Southlands Hospital is a medical facility based in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, which serves people living in Shoreham itself as well as Worthing and other towns and villages along the south coast and in the inland areas of West Sussex.
[2] The hospital has its origins in an infirmary which was built for the Steyning Poor Law Union Workhouse and which opened in 1835.
[3] The infirmary's medical staff, who became known as the "Southlands Guardians", looked after many wounded patients during the First World War.
[3] Staff at the hospital assisted in a major incident when a double-decker bus was blown off the Old Shoreham Bridge into the River Adur on 1 January 1949.
[8] The transfer of other in-patient services to other hospitals allowed the old Harness Block to be demolished and the surplus land handed over for residential development in 2016.