St Martin's Hospital is a mental health facility on Littlebourne Road in

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, England. It is managed by the

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust was formed in April 2006 by a merger between East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust. The trust runs inpatient and community services for those ...

History

The hospital, which was designed by William Joseph Jennings and Gray using a compact arrow layout, opened in 1902. The hospital became Canterbury City Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the

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as St Martin's Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and inpatient services significantly reduced. In February 2019 the Trust announced the sale of one of its older wards to

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for use as social housing with the proceeds being applied to upgrade newer wards.

References

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