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A physical rehabilitation session at Queen Mary's Hospital in 1944 Bronze sculpture of Dickie and Sam by Brian Alabaster ARBS outside Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton. The hospital was founded in 1915, primarily by Mary Eleanor Gwynne-Holford as a military hospital to provide care for wounded soldiers. [1]
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Queen Mary Hospital had its foundation stone laid on 10 May 1935 by the governor of Hong Kong, William Peel, and was officially opened on 13 April 1937 by Andrew Caldecott, the then governor of Hong Kong. [4] [5] The hospital was named for Mary of Teck, the widowed queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom.
The Queen's Hospital was opened in prefabricated buildings in the grounds of Frognal House on 18 August 1917. [2] It provided pioneering plastic surgery under the guidance of Sir Harold Gillies to soldiers sustaining facial injuries during First World War. [2] It was re-opened as a general hospital known as Queen Mary's Hospital by Queen Mary ...
Queen Mary became its patron in 1916 and it was granted a royal charter the following year, changing its name to its final one. [ 1 ] The hospital joined the National Health Service under the management of the North East Metropolitan Regional Health Board in 1948. [ 1 ]
The hospital was run by the military until 1922 when it was passed to the Department of Health. [3] [10] The name of the hospital became Queen Mary Hospital. [11] A women's ward (Chisholm Block) opened in 1926 and another men's ward (Rutherford Block) in the 1940s. [6] By the late 1960s most patients had alcoholism or addictions. [3]
Darent Valley Hospital had the highest rate and number of MRSA cases for NHS trusts in England in 2015. There were 14 cases of patients being infected between 1 April 2015 and 29 February 2016. [5] In 2018 it forecast a deficit, for the fourth year in a row.
Queen Mary's Hospital is a large community hospital housed in a state of the art, four-storey building containing all the modern equipment needed to offer the local population and its patients from around the world the latest treatment techniques. The rebuilt hospital was opened in the grounds of the original hospital in February 2006.