Watford General Hospital

Watford General Hospital
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Geography
Location Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District General
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 521
Links
Website www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

Watford General Hospital is a 521-bed acute District General Hospital in Watford, Hertfordshire, operated by West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust along with Hemel Hempstead General Hospital in Hemel Hempstead and the St Albans City Hospital in St Albans.[1]

It was formed at the foundation of the National Health Service of the buildings which were formerly the Watford Workhouse (from 1929, Shrodells Public Assistance Institution).[2] WGH also incorporates the former Peace Memorial Hospital, the services of which were transferred to the Shrodells site from 1965 to 1985 when the Peace Memorial site shut down.[3][4] The former Peace Memorial site is now the Peace Hospice.[4][5]

Singer Geri Halliwell was born there in 1972.[6]

Outline planning permission to redevelop the hospital and create the Watford Health Campus was granted in 2008. Section 106 agreements which will provide £3 million for infrastructure around the Vicarage Road site, including education and transport, were signed on 26 March 2010.[7] In August 2012 Kier Property was selected to build the development.[8] It will take 15 to 20 years to complete.[9]

The hospital is served by buses 10, 320 and 322 to Watford town centre and other places.[10] A new road will be built to connect the hospital to the M1.[11] A new tube station, to be called Watford Vicarage Road, will be provided nearby on the Croxley Rail Link of the Metropolitan line.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "West Herts Hospitals". Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Details: Watford General Hospital (Peace Memorial Wing), Watford". Hospital Records Database. National Archives. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Peace Memorial Hospital". War Memorials Archive. Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Our history". Peace Hospice. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Geri Halliwell, If Only
  7. ↑ "Watford Health Campus closer to reality". Watford Observer. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "Kier Property is to draw up plans for new hospital and hundreds of homes". Watford Observer. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  9. ↑ "First spade hits the ground for the Watford Health Campus road". 23 July 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Watford - Our Services". 2 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  11. ↑ "New hospital road funding hailed as critical stride to Health Campus". Watford Observer. 3 February 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.

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Coordinates: 51°46′58″N 0°11′14″W / 51.78278°N 0.18722°W / 51.78278; -0.18722

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