Worthing Hospital
| Worthing Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Worthing, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | District General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | approx 500 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1829 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.westernsussexhospitals.nhs.uk |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Coordinates: 50°49′00″N 0°21′51″W / 50.8168°N 0.3643°W
Worthing Hospital is a medium-sized District General Hospital (DGH) located in Worthing, West Sussex, England. It has approximately 500 beds. It provides a full range of general acute hospital services including A&E, maternity, outpatients, day surgery and intensive care. It is also home to the West Sussex Breast Screening service. The hospital is now run by Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester. It was previously run by Worthing & Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust, which merged with the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust in April 2009. In July 2013 it became a Foundation Trust.
The hospital is located just north-east of Worthing town centre, between Homefield Park and Beach House Park.
Worthing's first hospital was a dispensary created in 1829 in Ann Street. A new dispensary was set up in 1845 in Chapel Road, which when enlarged in 1860 became known as the Worthing and Dispensary. The Worthing Infirmary and Dispensary moved to the current site in Lyndhurst Road in 1882 and was given the name Worthing Hospital in 1902. The Princess Royal opened the hospital's new East Wing in 1998.
In 2001 a £1.3m Children’s Centre opened, enabling almost all children’s healthcare needs to be met under one roof.
The hospital was threatened with downsizing or closure as part of the NHS Strategic Health Authority's 'Fit for the Future' proposal. A series of marches and protest events were held in both Worthing and Chichester against the plans. In June 2008, the West Sussex Primary Care Trust Board recommended that Worthing Hospital be the 'major general hospital' for West Sussex and that St Richard's Hospital in Chichester be downgraded. The recommendation is that services should be centralised at Worthing and moved away from St Richard's Hospital. In October 2008, the Trust Boards of Worthing and Southlands NHS Trust and the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust agreed ‘in principle’ to a merger. The merger went ahead and formed one organisation called 'Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust' which manages St Richard's, Worthing and Southlands hospitals.
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