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Type of entity
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Woolwich Group Hospital Management Committee , National Health Service
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Description area
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History
The Woolwich Group Hospital Management Committee was set up in 1948 with the creation of the National Health Service, to administer various hospitals including Bexley and Welling Hospital, Brook General Hospital, Eltham and Mottingham Hospital, Erith and District Hospital, the Woolwich Memorial Hospital, Saint Nicholas' Hospital, Bexley Maternity Hospital, Hainault Maternity Hospital, the Russell Stoneham Hospital, Goldie Leigh Hospital and the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies (Woolwich). It was dissolved during 1974 as part of the National Health Service reorganisation.