The hospital has its origins in a sanatorium created at Oakwood Hall for soldiers gassed in the trenches.

[1] A modern hospital was built on the Oakwood Hall estate between 1972 and 1978.

[1] The hospital was featured in Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS?

an Open University BBC series shown on BBC2 in January 2007.

[2] An updated urgent and emergency care centre was opened in 2017.