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Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a hospital in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was opened in March 2001 and serves patients from the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley .
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (since 2010), England; Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (1933–2010) Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, a school in Clifton, Bristol, England
The trust was formed by the acquisition of the acquisition of Queen Elizabeth Hospital by Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust upon the dissolution of South London Healthcare NHS Trust. Despite extensive local opposition and legal challenges in Lewisham, the merger was approved by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt on 26 September 2013. [3]
Memorial Hospital, Woolwich – Woolwich; Miller General Hospital; Orpington Hospital – Orpington; Princess Royal University Hospital – Farnborough; Priory Hospital – Hayes Grove, Bromley (independent) Queen Elizabeth Hospital – Woolwich; Queen Mary's Hospital – Sidcup; St Alfege's Hospital; St Thomas' Hospital – Lambeth
Oxleas took over the running of Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup on 1 October 2013 [1] and is investing up to £30million to develop the facilities at the hospital. [2] In 2012, the Special Administrator, Matthew Kershaw of the Department of Health, was requested by the Secretary of State for Health to investigate concerns that South London Healthcare NHS Trust was not a viable concern.
By 1930 it was known as the Woolwich and District War Memorial Hospital, then (from 1931) the Woolwich and District Hospital Association War Memorial Hospital and (from 1938) the Memorial Hospital. [2] During the Second World War it became a military hospital (in 1944 it had 137 beds), providing back-up facilities for the nearby Royal Herbert ...
A government report in 2012 recommended that three SLHT hospitals should be taken over by nearby NHS trusts and that the University Hospital Lewisham Accident and Emergency unit should close, [14] with A&E patients instead going to the SLHT-run Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich to make that hospital more viable. [15]
The hospital was officially opened by King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra, who was the president of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, in July 1905. [1] [2] [3] In 1907 the Royal Army Medical College opened on the south side of the Tate Gallery. [2] In the First World War it became a general hospital for the British Army. [2]