UK healthcare is the trading style of Bolton & District Hospital Saturday Council whose roots can be traced back to 1813 when the residents of Great and Little Bolton organised a public collection to raise money for the first 7-bed dispensary.
By 1877 an organisation was set up to raise the huge sum of £70,000 needed to build a new infirmary to meet the ever-increasing needs of the town.
To fund the planned new building and the dispensary the town’s residents paid less than 1p a week from their wages on a Saturday and so Bolton & District Hospital Saturday Council was born.