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 London Borough of Bromley, Bromley and Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greenwich. It was ...

, South East London, serving the population of the

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. It was previously 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

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, with other services being provided by

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, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and

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. The Urgent Care Centre has been managed by the Hurley Group since July 2014.

History

The Queen's Hospital was opened in prefabricated buildings in the grounds of Frognal House on 18 August 1917. It provided pioneering plastic surgery under the guidance of Sir Harold Gillies to soldiers sustaining facial injuries during

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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

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and joined the

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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 along with the maternity services in the Kent Women's Wing. Acute services were transferred to the two sister hospitals, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London and the

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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. A fire in a derelict maternity ward was quickly brought under control in August 2015.

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Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup on the NHS website
{{authority control Hospital buildings completed in 1917 Hospital buildings completed in 1974 NHS hospitals in London Buildings and structures in Sidcup

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