The private facilities at Harefield Hospital are located in the main building, on the left hand side. The outpatients' area is on the ground floor and the inpatients' ward, Juniper Ward, is on the second floor.
It's easy to drive to Harefield Hospital using the directions below. Check your route using a route planner such as Google Maps.
When you enter the hospital grounds, the patients and visitors' car park is on the right hand side. The car park is managed by NCP and operates on a 'pay and display' system. Daily charges are displayed at pay points in the car parks and are in line with charges at other NHS hospitals. Charges apply from Monday to Sunday, including bank holidays. The machine only accepts coins, so please bring enough change.
Plan your journey to Harefield Hospital using our tips below. Trains run from London Marylebone to Denham railway station 2. From there, you can take a 5-minute taxi ride to the hospital book it in advance , or catch a bus see below. Proceed into the hospital's grounds for parking. There is substantial parking at Harefield Hospital, but the car park can get busy, especially on days with significant outpatients appointments.
It is better to come by public transport if this is an option for you. Harefield's car parks are managed, and a pay and display system operates for both patients and visitors. Hourly charges are clearly displayed on the payment machine and reductions apply for longer stays. We have 13 parking bays designated for disabled drivers only. Disabled drivers are not expected to make any payment for using these, or other spaces if these are full.
If you have difficulty finding a car parking space, please go to main reception and ask for them to contact the car parking attendant or security. For all on-site car parking queries, please contact main reception. Please check that your Oyster card or Freedom Pass is valid for your journey before travelling.
Please note that you are unable to use cash to pay for your bus fare. Find out more about cash-free buses. The nearest underground stations are Northwood, Rickmansworth and Uxbridge. The Sanatorium had its own water supply and generated its own electrivity.
The new buildings were connected with paved roads and there was a new entrance in Hill End Road. New staff accommodation had been built to the far north of the site. The Lodge to the old entrance had been pulled down and the entrance was pedestrianised. Thirteen prefabricated huts of corrugated iron lined with asbestos and with pitched roofs were built. Each contained 24 beds. The huts were heated by three coke stoves - one at each end of the hut and one in the middle.
The Hospital would contain casualty beds. In September , just as the patients had been transferred from St Mary's Hospital, an outbreak of meningococcal meningitis occurred at the Harefield site.
During sixteen more huts were added, made of concrete with flat roofs. An Almoner's Department was established. Little could be done and mortality was high. During the Blitz in air-raid victims in central London were treated at St Mary's Hospital and then bussed out to Harefield.
Later, military cases were flown to Northolt to be transferred to Harefield. Dealing with war casualties, the Hospital enlarged its scope for general and thoracic surgery.
At its peak the Hospital had beds. Patients included Polish servicemen and Free French forces. Later, German naval prisoners-of-war also received treatment. Matron's old wooden bungalow was used as a 'cottage laboratory' by Prof. Alexander Fleming while he studied the effect of penicillin on TB. By penicillin had become generally available for the treatment of TB and other infections. The government had undertaken to provide treatment in Military Units for all servicemen with TB, and one such Unit was established at Harefield.
Located at the north of the site, it had 6 wards with 24 beds in each. Very little cardiac surgery had been possible during the war, but the first thoracic surgeon appointed to the Hospital, Mr Thomas Holmes Sellors , performed the first valvotomy, an operation for the direct relief of pulmonary stenosis in a patient with Fallot's tetralogy a congenital heart defect in December Pioneering surgical techniques were also developed to treat disease and injury of the oesophagus.
A service to treat carcinoma of the oesophagus was established in the late s. It was renamed Harefield Hospital and became a general hospital but still had a Thoracic Surgery Unit, now treating all kinds of chest diseases during the s, as the incidence of TB fell, the TB Clinics were renamed Chest Clinics.
By the s the farm, piggery and kitchen garden had gone. The 'cottage laboratory' had been demolished and TB had all but disappeared.
The Hospital became one of two hospitals the other was Clare Hall Hospital under the control of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board which treated chest diseases, as well as medical and surgical general cases.
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