Editing Sidcup (section)

== Healthcare ==
Sidcup Cottage Hospital was opened in 1882 in Birkbeck Road, Sidcup.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Sidcup Cottage Hospital |url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/sidcup.html |access-date=28 January 2024 |website=Lost Hospitals of London}}</ref> The building soon became too small and new premises were opened on the corner of Birkbeck and Granville Road in 1890.<ref name=":0" /> The premises became financially unviable and closed in 1974.<ref name=":0" /> The building was demolished and Sidcup Health Centre, now known as the Barnard Medical Practice was erected in the site.<ref name=":0" />

Notable staff included: 

* Alice Fortune Hodgson (1881-1942), Matron from 1913<ref>Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.21, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.21, April 1914, 43; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London</ref> until at least September 1939.<ref name=":1">Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)</ref><ref>Hodgson, Alice Fortune, Register of Nurses, General Part 1922, 146; The General Nursing Council for England and Wales; The Nursing Registers, 1898–1968 [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 14 September 2018]. </ref><ref>Hodgson, Alice F., RG101/1244H; 1939 England and Wales Register for Chislehurst and Sidcup, Kent; The National Archives, Kew [Available at: www.ancestry.co.uk, accessed on 14 September 2018]</ref> Hodgson trained at [[Royal London Hospital|The London Hospital]] under Matron [[Eva Luckes]] between 1903-1905.<ref name=":1" /> She remained there as a private nurse, undertook her [[midwifery]] training, and worked as a staff nurse before she left in 1908.<ref name=":1" /> As Matron Hodgson and the nursing staff were present when a long term in patient was [[Confirmation|confirmed]] into the [[Church of England]] by the [[Bishop of Rochester]] in 1931.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=28 March 1931 |title=Confirmation Service in Hospital |journal=Gloucester Journal |pages=6 |via=The British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

[[Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup|Queen Mary's Hospital]] was opened in 1917 with 300 beds in a number of wooden huts. Until 1925 it was the central military hospital for the reconstructive surgery of war veterans, led by [[Harold Gillies|Sir Harold Gillies]] The original hospital closed in 1929, being reopened  as a general hospital in 1930 by [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], after whom it was named. A new building was opened in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating 100 years of QMH |url=https://qmh.oxleas.nhs.uk/news/celebrating-100-years-queen-marys-hospital-sidcup/ |website=Oxleas NHS Trust |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Queen Mary's Hospital |url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/queenmarysidcup.html |website=Lost Hospitals of London}}</ref> Since 2013 it has been managed by the [[Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Queen Mary's Hospital |url=https://qmh.oxleas.nhs.uk/ | website=Oxleas NHS Trust |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>