St Helier Hospital

Details

Name :

St Helier Hospital

Address  :

Wrythe Lane

Town  :

Carshalton

State  :

Surrey

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

SM5 1AA

Phone  :

0208 296 2000

Fax  :

020 8641 4546

Web URL  :


Description

St Helier Hospital is a large general teaching hospital in southwest London which offers the full range of acute services for adults and children Queen Marys Hospital for Children shares the St Helier site

St Helier Hospital has a 24hour Accident and Emergency Department a comprehensive range of diagnostic facilities within pathology and radiology including MRI and CT scanning ultrasound and vascular diagnostic services and a range of outpatient facilities It also undertakes all the emergency surgery in the Trust The renal unit provides acute renal care and dialysis and is integrated with the St Georges Hospital transplantation programme
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