Greenwich District Hospital

Greenwich District Hospital was an acute district general hospital situated in the Maze Hill district of Greenwich, London. It was built in the 1960s on the site of St Alfege's Hospital, Greenwich.

In order to build a hospital with a large enough capacity for the requirements of the local population (up to 800 beds) on a small site (less than 8 acres), a single large building was designed - Pevsner described it as "an unusually large enterprise to be undertaken by the Department of Health and Social Security (chief architect: W. E. Tatton Brown)".

The wards were located around the outside of the building, to receive natural light, while other departments such as operating theatres and laboratories were situated in the centre. The engineering services were contained in gaps between the floor and ceiling of each pair of storeys, so that maintenance work could be carried out without disruption to the running of the clinical areas of the hospital. The interior design was based on large, open areas which maximised the use of the available space, and which could be altered to match changing demands. The entire hospital was ventilated artificially to improve air quality.

The hospital closed in 2001, and its services were moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. Some scenes from the film About A Boy were filmed in the closed hospital prior to its demolition in 2006.

An adjacent health centre - described by Pevsner as "an ugly A-frame with forceful raking struts" - remained in operation until 2015 when replacement facilities opened on the site of the former hospital. The health centre has since been demolished.