Broomfield Hospital is the general hospital for Chelmsford, England and the surrounding areas. It is the largest within the Mid Essex Hospitals Services Trust and is an 800-bed acute hospital which offers a vast range of services. The world renowned St. Andrew's Centre - a specialist unit for cleft lip and palate, burns and plastic surgery is also located at Broomfield Hospital.
Broomfield Hospital, originally known as Essex County Hospital was o...
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Broomfield Hospital is the general hospital for Chelmsford, England and the surrounding areas. It is the largest within the Mid Essex Hospitals Services Trust and is an 800-bed acute hospital which offers a vast range of services. The world renowned St. Andrew's Centre - a specialist unit for cleft lip and palate, burns and plastic surgery is also located at Broomfield Hospital.
Broomfield Hospital, originally known as Essex County Hospital was opened in 1940 as a hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis patients. It was due to open in 1937, but this was delayed due to the Second World War. Until 1959 all the patients in the 312 beds were male and length of stay ranged from six months to four years. The hospital was soon working to full capacity and was the only centre for chest surgery for pulmonary tuberculosis in Essex. Towards the end of the World War II ar 50 per cent of patients were ex-service men. The Hospital's first physician superintendent and administrator was Dr William...
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