South Hams Hospital is a health facility in Plymouth Road, Kingsbridge, Devon, England. It is managed by

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, formerly known as Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is the organisation which runs Derriford Hospital, and the co-located Royal Eye Infirmary (REI), as well as the Child Development Centre in Plymouth, Devon. ...

and formerly by

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of NHS services in Torbay and South Devon. The organisation is seen as pioneering in the English NHS because of the work done with Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Tr ...

History

The facility was opened by the

Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell.

as the Kingsbridge, Salcombe and District Cottage Hospital in April 1929. In 1932, Emma José Townsend, a visitor to the hospital, was awarded the

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for trying to prevent a farmer from murdering his son with a shotgun in one of the wards. It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and subsequently became known as South Hams Hospital.

References

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