About the Trust
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and the late Queen Mother) officially opened the Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital on the Boulevard, Weston-super-Mare in 1928. Over the years, equipment was added and updated. ‘Portable and temporary’ buildings were added to the Hospital in an attempt to keep pace with the growing needs of the community.
However, with the growth in the town of Weston, and in particular around the area of Worle, it became quite evident that the type of health care and hospitals Weston had seen in the past, would not meet the needs of the future.
Much debate took place resulting in a new hospital being built and opened on 16 September 1986, on the edge of Uphill village. The Hospital now has 327 beds and employs approximately 1,800 highly skilled staff.
Each year the Trust seems to manage to treat an even greater number of patients, with limited resources. It is all too easy for those of us in the Trust to forget how often we touch the lives of people in our community..