Lewisham Hospital
| University Hospital Lewisham | |
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King's Health Partners Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust |
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The Riverside Building
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 Location within Lewisham
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| Geography | |
| Location |
London, SE13 United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°27′12″N 0°01′02″W / 51.4533°N 0.0172°WCoordinates: 51°27′12″N 0°01′02″W / 51.4533°N 0.0172°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | District General |
| Affiliated university | King's College London |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 450 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
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University Hospital Lewisham (formerly known as Lewisham Hospital) is an acute district general hospital run by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and serving the London Borough of Lewisham. It is now affiliated with King's College London and forms part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre.
It is situated on Lewisham High Street between Lewisham and Catford. The hospital offers a wide range of services including adult and children's Emergency Departments and specialist services including neonatology, paediatric surgery, cystic fibrosis treatment, haemophilia treatment and Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) services. The hospital provides teaching and training for medical staff and gained university status in 1997. The Ladywell Unit on the premises is operated by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
The hospital site has undergone several major alterations in recent years. The most recent was the completion of a major new treatment wing, Riverside, which was officially opened by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in May 2007. This building reflects current thinking about patient care, replacing Nightingale Wards with multiple four-bedded bays. The design also reflects contemporary environmental concerns and was the first major NHS building to generate a proportion of its own power using photovoltaic panels installed on the roof.
The site of the current hospital was originally a workhouse, following the bequest of a house on Rushey Green to Lewisham Parish for the relief of the poor in 1612. When the Lewisham workhouse became overcrowded, a new workhouse building was erected in 1817. The Lewisham Poor Law Union was formed in 1836, and the workhouse was enlarged. This improvement included the building of cholera wards behind the workhouse building.
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