Queen Mary's Hospital for Children is the Trust's dedicated children's hospital, based at the St Helier Hospital site.
Queen Mary's Hospital for Children has been a long standing landmark in the Carshalton area and has cared for thousands of children since it first opened its doors in 1909.
Back then, the hospital was known as the Children's Infirmary and was situated in Carshalton Beeches. Queen Mary became the hospital's patron in 1914 and it was renamed after her visit in 1915.
In 1959, when the hospital began providing care for children with special needs, it became the first comprehensive children's hospital in the UK. With advance in medicine and a consequent reduction in admissions, and how long children need to be in hospital, the hospital shrank in size and moved to the St Helier Hospital site in 1993.
