Kent and Sussex Hospital

Kent and Sussex Hospital
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Kent and Sussex Hospital
Geography
Location	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°8′10.36″N 0°15′34.23″E / 51.1362111°N 0.2595083°E / 51.1362111; 0.2595083Coordinates: 51°8′10.36″N 0°15′34.23″E / 51.1362111°N 0.2595083°E / 51.1362111; 0.2595083
Organisation
Care system	National Health Service
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	District General
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	281
History
Founded	1934
Closed	21 September 2011
Links
Website	http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/your-visit/kent-sussex2.asp
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Kent and Sussex Hospital was a district general hospital located on Mount Ephraim in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England serving the West Kent and East Sussex areas. It closed on 21 September 2011 and was replaced by The Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, nearly three miles from the town.

The hospital provided 281 beds., mostly in "Nightingale" wards, i.e. with rows of beds on either side of the room.

The Kent and Sussex Hospital was built on the site of a mansion called Great Culverden House, designed by Decimus Burton.

The hospital building was designed by Cecil Burns, a local architect, and opened in 1934. The foundation stone had been laid in 1932 by the contemporary Duchess of York, later to become Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The original building was surrounded by lawns on three sides, but the hospital has expanded upwards and outwards several times over the decades. This included the installation of six wartime emergency huts shortly after the hospital's completion; four of these huts were still in use as wards when the hospital closed, on 21 September 2011.

Services available at the hospital prior to its closure included:

Planning permission was granted to redevelop the hospital site for a mix of housing, offices and a school in December 2012. This development is now under construction.