Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton is a hospital in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1915 to provide care for wounded soldiers, it became a world renowned limb fitting and amputee rehabilitation centre. Recently rebuilt and modernised it has become a unit of the Wandsworth Primary Care Trust. It now provides general community services in addition to the special services for which it is famous. It is also the hospital that British actor James Beck was rushed to and died three weeks later.
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