[2][3] In 1871 a new general hospital was built with a medical isolation unit added in 1887 for cases of cholera and other serious infectious diseases of the time.

From 1904, to protect those from disadvantage in later life, birth certificates of infants born in the workhouse simply gave their address as 1 Warrington Road, Whiston.

The works were carried out by Vinci, as part of a scheme with St Helens Hospital, at a cost of £338 million.

[5] The only remaining building of the former hospital is the G-Ward block (since converted for administrative and educational facilities and now known as Nightingale House) which was opened in 1996 by the late Dr Eric Sherwood-Jones, a Whiston Hospital doctor and pioneer of intensive care medicine in the UK.

Whiston Hospital offers the full range of acute healthcare services along with specialist burn care in the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Centre, serving a population of over 6 million people across Merseyside, Cheshire and other parts of northwest England, as well as North Wales and the Isle of Man.