Eastbourne District General Hospital
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Eastbourne District General Hospital
Location in East Sussex
Geography
Location	Kings Drive, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°47′11″N 0°16′11″E / 50.7864829°N 0.2697638°E / 50.7864829; 0.2697638
Organisation
Care system	National Health Service
Type	District general
Affiliated university	None
Patron	None
Services
Emergency department	Accident & Emergency
Beds	380
History
Opened	1977
Links
Website	www.esht.nhs.uk/hospitals-and-community/eastbourne-dgh/
Lists	Hospitals in England

Eastbourne District General Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Eastbourne in East Sussex, England. It is managed by the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

History

The hospital, which was built in the mid-1970s, was officially opened by Princess Alexandra in 1977.^[1] It was expanded in 1989 under a scheme which allowed the old Victorian St Mary's Hospital to close and be demolished in 1990.^[2] In 2015 the hospital confirmed that it had sent off a sample, taken from a patient with a history of travel in West Africa, for precautionary ebola testing at Public Health England.^[3]