Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Hospital
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
The Clock Tower block
Geography
Location	Gordon Hill, London, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	District General
Affiliated university	None
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	509
History
Founded	c. 1948
Links
Website	https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/
Lists	Hospitals in England

Chase Farm Hospital is a hospital in Gordon Hill, near Enfield, north London, run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as part of the British National Health Service.

The oldest part of the hospital (the "clock tower" building) was formerly part of a children's home. Newer buildings on the site include the Highlands Block, built in part replacement of the local Highlands Hospital which closed in 1993. In 1999 the hospital became part of the Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Hospitals Trust.

Apart from the acute hospital, the grounds also contain a general adult mental health unit managed by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust, Chase Village (a home for the mentally handicapped and mentally ill), Kings Oak private hospital, a medium-secure psychiatric unit, and services by Enfield Primary Care NHS Trust. The site contains the North London Forensic Service, the forensic psychiatric service covering most of north London (also part of the Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust) and Radio Enfield. Some of the land is also being developed by builders as new homes. A new low-secure psychiatric unit is proposed and work is due to start in 2015 if approved by the local planning committee.

A public consultation was carried out during 2007 on reorganising services between Chase Farm Hospital and Barnet Hospital. One option would have transformed Chase Farm to a 'community hospital' with inpatient and major emergency care transferred to Barnet. The other option concentrated on planned care at Chase Farm, with maternity and other services concentrated at Barnet. The proposals were intended to maximise clinical effectiveness given limited human and financial resources; however, they also predicated a substantial investment in community health provision (which never came to pass). The local NHS Primary Care Trusts determined at the end of this consultation (which had only a 2% response rate from the local population) to proceed with 'Option 2'.