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Epsom Hospital is a teaching hospital in Epsom, Surrey, England. The hospital is situated on Dorking Road 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south east of the centre of Epsom. It is managed by the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust along with the nearby St Helier Hospital.
In 2013, it was discovered that staff at the hospital and the neighbouring St Helier Hospital were accidentally overpaid by £294,000. A spokesman for the Epsom and St Helier trust responded by saying they "actively pursue overpayments via debt collection agencies who have demonstrated a very successful recovery rate." [14]
The Queen Mother visited the hospital in 1963, during the hospital's jubilee year and, in 1987, Diana Princess of Wales opened the new maternity unit. [1] Services were transferred from Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in 1993. [6] St Helier Hospital came under the management of the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in 1999. [7]
The hospital has its origins in a facility established at Pembroke Cottages at Pikes Hill in April 1873. [2] It moved to Hawthorn Place in 1877 and to Alexandra Road in 1889. [ 2 ] Emily Davison died at the hospital after being hit by King George V 's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.
The Horton Light Railway had its origins in a contractor's line (the Ewell & Long Grove Railway) built in 1905 to transport building materials, coal and other supplies for London County Council's Epsom Cluster of psychiatric hospitals in the Horton area to the North-West of the town of Epsom. [1]
St. Ebba's was the third hospital to be built within the Epsom Cluster, opening in 1904.The colony was designed for the London County Council by William C. Clifford Smith and constructed at a cost of £98,000 to house a total of 326 epileptic patients, 60 of whom were female. [1]
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Ashford Hospital & St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Trusts were merged on 1 April 1998. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010. A plan for the Trust to take over Epsom Hospital was abandoned in October 2012 by NHS London board because a financially viable plan for the future of Epsom hospital as part of the merged trust could not be developed. [4]