Talk:Queen's Medical Centre

Anyone think that the recordbreakingness should be emphisised? This is a truly specatular example of a hosipital, and the article does it no justice. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jrockley (talk • contribs) 24 November 2006 (UTC).

I agree. I used to go to University next door to the QMC and it is quite stupendous in scale - quite unlike any other hospital I've seen, in terms of sheer vastness. Quite how a medium sized city comes to be possessed of such a gargantuan palace of medical care, I'm not sure. As well as Britain's largest hospital (a record which may be under threat from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary or Glasgow Southern, although neither has the QMC's awesome visual bulk) it is rumoured to be Europe's largest building in terms of floor space. [7-12-05] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.108.13.36 (talk • contribs) 8th December 2005 (UTC).

I have heard that the 'new' UCH is bigger. Not so sure about the "record-breaking" facets of the QMC now.195.107.63.244 (talk) 09:43, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Picture

Why a picture of an entrance sign?! Surely a picture of the buildings would be preferable, if only to convey their size? e.g. this one —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.111.128.61 (talk • contribs) 00:14 28 May 2006 (UTC).

The reason the current image is used is because the creator and copyright holder is a wikipedia editor who has released the image under a free licence. We can replace the image with the one you have provided if you can either prove that the copyright holder has released the image under a free licence or if you can argue a case under the Fair use guidelines. On a separate note, please remember to sign your comments by placing ~~~~ after the end. Also, it is good practice to add new topics to the bottom of a talk page so that editors can spot recent additions more quickly. Thanks. Road Wizard 00:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

i have lived in nottingham for 13 years and never knew that it was the biggest 81.146.41.193 19:17, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Kidnapping

I remember when I was a kid a baby got snatched from the materniaty war this was a really big story at the time maybe it deserves a mention —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.30.30 (talk) 18:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source? Road Wizard (talk) 18:12, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Not sure how much use this is [1] Bevo74 (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Claims of biggest hospital in UK and largest teaching hospital in Europe need references.

The references at http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/nottingham.aspx and http://www.gnpartnership.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nottingham-the-science-city.pdf are now dead links and the reference at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13683630 doesn't mention Queen's Medical Centre at all. Therefore none of the references provided can currently substantiate this claim. Furthermore other hospitals make the same or similar claims. e.g. St James's University Hospital. If the claim can not currently be substantiated it should be removed. 86.28.133.114 (talk) 21:58, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

At least one source, the gnpartnership, can be resurrected with the Wayback Machine, I haven't checked the others. I think it would be better to drop the mention of St James hospital and make clear that at the time it was built it was the largest in the UK and the largest teaching hospital in Europe. I don't think readers will expect it to still be true. The successors to the title are not really relevant to this article. I notice there are sources for it having 27 miles of corridors, which seems notable as well. TwoTwoHello (talk) 14:50, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree that it is dubious in the absence of a citation from an international reliable source. Dormskirk (talk) 16:51, 8 September 2018 (UTC)