About us: Mount Vernon Hospital

Rickmansworth Road,
Northwood, HA6 2RN [Google Map]
Tel: 01923 826111

Mount Vernon Treatment Centre

	Mount Vernon Hospital has a modern Diagnostic and Treatment Centre. With its spacious and contemporary design, the Mount Vernon Treatment Centre constitutes a new two-storey building and the existing Princess Christian Unit. The new buildings house four state-of-the-art operating theatres to carry out elective surgery, plus outpatient services, a spacious waiting area and coffee shop.
Open since February 2009, the centre was built after the Trust identified a need to separate non-elective and elective surgery within the area.

Other Services at Mount Vernon

The following services are NOT part of The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:

• East and North Hertfordshire Trust (Cancer Services)
• Mount Vernon Cancer Care
• Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre providing support and information for people affected by cancer. The drop in centre is open: Monday to Friday, 9.30am-1pm & 2pm-4.30pm
• The Royal Free (Plastic Surgery)
• Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital (located in the Care of the Elderly medical block, first floor), is run by Hillingdon Primary Care Trust.

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History of Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon hospital evolved from a general hospital into one providing skilled and specialised services, as well as local acute (medical and surgical) services. Founded in 1860, the North London (later Mount Vernon) Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest arrived in St. Pancras. A new Mount Vernon hospital was opened at Northwood in 1904 and has since recieved a Marie Curie hospital for women cancer patients (1967) and now the Gray laboratory for cancer research.

For more reading: "Hampstead: Public Services", A History of the County of Middlesex:Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 138-45. (Opens in new window)

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