The hospital is managed by the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

[1] The Regional Health Board agreed to close Darenth in 1973, but the last patients did not leave until 1988.

[2] They were designed by Nightingale Paulley Associates and built by Carillion[3] at a cost of £94 million.

[4] The new hospital, which replaced the services previously provided at West Hill Hospital, Dartford and Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, was officially opened by Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health, on 14 December 2000.

[5] A new on-site heart centre was opened on 2 January 2007.