 |
John Key died and bequeathed £500 for a county hospital or infirmary |
| 1780 |
The Duke of Newcastle and Nottingham Corporation donated land for the hospital and public subscriptions were solicited |
| 1782 |
Nottingham General Hospital opened |
| 1787 |
Derbyshire Wing of Nottingham General Hospital opened |
| 1798 |
Edward Jenner published his findings about inoculation against smallpox using cowpox (vaccination) |
| 1800 |
Nottingham General Hospital surgeon John Attenburrow inoculated his son with cowpox |
| 1812 |
Nottingham General Hospital : more additions to the building, including four more wards |
| 1812 |
Lunatic Asylum opened in Sneinton |
| 1815 |
The Apothecaries Act was passed. Nottingham General Hospital began admitting indentured apprentices for training in medicine |
| 1828 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Fever House opened for contagious diseases and patients suffering from venereal disease |
| 1828 |
Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Book Society founded |
| 1831-1832 |
Nationwide cholera epidemic |
| 1831 |
Nottingham General Hospital Dispensary opened in Hockley |
| 1837 |
Basford Union Workhouse opened (later became known as Highbury Hospital) |
| 1843 |
Nottingham General Hospital Dispensary moved to Broad Street |
| 1845 |
Reforms to the nursing establishment at Nottingham General Hospital. Appointment of a salaried Superintendent Nurse from the Institution of Nursing Sisters in London |
| c.1846 |
Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Book Society merged with the Nottingham Medical Book Society, and became the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society |
| 1847 |
Nationwide typhus epidemic |
| 1848 |
Nationwide cholera epidemic |
| 1848 |
Public Health Act |
| 1854-1857 |
The Crimean War. Florence Nightingale worked at the army hospital at Scutari. The events at Scutari highlighted the dangers of poor sanitation, as more soldiers died from infections than battle wounds |
| 1855 |
Nottingham General Hospital : third storey added to the original building, and Chapel built |
| 1859 |
Florence Nightingale established the Nightingale Training School and published Notes on Nursing |
| 1859 |
Eye Dispensary opened on Park Row, Nottingham |
| 1866 |
Eye Dispensary moved to St James’s Street and changed name to The Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary |
| 1869 |
Nottingham General Hospital : a trained Matron appointed for the first time |
| 1869 |
The Free Hospital for Sick Children (Nottingham Children’s Hospital) opened |
| 1873 |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Hospital Saturday Fund formed |
| 1875 |
Castle Gate Hospital for Women opened |
| 1879 |
Nottingham General Hospital : new surgical wing with two wards opened on Park Row frontage |
| 1880 |
Mapperley Hospital opened |
| 1885 |
Samaritan Hospital in Raleigh Street opened |
| 1892 |
Nottingham Corporation opened Bagthorpe Isolation Hospital and Sanitorium |
| 1897 |
Nottingham General Hospital : The Cedars convalescent home donated by Sir Charles Seely |
| 1898 |
Nottingham General Hospital : X-Ray department established |
| 1899 |
Nottingham Children’s Hospital moved to Forest House, Chestnut Grove, off Mansfield Road |
| 1900 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Jubilee Wing opened |
| 1902 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Fever Wards moved to old Children’s Hospital premises on Postern Street |
| 1902 |
Saxondale Hospital opened, replacing the Sneinton Lunatic Asylum |
| 1903 |
Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary opened off Hucknall Road, together with a school of nursing (later the City Hospital School of Nursing) |
| 1909 |
Bagthorpe Workhouse and Infirmary re-named the Bagthorpe Institute and Infirmary |
| 1912 |
The Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary opened new premises on The Ropewalk |
| 1915-1917 |
Nottingham General Hospital : temporary wards (‘the terrace huts’) erected on the lawn to house injured soldiers |
| 1917 |
Ellerslie House on Gregory Boulevard purchased by the Duke of Portland and opened as Ellerslie House Home for Paralysed Soldiers and Sailors |
| 1921 |
Linen Guild of Nottingham General Hospital formed |
| 1923 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Nurses’ Memorial Home opened |
| 1923 |
Amalgamation of Castle Gate Hospital for Women and Samaritan Hospital for Women |
| 1925 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Ransom Pathology Laboratories opened |
| 1927 |
Nottingham Children’s Hospital: new wing opened by H.R.H. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles |
| 1929 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Ropewalk Wing, Casualty Department, and the Mabel Player children’s ward (in an additional storey added to the Jubilee Wing) opened; old Fever House converted to a surgical wing |
