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Hospital

Buckland Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
Dover Union Workhouse Infirmary to 1930, Dover Institution (1930-1943), the County Hospital (1943-1948)
Address
Coombe Valley Road, Dover, CT17 0LG
Previous Locations
Street previously known as Union Road
Current Trust
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust
Previous Trusts
South Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, Kent and Canterbury Hospitals Trust, Thanet Healthcare NHS Trust
Foundation Year
1836
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
South East Metropolitan
Management Committee (1948-1974)
South East Kent
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South East Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South East Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
South East Kent
District Authority (Post-1982)
South East Kent
Pre-1974 County
Kent
Post-1974 County
Kent
Post-1996 County
Kent

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority, Poor Law
Pre-1948 information
Casualty hospital during World War II, including British and foreign military (inc German) patients
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
General, Military
Post-1948
Acute, Geriatric, Other

Other information

There is a history of the hospital, South Kent Hospitals: Buckland Hospital, A Brief History (1995) and an article by J G Harland, ;Buckland Hospital, Dover' in Bygone Kent Vol 19 no 4 Apr 1998

Record locations

  • East Kent Archives Centre

    Record types

    Administrative
    1950 - 1974
    General
    1950 - 1958
    Estates
    1974 - 1974
    Clinical
    1963 - 1964

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Patient records consist of one volume of particulars of patients on the Eye Ward/Dept and Astley Ward