Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital

Details

Name :

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital

Address  :

St Peters Road

Town  :

Margate

State  :

Kent

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

CT9 4AN

Phone  :

01843 225544

Fax  :

01843 220048

Web URL  :


Description

The hospital has recently benefitted from a major development and refurbishment programme with new facilities including a stateoftheart cancer unit an additional operating theatre new childrens ward new special care baby unit and outpatients building The maternity department has also been refurbished with extra facilities The hospital is home to a stateoftheart heart centre containing a pound36 million operating theatre for specialist diagnostic procedures and uptodate facilities for the hospitals cardiology department Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital is part of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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