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(D) HOSPITALS
Present Facilities.
Most of the hospitals in, or serving this district are in the region
covered by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and
are controlled and administered by two Hospital Management Committees.
(a) Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee:—
Edgware General Hospital 647 beds and 64 maternity cribs
Hendon District Hospital 63 beds
Colindale Hospital 205 beds
West Hendon Hospital 112 beds
Bushey Maternity Hospital 36 lying-in and 14 ante-natal
beds
Stanmore Cottage Hospital 10 beds
Roxbourne Hospital 50 beds
Oxhey Grove 42 beds
(b) Harefield and Northwood Hospital Management Committee:—
Harrow Hospital 122 beds
Pinner, Northwood and
District Hospital 36 beds
Mount Vernon Hospital and
Radium Institute 427 beds
Future Development.
Generally speaking, the Borough of Harrow is very poorly provided
for in the terms of hospital beds. The only general hospital within its
boundaries is Harrow Hospital at Roxeth Hill, which with its 122 beds
has done and still is doing yeoman work in providing for some of the
hospital bed needs of the district. This small hospital cannot possibly
rope with all the local needs for hospital treatment and as a result,
Harrow residents have had to obtain such treatment in the general
hospitals at Edgware and Mount Vernon. The need to develop the
hospital service for the part of the Harrow and Wembley district centring
on Northwick Park with a population of nearly 150,000 has been recognised
for many years. At one time it was planned that the new Charing
Cross Teaching Hospital be established in this Area. However, this plan
was abandoned, when it was finally decided to build the new teaching
hospital on the site of Fulham Hospital and the responsibility of providing
hospital beds for this district's needs was taken up by the North West
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. The Board started to plan a
District Hospital and then the opportunity of collaborating with the
Medical Research Council presented itself, with the result that in 1961 the
Minister announced that the District Hospital would be established in
association with a Clinical Medical Centre under the aegis of the Medical
Research Council.