Erith and District Hospital

Details

Name :

Erith and District Hospital

Address  :

Park Crescent

Town  :

Erith

State  :

Kent

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

DA8 3EE

Phone  :

020 8308 3131

Web URL  :

Not Available

Description

We are a newly formed acute NHS organisation providing a full range of high quality NHS health care to the people of South East London and more specifically to the communities living in the London Boroughs of Bexley Bromley and Greenwich

We are a newly formed acute NHS organisation providing a full range of high quality NHS health care to the people of South East London and more specifically to the communities living in the London Boroughs of Bexley Bromley and Greenwich We serve over a million people employ over 6000 staff and have an annual budget of over pound400million making us one of the largest NHS hospital trusts in the country
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