Crawley Hospital
Crawley Hospital
Crawley Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Crawley, West Sussex, England. Since 2006 it has been part of the Sussex Community NHS Trust, with some services provided by the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Location
The hospital sits in the West Green area near Crawley town centre.
History
- In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, local care was provided by a small cottage hospital and expanded over time.
- A larger district hospital was built at West Green in the 1930s.
- With Crawley chosen as a new town after World War II, a big new hospital was planned. Construction began around 1960, and the first building opened in 1961–62, with extensions in the late 1960s and in 1981.
- It originally offered outpatient care, an Accident and Emergency department, and a maternity unit.
- In the 1990s, funding cuts and moves of services to East Surrey Hospital led to Crawley being downgraded to sub-acute status.
- In 1998 the hospital’s NHS Trust merged with East Surrey Hospital’s Trust; many A&E and maternity services were moved there.
- By 2004 Crawley had cancer and children’s services, and in July 2004 a 24-hour Walk-in Centre opened. In 2007 this became an Urgent Treatment Centre. In 2008 paediatric surgery moved to East Surrey Hospital.
Ambulance services
An ambulance station was built in 1963 on Exchange Road and later moved to West Green; it is now run by the South East Coast Ambulance Service.
Architecture
The hospital was designed by the Yorke Rosenberg Mardall partnership. It is a Modernist three- to four-storey concrete building with dark steel, white tiles, red bricks and large areas of glass.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 10:41 (CET).