Our Heritage
Parkside Hospital is built on the site of a Roman Catholic seminary of late Victorian vintage and was originally named 'The Parkside Clinic'. The company commissioning the building was Medicure Ltd whose offices were based in Pall Mall. In the 1970s this was thought to be a rather ambitious project which required a large investment of capital, skill, imagination and time. On 25th October 1979, the London Borough of Merton granted outline planning permission.
The Hospital was built as a direct result of the trend towards the demand for private medicine and insufficient private bed availability in the area at that time. Patients had previously been directed to hospitals within inner London as the existing private hospitals could not cope with the demand.
Parkside Hospital opened in 1983 and was built at a cost of £5m.
