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The total raised from parking fees was £254 million. A survey of 7,800 people found 86% said parking added to the stress of their hospital visit and they described the fees as a "rip-off", "extortionate" and "astronomical". Car parking fees were an issue in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. [4]
In April 2009 three NHS Trusts merged, those of Queen Mary's Sidcup, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Bromley Hospitals as the multi-site South London Healthcare NHS Trust. [3] In November 2010 the hospital's A & E Department temporarily closed along with the maternity services in the Kent Women's Wing.
The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine and opened as the Heath Asylum on 19 September 1898 . [2] Its name was changed to Bexley Mental Hospital in 1918, and it was also known as the Bexley Asylum [3] [4] or informally as the Village on the Heath. [2] Building the hospital cost £34,000, and it was designed for 2,000 patients.
Oxleas took over the running of Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup on 1 October 2013 [1] and is investing up to £30million to develop the facilities at the hospital. [2] In 2012, the Special Administrator, Matthew Kershaw of the Department of Health, was requested by the Secretary of State for Health to investigate concerns that South London Healthcare NHS Trust was not a viable concern.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a hospital in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was opened in March 2001 and serves patients from the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley .
Bexley Hospital, Bexleyheath was a cottage hospital on Upton Road in Bexleyheath, founded in 1884 and paid for by the Bexley United Charities. [1] It was previously called the Bexley Cottage Hospital and Provident Dispensar. [2] and the Bexley Cottage Hospital. It was an acute hospital, and it ceased operating as a hospital in 1978. [1]
Sidcup Place is a 16.3-hectare (40-acre) open green space situated between Sidcup High Street and Queen Mary's Hospital. [20] It extends from Frognal House to the east of the hospital, to The Green, an adjacent 0.12 hectares of parkland in front of the Manor House Registry Office, which contains Sidcup's War Memorial. [21]
A "VIP suite", or "wing", is one venue where VIP medicine may be practiced in the hospital setting—indeed, whole floors of a hospital building, at major medical centers, may be dedicated to it. A particular type of formalized and regularized VIP medical practice is known as concierge medicine .