Queen Mary's Hospital is an acute district general hospital in
Sidcup
Sidcup is an area of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, bordering the London Boroughs of Bromley and Greenwich. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the ...
,
South East London, serving the population of the
London Borough of Bexley
The London Borough of Bexley () is a London borough in south-east London, forming part of Outer London. It has a population of 248,287. The main settlements are Sidcup, Erith, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Welling and Old Bexley. The London Borough ...
. It was once administered by Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust established in 1993.
Following the dissolution of the
South London Healthcare NHS Trust in 2013 it came under the management of
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a National Health Service trust named after the ancient Oxleas Woods between Bexley and Greenwich.
Current status
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust providing community health, mental health ...
, with other services being provided by
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust in London, England. It is closely involved with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, with which it shares its chair, Sir Hugh Taylor, its strategy director and IT director. I ...
,
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is an NHS trust which was formed on 1 October 2013 and is responsible for running two acute hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University Hospital Lewisham, in addition to community health services in Lewisha ...
,
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
The Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is an NHS Trust with an annual budget of about £121 million, and employs 1,900 staff. It manages Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Erith and District Hospital and Elm Court ...
and
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust of the English National Health Service, one of the prestigious Shelford Group. It runs Guy's Hospital in London Bridge, St Thomas' Hospital in Waterloo, Evelina London Chil ...
.
History
The Queen's Hospital was opened in prefabricated buildings in the grounds of
Frognal House
Frognal House is a Jacobean mansion in London, England, standing on the border of Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley, and Chislehurst, in the London Borough of Bromley. It was built in the early 16th century.
History A Jacobean mansion ...
on 18 August 1917.
It provided pioneering plastic surgery under the guidance of
Sir Harold Gillies to soldiers sustaining facial injuries during
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighti ...
.
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It was re-opened as a general hospital known as "Queen Mary's Hospital" by Queen Mary in 1930.][ It was damaged by bombing during World War II and joined the ]National Health Service
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in 1948.[ The prefabricated buildings were replaced by more permanent structures between 1962 and 1974.][
In April 2009 three NHS Trusts merged, those of Queen Mary's Sidcup, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Bromley Hospitals as the multi-site South London Healthcare NHS Trust.
In November 2010 the hospital's A & E Department temporarily closed and the maternity services in the Kent Women's Wing. Acute services were transferred to the two sister hospitals, the ]Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
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and the Princess Royal University Hospital
The Princess Royal University Hospital or PRUH is a large acute district general hospital situated in Locksbottom, near Farnborough, in the London Borough of Bromley. It is managed by King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The h ...
in Farnborough.
In October 2013, the merged Trust was dissolved, and the hospital split between various other trusts. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust became the owner of the estate and took responsibility for the running of some clinical services. King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust became responsible for running other clinical services at the hospital.
See also
* List of hospitals in England
The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts.
East Midlands
* Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire
* Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire
*Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottingh ...
References
External links
Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup
NHS Choice Page
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Hospital buildings completed in 1917
Hospital buildings completed in 1974
NHS hospitals in London
Buildings and structures in Sidcup