Warwick Hospital

Warwick Hospital is on Lakin Road on the west of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. Together with Stratford Upon Avon hospital they form the South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust which employs over 2,200 people and serves around 270,000.

There have been at least three other hospital sites in Warwick before they moved onto the present site. The earliest known one was in the church during the reign of King Henry I. The second was John The Baptist's Hospital which was set up in the time of Henry II. The third, still standing, was the Lord Leycester Hospital built in the times of Richard II. It is now been converted into almshouses for war veterans.

The modern history of the hospital is linked closely with that of the town's poorhouse, as was that of many European hospitals. The first hospital on the Union Road (now Lakin Road) site was built in 1848 next to the poorhouse. It was extended in 1857 and 1876 with a chapel and mortuary following in 1883. In 1903 a new hospital was built and in 1930 the poorhouse became part of the hospital too. Parts of the current hospital date from 1903. The most recent major redevelopments include a re-vamp of the accident and emergency department in 2001, a new outpatients department in 2005 and a birthing pool in 2007.