South London Healthcare NHS Trust was a British

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

trust which ran three hospitals in south east London. It was dissolved on 1 October 2013 after going into

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. South London Healthcare NHS Trust was formed in 2009 by amalgamating three small trusts (Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust and Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust), each of which was losing money. Subsequently it ran up debts of more than £250m and was the first NHS Trust to be put into administration, in July 2012. The decision by the Trust Special Administrator to propose changes to

Lewisham Hospital University Hospital Lewisham (formerly known as Lewisham Hospital) is a teaching hospital run by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and serving the London Borough of Lewisham. It is now affiliated with King's College London and forms part of the Ki ...

as part of the winding up process was controversial and was successfully challenged in court by the

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and the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign. Its constituent hospitals have been transferred to other NHS organisations: * Princess Royal University Hospital (Bromley),

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and

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have been transferred to

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. *

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has been transferred to

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 ...

, a new organisation. *

Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup Queen Mary's Hospital is an acute district general hospital in Sidcup, South East London, serving the population of the London Borough of Bexley. It was once administered by Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust established in 1993. Following the disso ...

has been transferred to

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