[4] Under the terms of the Local Government Act 1929, it was taken over by Croydon Corporation in April 1932;[5] and then by the National Health Service in July 1948.

Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1966 and a new surgical wing was opened by Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons in May 1985.

[2] More recently, a large building project was the Jubilee Wing opened by John Reid, the Secretary of State for Health, in December 2004.

In a survey conducted in 2017 the trust was rated "worse than expected" over care for women giving birth.

[6] The Acute Medical Unit was opened in 2012; it contains 42 beds and provides rapid assessment and treatment for patients admitted from GPs or A&E.