The hospital has its origins in the Harrogate General Hospital on Knaresborough Road which was co-founded by
Wilfrid Edgecombe who headed the building committee, and completed in 1932. It joined the
National Health Service in 1948.
The Queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh visited the site later that year to celebrate the completion of the hospital and to conduct the official opening of the Strayside wing. The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre was completed in 2014 and
Prince Charles and the
Duchess of Cornwall made an official visit to it in 2016. ==Harrogate Hospital Radio==