Royal South Hants Hospital

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Royal South Hants Hospital
NHS Property Services
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Royal South Hants Hospital
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Shown in Southampton
Geography
Location Bevois Valley, Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 50°54′45″N1°23′48″W / 50.9126°N 1.3968°W / 50.9126; -1.3968
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Community hospital
Affiliated university University of Southampton
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Beds332 (originally)
History
Opened1835
Links
Website www.royalsouthhantshospital.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

The Royal South Hants Hospital, known locally as "The RSH", is a community hospital in Southampton. It is managed by NHS Property Services.

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History

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Mosaic at the hospital

The hospital was founded as the Royal South Hampshire Infirmary in 1835 [1] [2] and moved into its first premises in St Mary Street in 1838. [3] It was initially a Voluntary hospital. [3]

The foundation stone for new premises in Fanshawe Street was laid on 10 July 1843. [4] The hospital opened there in 1844. [2] [3] Joseph and William Bullar, doctors and brothers of children’s author Anne Bullar, funded additional wards for the hospital. These wards, named the Bullar Wards, were completed in 1851. [1] The Eyre Crabbe Wing, located on the east side of the site, was completed in 1868. [1] [5]

In 1896, another new wing, containing a further two wards and some operating theatres, was started, as well as some cottages to house patients with infectious diseases and a mortuary. This new wing was officially opened by Princess Henry of Battenberg on 7 February 1900 and named the Victoria Jubilee Wing. [6]

During World War II, a country home of Lord Mountbatten, the Broadlands, was used as an annexe for the hospital. [7] [8] [9]

The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948. [3] [5] As part of a transfer of mental health services from Knowle Hospital, a psychiatry block was completed in 1979. [5] The block closed in 2009. [5]

On 31 March 2007 management of the hospital was passed to Southampton City Primary Care Trust with several services transferring to Southampton General Hospital and the Princess Anne Hospital. In 2010 [10] a new adult mental health unit called Antelope House was opened on the former Antelope Ground, housing 50 acute beds and 12 psychiatric intensive care beds. [5]

The hospital is heated as part of the Southampton District Energy Scheme network. [11]

Chapel

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Royal South Hants Hospital chapel

St Paul's Chapel was completed in 1857. [1] [5] The chapel fell out of use in 1992. [1] [5] The Chapel is a Grade II listed building, as of 1981. [12]

See also

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  2. 1 2 Crump, Ian (16 July 2023). "How Royal South Hants became the hospital we know today". Southern Daily Echo . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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  6. ↑ "Princess Henry of Battenberg at Southampton". The Times. No. 36060. London. 8 February 1900. p. 7.
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  8. ↑ "Broadlands, Romsey". Sense of Place South East. Hampshire Library & Information Service. Archived from the original on 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ↑ Hicks, India (2024). Lady Pamela: My Mother's Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks. United States: Rizzoli. p. 49. ISBN   9780847828623.
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  11. ↑ "Southampton celebrates 25 years of geothermal District Energy Scheme". Southern Daily Echo . 29 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  12. ↑ "CHAPEL TO THE ROYAL SOUTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL, Non Civil Parish - 1178783 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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