The Benenden Hospital Trust

Description

About Us
Welcome to Benenden Hospital Trust the home of firstclass independent healthcare for people from our local community and the rest of the UK This is an ultraclean modern facility where infection control is rigorously maintained so you can be treated with confidence by experienced consultants in a safe secure wellequipped environment

Youll find all our staff are caring considerate and dedicated to doing all they can to make your stay as comfortable as possible Everyone here is fully committed to excellence in healthcare and we have a continuous programme of improvement to maintain our extremely high standards

Set in 350 acres of farm and woodland in the heart of the Kent countryside Benenden Hospital has 13 modern single beds en suite rooms to complement its 6 bed single sex bays many of which look out onto delightful countryside views

Our location our staff and our professional standards combine to make us the hospital with space and time to care something the patients we treat and the GPs who send them here recognise and value

Benenden Hospital is an independent trust hospital with charitable status It was founded in 1907 and today provides a wide range of consultation diagnostic and treatment services for a large range of medical and surgical specialties all within a modern comfortable wellequipped facility where infection control is of paramount importance

Our patients used to be exclusively Benenden Healthcare Society members But we now warmly welcome those who wish to fund their own treatment directly or through insurance as well as people coming to us as NHS patients through the NHS Choose and Book scheme

History

History of Benenden Hospital
Benenden Hospital was opened in 1907 by the National Association for the Establishment and Maintenance of Sanatoria the aim being to treat postal workers suffering from tuberculosis

The Association was a consortium founded by trade unions and friendly societies and Benenden Healthcare Society formerly the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatoria became a member By 1951 the Association had disbanded and Benenden Healthcare Society took over the sanatorium

With cases of TB declining the Society expanded treatment to include chest complaints and cancer and shortly afterwards an operating theatre surgical wards and an xray department were introduced

Todays modern hospital continues the principle of providing firstclass treatment for a wide range of specialties Although the Societys members are the major users of the facility nonmembers are also welcome

People who wish to fund their own treatment either directly or through insurance and NHS patients directed here by their GP continue to enjoy the high quality care offered at Benenden Hospital in a tradition and ethos stretching back over 100 years