History of queen alexandra hospital portsmouth

For other uses, see Queen Alexandra Hospital (disambiguation).

General hospital near Portsmouth, England

Hospital in Hampshire, England

The Queen Alexandra Hospital (commonly known as QA Hospital,^[2]QAH or simply QA) is a large NHS hospital in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Located in Cosham, it is run by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and has a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit attached.

History

Early history

Originally a military hospital, The Queen Alexandra (named after Alexandra of Denmark) was built between 1904 and 1908 to replace an earlier hospital which stood in Lion Street in Portsea, Portsmouth.^[3] The original buildings were of red brick construction,^[3] and the site was in a largely rural area, linked to Portsmouth and the surrounding villages (now suburbs) by a tram service.^[3]

The demilitarisation of the hospital began in 1926 when it was handed to the Ministry of Pensions, to