Withington Community Hospital

Kind staff, and loads of information available if you need to find out anything. As a treatment centre it has lived up to its promise and I think it really helps the community around it. It is also where the Health and Well Being Service are based for South Manchester who have a dedicated staff team and loads of volunteers who are very helpful.

I have never seen Willington Community Hospital. I looked it up on the internet because I had hoped to find someone there that would look for information on my grandmother Rose Annie Baldwin (née Gibson), — grandfather Leonard Edward Baldwin — who gave birth at the hospital to my mother Rose Anne Baldwin on June 27, 1925. Does anyone know if they still have the old records there, or were they moved to another location?
Thanks
Dale
PS I cannot look it up because I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Withington Community Hospital isn’t really in Withington. It’s in West Didsbury. I was a bit suspicious when I was referred to this hospital as in my experience any establishment with the word ‘community’ in it has had zero sense of community and on the contrary has been pretty rough.
However, this NHS hospital is large, modern and welcoming with nice artwork on the walls — or so my boyfriend tells me. The dermatology department, which I was referred to, is located in a little old portacabin just down the road. Every time I’ve been there I’ve had to wait for at least 20 minutes after my appointment time. The walls are covered in little posters warning patients not to abuse staff if they’re running late, which made me think that my experiences were not uncommon. When I was finally seen the treatment I received was absolutely excellent, the nurse was always so friendly and didn’t give the impression she was rushing through (probably the reason for the wait). On one visit I also saw a specialist Dr who was just as friendly and helpful.
You can park free for 30 minutes (which would be enough to drop someone off but not for an appointment), there is a pay and display machine for longer visits and the 84 bus stops right outside the hospital. There isn’t an A&E, so this is only really a hospital you would visit on referral from a GP, but there is also a walk-​in centre in the main building.

The old Victorian Withington Hospital was demolished a couple of years ago (although I’m pretty sure elements still stand as there were a number of Grade II listed buildings situated there) when a new housing and apartments development was planned. It was a grand old hospital, and Florence Nightingale was quoted saying the plans (at the time) would make it the best hospital in the country.
This new ‘Withington Community Hospital and Diagnostic and Treatment Centre’ which is actually based in West Didsbury is more of day care and treatment walk in centre.
It’s a modern, clean building, partly coloured violet which after a while seems to work well — I guess it has a calming effect.
During last years numerous visits to various hospitals (everything came along at once for me last year!) I had to attend the clinic over a period of 2 months to treat a leg injury. I was referred there by my GP and within half an hour I’d been seen by a nurse. In fact on the majority of my following visits I never really had to wait more than 10 – 15 minutes in the drop in area. The hospital is much larger than it looks from the outsidebit of a tardis effect, and contains many facilities in a clean, modern environment.