St Peter's Hospital

Details

Name :

St Peter's Hospital

Address  :

Guildford Road

Town  :

Chertsey

State  :

Surrey

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

KT16 0PZ

Phone  :

01932 872 000

Fax  :

01932 723 821

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Colon & Rectal Surgeon
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • ENT
  • Gastro-enterology
  • General Surgeon
  • Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Neurologist
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Pain Management
  • Pathology Lab
  • Podiatry
  • Urology
  • Vascular Surgeon

Description

St Peters Hospital Chertsey is situated in greenbelt parkland between Woking and Chertsey near junction 11 of the M25 It is 30 miles south west of central London and 10 miles from Heathrow Airport

The main centres of population served by the hospital are Woking Weybridge Chertsey Staines and Walton on Thames Originally St Peters Hospital was built to serve casualties of the Second World War Over the years the Hospital has been rebuilt developed and extended to include maternity services a departmentclinic area and a new theatre complex

In the early 1990s the Duchess of Kent Wing which includes the Post Graduate Education Centre and modern wellequipped wards was opened A new AampE ITU and Orthopaedic Unit opened in the Summer of 1998 and a pound15m upgrading of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was opened in 2005 In 2006 two new wards were built onto the Duchess of Kent Wing
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