Fordingbridge Hospital is a small community hospital in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England. The hospital closed to admissions in September 2023.
History
The hospital has its origins in the Union Workhouse built on a site on Bartons Road in 1885.[a] The site cost a little over £9,000 and the buildings were erected in the Queen Anne style.[1] In the 1930s the facility became a Public Assistance Institution and in 1948 it joined the National Health Service as Fordingbridge Infirmary for the Chronic Sick.[1]
After the Fordingbridge Cottage Hospital at Highfield House on Alderholt Road closed, its services were transferred to the Bartons Road site in 1984,[2] and a modern facility, known as Ford Ward, opened on the Bartons Road site, which itself became known as Fordingbridge Hospital.[3]
After failing to maintain staffing levels, the hospital closed to admissions in September 2023.[4]
Services
The hospital provides 20 beds for older people and has physiotherapy and occupational therapy support. A small outpatient department in the older building accommodates a moderate range of specialities including: podiatry, ear, nose and throat services, audiology, speech and language therapy, continence service, dermatology services, stroke clinic services and dietitian services.[3][5]
Notes
- ^ Replacing an earlier workhouse in Shaftesbury Road that had been destroyed by fire
References
- ^ a b Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse, the Story of an Institution". Fordingbridge. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ "Hospital closures". UK Parliament. 8 December 1986. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Fordingbridge Hospital". Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ "Fordingbridge Hospital future uncertain as Ford Ward closes admissions". 9 September 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Fordingbridge Hospital". NHS Choices. Retrieved 22 April 2013.