| 1929 |
Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital near Mansfield opened |
| 1930 |
Nottingham Hospital for Women in Peel Street received first patients |
| 1930 |
Bagthorpe Infirmary re-named the City Infirmary |
| 1931 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Pearson operating theatre opened |
| 1932 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Player Wing medical block opened |
| 1933 |
Nottingham General Hospital : The Cedars extended |
| 1935 |
City Infirmary re-named the City Hospital |
| 1938 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Pay Bed Wing opened |
| 1938 |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Hospital Saturday Fund became the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Hospital Saturday Contributory Fund |
| 1939-1945 |
Second World War. Nottingham General Hospital became part of the Emergency Medical Service |
| 1943 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Castle Ward opened |
| 1945 |
Nottingham Hospital for Women took over Adbolton Hall as an annexe |
| 1947 |
St Mary’s Nursing Home became a Maternity unit of the Nottingham Hospital for Women |
| 1948 |
National Health Service established. Nottinghamshire hospitals come under the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board |
| 1948 |
Nottingham No. 1 Hospital Management Committee formed to manage certain Nottingham hospitals including Nottingham General Hospital, Eye Infirmary, Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital |
| 1948 |
Nottingham No. 2 Hospital Management Committee formed to manage certain Nottingham hospitals including the City Hospital |
| 1948 |
Nottingham Nos. 3 and 4 Hospital Management Committees formed to manage certain Nottingham hospitals including Mapperley, St Ann’s and Saxondale |
| 1948 |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Hospital Saturday Contributory Fund replaced by the Nottingham and District Health Fund |
| 1948 |
General Hospital Nottingham Nurses’ League founded |
| 1956 |
Linen Guild of Nottingham General Hospital became the General Hospital Nottingham Linen Guild and League of Hospital Friends |
| 1959 |
The Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary re-named The Nottingham Eye Hospital |
| 1963 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Intensive Care Unit opened |
| 1964 |
Decision to establish a new medical school and build a new University Hospital in Nottingham |
| 1970 |
Nottingham No. 1 Hospital Management Committee became the Nottingham University Hospital Management Committee |
| 1970 |
Nottingham Nos. 3 and 4 Hospital Management Committees merged to became the Trent Vale Hospital Management Committee |
| 1970 |
First students entered the University of Nottingham Medical School. Nottingham General Hospital and the City Hospital both acquired teaching hospital status |
| 1972 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Trent Wing opened |
| 1972 |
General Hospital Nottingham Nurses’ League became the Nottingham Hospitals Nurses’ League |
| 1972 |
St Mary’s Nursing Home (Nottingham Hospital for Women) closed |
| 1974 |
Trent Regional Health Authority replaced the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board |
| 1974 |
Nottingham University Hospital Management Committee became the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) South Nottingham District |
| 1974 |
The City Hospital became part of the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) North Nottingham District |
| 1977 |
University Hospital and Medical School opened by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and named the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) |
| 1978 |
QMC received its first in-patients, from Nottingham Children’s Hospital |
| 1978 |
Nottingham Children’s Hospital closed, and all functions moved to QMC |
| 1978 |
Eye treatments split between The Nottingham Eye Hospital and the QMC |
| 1980 |
Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) South Nottingham District replaced by the Nottingham Health Authority |
| 1980 |
Nottingham Hospital for Women: Adbolton Hall closed |
| 1981 |
Nottingham Hospitals Nurses’ League became the Nottingham Nurses’ League |
| 1981 |
Nottingham Hospital for Women closed, and all functions moved to QMC |
| 1982 |
Nottingham General Hospital : bicentenary year |
| 1983 |
Nottingham General Hospital : Stroke Research Unit opened |
| 1983 |
The Nottingham Eye Hospital closed, and all functions moved to QMC |
| 1988 |
Saxondale Hospital closed |
| 1992 |
General Hospital Nottingham Linen Guild and League of Hospital Friends met for the last time |
| 1992 |
Nottingham General Hospital closed, and all functions moved to QMC |