Darent Valley Hospital

Darent Valley Hospital
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Darent Valley Hospital
Shown in Kent
Geography
Location Dartford, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°26′6″N 0°15′30″E / 51.43500°N 0.25833°E / 51.43500; 0.25833Coordinates: 51°26′6″N 0°15′30″E / 51.43500°N 0.25833°E / 51.43500; 0.25833
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type District General
Affiliated university King's College London
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 478
History
Founded 2000
Links
Website http://www.dvh.nhs.uk
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Darent Valley Hospital is a 478-bed, acute district general hospital in Dartford, Kent, England. The hospital has an Emergency Department. The hospital is run by the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

History

The hospital, which was built to replace Joyce Green Hospital, stands on the site of the former Darenth Park Hospital, founded by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as "Darenth School" in 1878. The Regional Health Board agreed to close Darenth in 1973, but the last patients did not leave until 1988. The vast Victorian complex was then demolished.[1]

The new buildings were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 1997, the first hospital project to use this form of procurement.[2] They were designed by Nightingale Paulley Associates and built by Carillion[3] at a cost of £94 million.[4] The new hospital opened in September 2000, to replace the services previously provided at West Hill Hospital, Dartford and Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford. A new on-site heart centre was opened on 2 January 2007.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Darenth Park Hospital". ezitis.myzen.co.uk. June 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "The PFI contract for the new Dartford and Gravesham Hospital". National Audit Office. 1999. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Darent Valley Hospital: The PFI contract in action". National Audit Office. 10 February 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 3 July 1999. p. 49. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "NHS Finances". Hansard. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
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