Homerton in my time

and in previous times

Nancy Hallett

Chief Executive

Hackney: the place

1198 First record of Hackney

1600s Immigration and non conformism

1694 Homerton Teaching College

1800s Poor social conditions

Hackney: Health care

1280 Kingsland Leper Hospital

1800s Well-off nursed at home, the poor

used hospitals - two kinds; Voluntary hospitals & workhouse infirmaries

Hackney Hospital in 1800s

1750 Hackney Workhouse Infirmary

1834 ‘miserable and depressing place’

1867 Hackney Hospital, with 600 beds,

a Matron and nurse training

programme

German Hospital in 1800s

1845 German Hospital opens with 12 beds

1851 Florence Nightingale undertakes

nursing training in Germany

1860 Expands due to fever epidemics

Eastern Hospital in 1800s 1870 Fever hospital opens

200 beds – 6 typhus wards,

2 scarlet fever, 2 enteric fever,

2 special cases

(Homerton teaching college having

moved to Cambridge)

1871 50 bedded small pox wing opens

Maternity Hospitals 1800/1900s

1884 Salvation Army opens Ivy House

1889 Midwifery training commenced

1913 Mothers’ Hospital, Clapton Rd 600 births

1930s 2000 births

WW2 Evacuated but 6,587 births during war

1948 Passes from Salvation Army to NHS

1986 Closed

Hackney Hospital – 1900s

1930 Hackney Workhouse closes

1948 NHS created and general

hospital established

1976 ?my first encounter

German Hospital 1900s

WW2 German staff interned on Isle of Man and hospital German in name only

1948 Becomes part of NHS

1987 Closes

Eastern Hospital 1900s

1920s Scarlet fever and diphtheria

WW2 St John’s skin hospital in

Leicester Sq bombed

1940s&50s TB & polio

1982 Closes and site cleared

Homerton Hospital – 1986 - 1994

1986 Homerton Hospital opens on Eastern

site and managed by Health Authority

1990s Tomlinson review and government response

1993 I arrive!

Homerton Hospital – 1994 - 2004

1994 DMU

1995 Income £53 mill: A&E – 50,000

1996 Major build begins:

DOSH, DSU, CT, RNRU, OPD, A&E,

1997 Children’s service open

1999 Acting CEO

2000 Real CEO

2001 Impact of NHS Plan, CHI etc

Homerton Hospital – 2004 - 2012

2004 FT status; EPR

2005 Service growth; business principles; governance and regulation

2011 Community services join us

Income £200+mill: A&E – 115,000

2012 Olympics

Reflections

40 years in NHS and 20 years at Homerton

Just a moment in time

Much change – for the better

Personal

NHS as a phenomenal thing

Phenomenal advances in health care

And a Homerton that is a very special place

THANK YOU