Goodmayes Hospital is a mental health facility in

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in the

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. It is managed by the North East London NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The site selected had previously been occupied by Blue House Farm. The hospital, which was designed by Lewis Angell using a Compact Arrow layout and built by Leslie and Co, opened as the West Ham Borough Asylum in August 1901. It became West Ham Mental Hospital in 1918 and a major expansion of the hospital was completed in February 1934. Dr James Harvey Cuthbert, who served as the hospital superintendent, was a pioneer of

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in the late 1930s. The hospital, which was badly bombed during the

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, joined the

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as Goodmayes Hospital in 1948. Part of the site was released in the early 1990s to allow the King George Hospital to be built.

Teaching

The hospital provides clinical placements in psychiatry for medical students from

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Patient entertainment

In November 2015 the hospital's radio station, The Jumbo Sound, suffered major equipment damage following a radiator bursting and its subsequent humidity forcing the station off-air. Radio services resumed in April 2016 as Bedrock Radio Goodmayes reusing the studio space for localised programmes, as of 2019 The Goodmayes Hospital Studios were closed by request of the Trust. Bedrock Radio is available on the wards of Goodmayes Hospital.

Transport

The hospital is served by

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routes 173, 362, EL3 and 396. The nearest railway stations are

on the

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, with services provided by the

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, and Newbury Park on the Central line.

References

External links

Trust website

Goodmayes Hospital
on the NHS website
Inspection reports
from the

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