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guard, and although all the glass in the hospital was smashed, there was no structural damage. Due to many of the East Anglian regiments and Air Force personnel serving in the Far East, Ely hospital became a unit which specialised in tropical diseases. The hospital also had a maxillo-facial unit which opened in June 1942, the first ever in an RAF Hospital, and was staffed by a dental officer who had been specially trained in that area. Selected staff attended the emergency medical section at
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Many RAF hospitals were opened in the Second World War period, due to its location in East Anglia near to the RAF bases of Brampton, Coltishall, Honington, Marham, Swanton Morley, West Raynham, Wattisham, and Wyton, it stayed open until 1992, (though the RAF hospitals at Halton and Wroughton survived
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hospitals; both female and male nurses would enlist doing six-weeks basic training at RAF Halton camp (not the hospital), and then move to Ely or Wroughton for three years of nursing training. As a post-war service, the hospital also treated non-service personnel from the local area (there was also
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An August 1940 opening was worked on the basis of the hospital not being complete, however, in terms of the other RAF hospitals, it was quite modern in having air-conditioning and was designed to be blast-proof. An enemy bomber did drop some ordnance near to the hospital in February 1941, killing a
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Groundwork for the hospital was started as far back as 1937, although actual construction started in 1939, and by June 1940, the hospital was opened with a capacity of 197 beds. Originally, land on High Barnes Road was allocated for the hospital, but this was moved further north to the road out of
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A closure programme was announced in 1990, with Ely due to go two years later. The site was closed by the RAF in July 1992, but was taken over as an NHS hospital by the local trust as a community hospital. Tower hospital in Ely closed in 1993, and all functions were transferred to the Princess of
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Both locations had numerous outpatients too. Besides routine medical work, and services to the local community, the hospital continued to provide specialist attention. In 1986, several air crashes resulted in pilots and aircrew being taken to RAFH Ely after ejecting for their aircraft.
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another hospital, The Tower Hospital, in Ely), and had an accident and emergency unit which was opened in 1963. In 1973, the hospital treated 31,000 outpatients, and 6,000 inpatients, of which, at least 30% were civilian patients. In September 1977, the hospital was given the
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and Ely having special burns units. By the time the hospital was running at full-strength, it could cater for over forty RAF stations within a 50 miles (80 km) radius. Many of the patients who were treated at RAFH Ely during the war, were casualties from the nearby
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Although no airfield existed at the hospital, in the 1960s a Spitfire aircraft was transported on a low-loader from RAF Middleton-st-George to act as the hospital's gate guardian. This was replaced by a Meteor aircraft. In 1962, nurse training was formalised at Ely and
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era RAF hospitals that were kept open post Second World War, remaining a military asset until 1992, although it also treated non-service patients, usually those who lived locally. On closure, the hospital became a civilian hospital under the
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The number of beds available for in-patients varied over the years, and numbers reflected the necessity (the Second World War) and the diminishing service community.
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Wales site. In the 2010s, the hospital was serving 40,000 patients per year.
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The tower at Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely. This was demolished in 2012.
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visited the hospital in July 1987, and unveiled its new name of the
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A black and white image of four nursing sisters on pushbikes outside a hospital block
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Cambridgeshire
Coordinates
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Hospitals in England
Royal Air Force
military hospital
Ely
Cambridgeshire
Second World War
NHS
RAFH Cosford
RAFH Halton
Chettisham
Littleport
East Grinstead
Halton
Rauceby
Cosford
Bomber Command
Wroughton

Diana, Princess of Wales
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See of Ely
James Baird

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