Teddington Memorial Hospital & Community N H S Tru

Teddington Hospital is not an A&E hospital, and you are unlikely to be visiting relatives here. Instead, this is a minor injuries walk in unit (though obviously, some can’t walk in, as they’ve injured their feet). This place has become, however, so much more.
Since it has become increasingly difficult to get an appointment at local doctor’s surgeries, it has become a bit of an emergency surgery — where people go when they have an ailment or injury and are finding it impossible to see their own GP.
Especially on weekends, there can be quite a long wait — over 3 hours sometimes. You’ll be seen by a triage nurse first, then a ‘normal’ nurse, and, depending on the injury or ailment, you may well be treated by the nurse, or you may be asked to wait to see a doctor.
For the most part, I have found the care there to be friendly yet professional and efficient. I have never visited there for my own problems. but I have taken my daughter there a couple of times, and my husband has also visited a few times — most recently for cellulitus.
There is an onsite pharmacy, and a small (very small) and bumpy car park. The building is quite an old and imposing one, and there is a memorial at the front for our war dead.
I do hope this hospital survives rounds of NHS cuts. It provides an invaluable service to the local ‘walking wounded’, thus sparing the two local A&E hospitals (West Middlesex and Kingston) some less serious conditions.

OK, so i understand that if anything happens to you that requires a hospital trip, you are probably not going to think, «humm, which one to I want to go to?», but still, I want to give Teddington hospital props because they pretty much saved my life a few years ago.
First of all, and importantly, this is NOT an A+E ward. If your injuries are really serious don’t go here. This is a walk in centre for minor injuries, burns and illnesses. emergency contraception and x-​rays. You don’t need an appointment to come here. Which is good for me because a couple of years ago I was going about my daily business, had just had a yummy tuna sandwich for lunch, and all of a sudden had a red rash all over my body. I was taken to Teddington hospital, where there were no queues and seen immediately. The nurse took one look at me and asked if I had eaten tuna for lunch. I said I had and she quickly diagnosed it as eating fish that has botulism which can shut down the major organs of your body within a couple of hours.
An hour later, a stint under an oxygen mask and dosed up to the eyeballs with antihistamines I was free to go. Had I not been seen to so quickly, something much worse could have happened, but thanks to the nurse I am sitting here happily with a cup of tea (and no more tuna sandwiches).