The Repatriation General Hospital Concord Becomes a Teaching Hospital in Response to High Post-War Enrolments in 1948
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Concord Hospital was erected in 1941-1942 by the Department of the Army and was known as the ‘113th Australian General Hospital’. It was designed to cater for the treatment of members of the armed forces and received its first patient in March 1941. Many Faculty staff were associated with this hospital during their Army years, and this continued after the Concord buildings were handed over to the Repatriation Commission in 1947.
At that time, the Hospital’s role was to provide in-patient treatment for veterans and eligible dependants requiring the facilities of an acute general hospital. Concord Hospital first entered the field of undergraduate teaching in 1948 to meet the needs of the University during the period of high post-war enrolments. These arrangements were suspended in 1951 but recommenced in 1963 when the Hospital was affiliated with the University of Sydney as a teaching hospital of medical undergraduates. Concord became part of the NSW State Health System when the Commonwealth Government withdrew its direct support of hospitals. After some uncertainty about its future, the Hospital has become an important partner with Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the Central Clinical School of the Faculty. ,
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