Memorial Hospital, Woolwich

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Memorial Hospital, Woolwich
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Memorial Hospital, Woolwich
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Location within Greenwich
Geography
Location Shooter's Hill, London
Coordinates 51°28′08″N0°03′55″E / 51.4689°N 0.0654°E / 51.4689; 0.0654
Organisation
Care system NHS England
Services
Emergency department No
History
Opened1925
Links
Website oxleas.nhs.uk

The Memorial Hospital, Woolwich (sometimes also called the Greenwich Memorial Hospital) is a hospital situated on Shooter's Hill in southeast London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Today run by the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, it mainly functions as a day centre for the elderly while also offering facilities for psychiatric patients.

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History

Hall of Remembrance within the hospital Memorial Hospital war memorial, Woolwich.jpg
Hall of Remembrance within the hospital

After the First World War, a fund was set up to raise the anticipated £50,000 cost of the new hospital building to be a lasting memorial for the war dead from the local area and to replace the Woolwich and Plumstead Cottage Hospital. [1] [2] The site selected was Telegraph Field (so named as it was once used as a semaphore station). [2]

In 1925 the Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone and, in 1927, the 112-bed Woolwich and District Hospital Association Cottage Hospital was officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). [3] 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 Hospital. In 1948, it joined the National Health Service as a general hospital. For some years in the 1960s it specialised in surgery, before transferring medical beds to the nearby Brook General Hospital and becoming a geriatric hospital in the 1970s. [2]

Since at least 2005, it has been run by the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, [4] and mainly functions as a day centre for the elderly while also offering facilities for psychiatric patients. [5]

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References

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