Fordingbridge Hospital

Fordingbridge Hospital
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Entrance showing Victorian part of hospital
Geography
Coordinates 51°02′47″N 1°47′23″W / 51.046359°N 1.789656°W / 51.046359; -1.789656Coordinates: 51°02′47″N 1°47′23″W / 51.046359°N 1.789656°W / 51.046359; -1.789656
Organisation
Care system NHS
Funding Government hospital
Hospital type Community with Out-patients department
Services
Emergency department No A & E
Beds 21

Fordingbridge Hospital is a small community hospital in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England. The hospital is on the same site as the previous Fordingbridge Infirmary and prior to that the Fordingbridge Workhouse. The buildings are largely original Victorian with a modern ward for inpatients. It is managed by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust based in Calmore, Southampton.[1]

History

In 1885 a Union Workhouse was built on the site in Bartons Road to replace the one in Shaftesbury Road that had been destroyed by fire. The site and buildings cost a little over £9,000 and were built in a simple Queen Anne style which is largely still intact.[2]

In the 1930s the workhouse became a Public Assistance Institution and in 1948 it was incorporated into the newly formed National Health Service, and was then known as Fordingbridge Infirmary.[2]

In the mid 1980s the former Fordingbridge Cottage Hospital, in Highfield House on the Alderholt Road was transferred into a newly built ward on the Fordingbridge Infirmary site. The hospital was then called Fordingbridge Hospital.

The local general practitioners’ medical centre is on the same site.[3]

Services

The hospital today provides 20 beds for older people and has physiotherapy and occupational therapy support. A small outpatient department in the older building accommodates a moderate range of specialities including:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Fordingbridge Hospital". Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse, the Story of an Institution". Fordingbridge. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Fordingbridge Surgery". NHS Choices. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
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