Royal South Hants Hospital

Royal South Hants Hospital
Shown in Southampton
Geography
Location	Bevois Valley, Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°54′45″N 1°23′48″W / 50.9126°N 1.3968°W / 50.9126; -1.3968Coordinates: 50°54′45″N 1°23′48″W / 50.9126°N 1.3968°W / 50.9126; -1.3968
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Community hospital
Affiliated university	University of Southampton
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	332 (originally)
History
Founded	1835
Links
Website	www.royalsouthhantshospital.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Royal South Hants Hospital, known locally as "The RSH", is a Community Health Campus in Southampton. The buildings and facilities are managed by NHS Property Services Ltd. Service Providers who operate at the site include: Solent NHS Trust, Care UK, In Health, Solent Medical Services and Alliance Medical. It was previously managed by Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (now University Hospital Southampton) and still retains a few University Hospital departments. The campus also hosts some specialist visiting clinics from Southampton General and other Hospitals and occasionally visiting mobile services for Breast Screening and the National Blood Transfusion Service.

The hospital was founded as the Royal South Hampshire Infirmary in 1835, and relocated several times before settling at its current location in the heart of the Nicholstown New Town area of Southampton. The foundation stone was laid on 10 July 1843, and the hospital opened on its present site in 1844.

Previous locations; St Mary Street (1838–1844) & Fanshawe Street (1844?-c.1978)

In 1851, donations from doctors Joseph and William Bullar funded additional wards for the hospital, named the Bullar Wards. The hospital obtained its current name in 1965, and was funded by public subscription as part of a wave of voluntary hospitals throughout the country. The hospital chapel was built in 1857, and is now a grade II listed building.

In 1868 a new wing, named the Eyre Crabbe Wing and housing 36 beds, was erected. The Crabbe wards are located on the East side of the hospital campus. In 1896, another new wing, containing a further two wards, operating theatres, cottages to house patients with infectious diseases and a mortuary were added at a cost of £29 000. This new wing was opened on 7 February 1900 by Princess Henry of Battenberg, and named the Victoria Jubilee Wing.

With the formation of the National Health Service in 1948, the management of the RSH was transferred to the new public service.

In 1979, the Department of Psychiatry building, an inpatient psychiatric facility, was built along with residential accommodation for healthcare staff. This closed in 2010 and has been replaced by Antelope House. In the same year, the Outpatients Centre building was opened, modelled on the Mayo Clinic in the United States. In 1971 the RSH housed 332 beds and treated 8000 inpatients and 173 000 outpatients.