Barnes Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | East Sheen [1], London, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°28′2″N 0°15′23.3″W / 51.46722°N 0.256472°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS England |
Type | Mental health |
Services | |
Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
History | |
Opened | 1889 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Barnes Hospital, on South Worple Way, East Sheen, [1] in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a hospital managed by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. It provides community and inpatient mental health services. [2]
The hospital was opened in 1889 as The Barnes Isolation Hospital. [3] Its original purpose was to treat and care for patients with infectious diseases such as diphtheria and scarlet fever. [3] The existing buildings were extensively renovated in 2001 when a new extension was added. [3]
Half of the hospital's site was sold to a residential developer in 2019. In September 2020, plans were approved for a health centre and a Special Educational Needs school on the rest of the site: they are due to open in late 2023. [3] [4]