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St James' Hospital was a healthcare facility in Balham, London that existed between 1910 and 1988. The hospital buildings occupied sites within the boundary of Ouseley Road, Sarsfield Road and St James's Drive (previously named St James's Road) Balham London SW12.
St George's Healthcare incorporates St George's Hospital in Tooting and a full range of community services provided at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, St John's Therapy Centre in Battersea, HMP Wandsworth, health centres and clinics, GP surgeries, schools and in people's homes throughout Wandsworth.
It shares its main hospital site in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, with St George's, University of London, which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research. The hospital has around 1,300 beds and most general tertiary care such as accident and emergency , maternity services and care for older people and children .
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The hospital had 246 beds in 1950. A further 50 beds were opened for fracture cases from St James' Hospital, Balham. [1] In 1974, it came under the control of the Wandsworth, Sutton and East Merton (Teaching) District Health Authority. [1] The hospital was occupied by the staff resisting closure from November 1979 to September 1980. [3]
Queen Mary's Hospital, formerly Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals, is a community hospital in Roehampton in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is run by St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust .
A new radiation therapy unit for cancer treatment was established at the hospital in 2012. [7] The St James's campus was chosen in 2012 as the site for the National Paediatric Hospital, allowing colocation with the adult hospital, and potentially "trilocation" with a future maternity hospital on the same site. [8]
It came under the management of Middlesex County Council in 1888 and was renamed the Wandsworth Asylum. [4] During the First World War it became the Springfield War Hospital and, after the war, it became the Springfield Mental Hospital. [4] A new infirmary block to treat mentally ill patients who were also physically ill opened in July 1932. [4]