Fordingbridge Hospital

Fordingbridge Hospital is a small community hospital in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England. The hospital closed to admissions in September 2023.

Fordingbridge Hospital
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Entrance showing Victorian part of hospital
Location in Hampshire
Geography
Location	Bartons Road Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England
Coordinates	50.92752°N 1.79292°W / 50.92752; -1.79292
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Funding	Government hospital
Type	Community with out-patients department
Services
Emergency department	No
Beds	21
History
Opened	1885
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

The hospital has its origins in the Union Workhouse built on a site on Bartons Road in 1885.^[a] The site cost a little over £9,000 and the buildings were erected in the Queen Anne style.^[1] In the 1930s the facility became a Public Assistance Institution and in 1948 it joined the National Health Service as Fordingbridge Infirmary for the Chronic Sick.^[1]

After the Fordingbridge Cottage Hospital at Highfield House on Alderholt Road closed, its services were transferred to the Bartons Road site in 1984,^[2] and a modern facility, known as Ford Ward, opened on the Bartons Road site, which itself became known as Fordingbridge Hospital.^[3]

After failing to maintain staffing levels, the hospital closed to admissions in September 2023.^[4]

Services

The hospital provides 20 beds for older people and has physiotherapy and occupational therapy support. A small outpatient department in the older building accommodates a moderate range of specialities including: podiatry, ear, nose and throat services, audiology, speech and language therapy, continence service, dermatology services, stroke clinic services and dietitian services.^[3][5]

Notes

1. Replacing an earlier workhouse in Shaftesbury Road that had been destroyed by fire