North Middlesex University Hospital

Name :

North Middlesex University Hospital

Address  :

Sterling Way

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

N18 1QX

Phone  :

020 8887 2000

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

firstname.lastname@nmh.nhs.uk

Description

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust operates a busy acute general hospital serving the communities of the London Boroughs of Enfield and Haringey and surrounding areas It is located in Edmonton on the south side of the North Circular Road and on the EnfieldHaringey border It serves a diverse and in places highly dependent population of approximately a quarter of a million people The other local secondary acute care providers are Barnet and Chase Farm Whipps Cross the Whittington and the Royal Free Hospitals

History

Hospital History
The North Middlesex is currently celebrating its first centenary having provided health services to local people in Enfield since 1910

It began as a workhouse that provided support to the poorest in the parishes of Edmonton Enfield and Hornsey


The first medical director was Mr Hammond His claim to fame was that he took John Keats on as his apprentice in 1809 when Keats was just 14 John Keats had a fiery temper and after two years left his apprenticeship to be a doctor at Guys Hospital Keats finally decided to give up medicine moved to Italy and wrote some of the worlds greatest poems

Due to increasing demand for medical help the workhouse became a hospital called Edmonton Union Infirmary It had 12 wards each with 28 beds The Infirmary had just two ambulances by 1912

During World War 1 the infirmary became known as the Edmonton Military Hospital It provided care to wounded soldiers and civilians and towards the end of the war it had nearly 2000 beds to treat casualties The hospital suffered extensive bomb damage during times of war but never ceased to provide treatment to those that needed it

One of our most celebrated doctors Charles Coward was a sergeant major in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War He smuggled himself into Auschwitz concentration camp and organised the escape of 400 prisoners Charles Coward Ward is named in his honour

He was the only English soldier to be accidentally awarded the Iron Cross by Germany During one escape attempt he was injured The Germans began to empty a barn and Charles hid in the hay The Germans took injured Germans out of the barn and Charles laid on one of the stretchers A high ranking German soldier gave Charles an Iron Cross thinking he was a fellowcountryman

The hospital was renamed the North Middlesex in 1920 It has been expanded since the war with a new outpatients building opened by HRH Princess Margaret in 1960 and the development of the Tower Block in 1968

The pound123 million hospital development opened to patients in June 2010 and is the largest investment in the hospitals history It houses a new AampE department critical care unit outpatients department imaging centre eight operating theatres and five inpatient wards