Thorpe Coombe Hospital

Thorpe Coombe Hospital is a psychiatric unit and former maternity hospital in Walthamstow, north-east London, and part of North East London NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The hospital was opened as a maternity hospital in 1934, making use of part of a mansion which had been owned by Octavius Wigram. It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and inpatient service psychiatric hospital.

Never a large hospital (as a maternity hospital it had 70 beds), today it predominately houses administrative staff: it is the base for the local community mental health team. It does however still offer some inpatient service, which comprises two wards for elderly patients with mental health problems.

See also

• Healthcare in London
• List of hospitals in England

References

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/essex/user_1_article_2.shtml

External links

• Thorpe Coombe Hospital at North East London Foundation [MH] NHS Trust.