Amersham Hospital
Amersham Hospital is located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. It is one of three hospitals in the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
| Amersham Hospital | |
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| Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | |
 Amersham Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Coordinates | 51.6629°N 0.6214°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | National Health Service |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
History
An infirmary, which replaced the limited medical facilities in the local workhouse, was built at a cost of £3,400 with 34 beds and opened in 1906.[1] It was renamed St Mary's Hospital in 1924 and extended in 1929.[1] The site, which was further extended by wooden huts during the Second World War, became the Amersham General Hospital in 1948.[1]
A new building to accommodate out-patients and casualties was opened in 1959, a new geriatric block was opened in 1967 and a new suite of operating theatres was opened in 1983.[1] The Haleacre unit, which is guarded by high metal fencing and visibly secure fixtures and fittings inside and provides in-patient care for mentally ill people,[2] opened in 1992.[1]
A redevelopment scheme over much of the site was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in the late 1990s. The construction work was carried out by Taylor Woodrow and completed in 2000 as part of a scheme across the South Buckinghamshire hospitals at a cost of some £45 million.[3][4]
See also
References
- "Amersham Hospital". Lost hospitals of Lonson. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "Haleacre mental health unit could be closed". Bucks Free Press. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- "NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 3 July 1999. p. 49. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- "First private hospitals for NHS". The Independent. 27 November 1995. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
