Darent Valley Hospital
History
The hospital, which was built to replace Joyce Green Hospital, stands on the site of the former Darenth Park Hospital, founded by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as "Darenth School" in 1878. The Regional Health Board agreed to close Darenth in 1973, but the last patients did not leave until 1988. The vast Victorian complex was then demolished.
The new buildings were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 1997, the first hospital project to use this form of procurement. They were designed by Nightingale Paulley Associates and built by Carillion at a cost of £94 million. The new hospital, which replaced the services previously provided at West Hill Hospital, Dartford and Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, was officially opened by Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health, on 14 December 2000.
A new on-site heart centre was opened on 2 January 2007.
See also
References
- ^ "Darenth Park Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. June 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ The PFI contract for the new Dartford and Gravesham Hospital. National Audit Office. 1999. ISBN 978-0-10-266199-6. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Darent Valley Hospital: The PFI contract in action". National Audit Office. 10 February 2005. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 3 July 1999. p. 49. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Darent Valley Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "NHS Finances". Hansard. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
