Southlands Hospital is a medical facility based in

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, England, which serves people living in Shoreham itself as well as

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and other towns and villages along the south coast and in the inland areas of West Sussex. It is managed by the

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. The building is served by Brighton & Hove bus routes 2, 59, 59A and 98.

History

The hospital has its origins in an infirmary which was built for the Steyning Poor Law Union Workhouse and which opened in 1835. After the workhouse moved to new premises at Upper Shoreham Road in 1901, the infirmary moved to the new site as well in 1906. The infirmary's medical staff, who became known as the "Southlands Guardians", looked after many wounded patients during the

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. The infirmary became known as the Steyning Institution in 1930 and then became known as the Southlands Hospital in 1933. Many of its beds were given over to the care of injured soldiers during the

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. The hospital joined the

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in 1948. Staff at the hospital assisted in a major incident when a double-decker bus was blown off the Old Shoreham Bridge into the River Adur on 1 January 1949. The main ward block was opened in 1979. After maternity services were transferred to

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, the maternity ward closed on 7 June 1997. The transfer of other in-patient services to other hospitals allowed the old Harness Block to be demolished and the surplus land handed over for residential development in 2016. In 2018 a new eye care unit costing £7.5 million was officially opened by the

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. The hospital became part of

on 1 April 2021 as a result of the merger of

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Worthing Hospital, Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, England and served a population of around 450, ...

and

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