Hospital type District General Number of beds 478 Care system National Health Service | Phone +44 1322 428100 Date founded 2000 | |
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Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency Address Darenth Wood Rd, Dartford DA2 8DA, UK Affiliated university Canterbury Christ Church University Profiles | ||
Virtual tour of maternity services at darent valley hospital
Darent Valley Hospital is a 478-bed, acute district general hospital in Dartford, Kent, England. The hospital has an Emergency Department. The hospital is run by the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.
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History
The hospital stands on the site of the former Darenth Park Hospital, founded by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as "Darenth School" in 1878. The Regional Health Board agreed to close Darenth in 1973, but the last patients did not leave until 1988. The vast Victorian complex was then demolished.
The new buildings were the first hospital to be procured under a Private Finance Initiative Contract. They were designed by Nightingale Paulley Associates and built by Carillion. The new hospital opened in September 2000, to replace the services previously provided at West Hill Hospital, Dartford and Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford. On 2 January 2007, a new on-site Heart Centre was opened.