2-879-333 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, 13/05/1993. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II signing the visitors book at the official opening of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, as a group of guests watch. Sir William Doughty, chairman of North West Thames Regional Health Authority, is shown beside the Queen in this photograph. Laing Management Contracting worked on the construction of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on behalf of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority between 1989 and 1993. The new teaching hospital was built on the site of the old St Stephen’s Hospital, which was demolished in the early months of 1989. The use of fast track construction techniques enabled the entire project to be completed in less than 5 years, and the hospital was officially opened by the Queen on 13 May 1993.