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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.
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]
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (independent) – Leamington Spa; Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital (independent) – Shrewsbury; Princess Royal Hospital – Telford; The (BMI) Priory Hospital (independent) – Birmingham; Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham – Edgbaston, Birmingham; Queen's Hospital – Burton upon Trent
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]
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]
The hospital was commissioned by the London County Council and was the fourth institution of the Epsom Cluster of Hospitals. [1] It was designed by George Thomas Hine; re-use of existing plans from other asylums allowed the council to pass the plans through the development stage and approval by the Commissioners in Lunacy faster than a new plan.
The hospital seems to have been so-called because of its location to the west of the landscaped parkland formerly associated with Horton Manor (later the Manor Hospital). Although sometimes called an ' asylum ' by urban explorers and the media, [ 1 ] West Park was never officially termed as such, having opened as West Park Mental Hospital in 1923.
Chuter Ede Education Centre in South Shields is named after him. It was formerly a comprehensive school. There are also a ward in Epsom Hospital and a primary school near Newark-on-Trent which bear his name. The Labour Party headquarters in South Shields is at Ede House, opened and named shortly before he ceased to be its MP.