Maidstone Hospital

Maidstone Hospital is a hospital in Barming, Maidstone, England. It is managed by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.HistoryThe hospital opened in 1983 on a greenfield site adjacent to the now defunct Oakwood Hospital with the intention of replacing the general and accident and emergency services of the ageing West Kent hospital in Marsham Street Maidstone. The development includes a landing pad for the Kent Air Ambulance.Extra wings have been added since the hospital opened, including a self-contained orthopaedic unit and new Eye, Ear and Mouth Unit in 2003 (replacing the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic that was based at Maidstone Ophthalmic Hospital (now closed) in Maidstone town centre) and the Peggy Wood Breast Care Centre in 2004.The Kent Oncology Centre is partly housed on this site. The specialist centre provides cancer services for the whole of Kent and also Hastings and Rother. The hospital also has a £2m Emergency Care Centre, which was one of the first of its kind in the country to offer full A&E services, a GP out-of-hours service and a walk-in centre under one roof.The hospital has appeared in the nationally recognised 40 Top Hospitals programme for four years running for its high standards of clinical care.