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Hospital

Hospitals were places of work in which employees (including doctors, nurses and administrative staff) sought to heal temporary residents, damaged organic life called "patients". These institutions varied greatly in character. Some were small and make-shift — as on battlefields during time of war. Others were imposing, solid buildings with long histories of general care. Not a few specialized in particular kinds of medical care, like mental health. Still others gave themselves over to medical research, in which those admitted were more "subject" than "patient".

Perhaps because of the Doctor's outlook on life — not to mention his very name — many of the more important events in his life took place in hospitals. It was not uncommon for his own regeneration, injury to his companion or the presence of alien menace to land him in a hospital. Similarly, the Torchwood 3 team — and, to a lesser extent, Sarah Jane Smith and Mr Smith — monitored the pattern of hospital admissions for any sign of threat to Earth.

The Doctor

Opinions about hospitals

The Doctor has sometimes expressed strong views about hospitals. In particular, the Eighth Doctor has expressed an aversion for hospitals, arising from his regeneration in Walker General Hospital in San Francisco. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks, Kursaal) The Tenth Doctor seemed to have no particular problems with hospitals, but said that he liked them to have little gift shops, as they clearly indicated where the hospital exit was. (DW: New Earth, Smith and Jones, Silence in the Library)

As setting for alien incursion

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• Albion Hospital (DW: Aliens of London, World War Three, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, BFU: The Longest Night)
• Royal Hope Hospital (DW: Smith and Jones, Turn Left; QR: Made of Steel')
• New New York Hospital (DW: New Earth)
• Walker General Hospital (DW: Doctor Who (1996) possibly also BFIW: The Panda Invasion
• St. Helen's Hospital, Cardiff. (TW: Children of Earth)
• St Teilo's Military Hospital (TW: To the Last Man)
• Ashbridge Cottage Hospital (DW: Spearhead from Space; MA: Who Killed Kennedy)
• St Gart's Hospital, Hex's place of employment when he meets the Seventh Doctor on 12 October 2021. (BFA: The Harvest)
• Charnage Hospital, northern France, used by The Forge to run a secret project to brainwash British soldiers into becoming more aggressive, and possibly time-sensitive. (BFA: No Man's Land)
• St. Nicholas' Hospital, the location of a boy named Daniel Francis Thompson. (The Sunday Times: "Deep and Dreamless Sleep")
• Wenley Hospital, where Spencer was cared for by Dr. Meredith. (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
• The Eighth Doctor takes Destrii to the medical space station, Hippocrates Base, after she was bludgeoned nearly to death by Jodafra. While there, the duo must help repel a Zeronite attack. Noting her utility in the fight, the Doctor offers Destrii the opportunity to become a full-time companion. (DWM: "Bad Blood", "Sins of the Fathers")
• The Seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej investigate Patsy Monette's claims that members of her species are being held in the Petruska Psychiatric Institution in 1958. The Institute turns out to be connected to the planet Kron'tep through the time vortex, and allows Peri to escape from her loveless marriage and return permanently to the (20th century). (NA: Bad Therapy)
• The Argus was a marine life research vessel to which the Doctor brought Izzy Sinclair so that she could understand the full medical implications of her transposition with Destrii's body. (DWM: Children of the Revolution)
• Adipose 3, a planet given over to the breeding of Adipose. (DW: Partners in Crime, The Stolen Earth)

Mental Institutions

• Hawkswick Hall, North Yorkshire, a military mental hospital giving care to shell-shocked soldiers in the aftermath of their World War I service. (EDA: Casualties of War)
• The Retreat was a progressive psychiatric institution in the late 20th century which inhabited the same grounds as a 19th-early 20th century asylum, known as Mausolus House. In the late 20th century, the The Doctor, Trix and Fitz investigated the history of the place, and discovered that the original structure had burned in a massive fire in 1903. While conducting this research, the Doctor also posed as Dr. John Smith, and provided guidance to a suicidal patient called Laska. He believed her mental problems — and those of the other patients — were being greatly emphasized by he Sholem-Luz, time-sensitives who directly fed off mental anguish. The Doctor helped Laska break free of Sholem-Luz control by luring the Sholem-Luz back through the time tunnels they had created to the exact time and place of the fire which destroyed the original structure. Unfortunately, he could only accomplish this without the TARDIS. Stranded, the Doctor had no choice but to "wait" a century until he caught up with himself. Thus, in a move reminiscent of something Captain Jack Harkness would do, the Doctor allowed himself to sleep through the rest of the 20th century in a sarcophagus in the chapel on the grounds of the mental institution. In a sense, then, The Retreat was the site of the Doctor's longest-known stay in hospital. (EDA: The Sleep of Reason)
• Bedlam Royal Hospital (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
• an unnamed mental hospital in (PDA: The Suns of Caresh) (Third Doctor)
• an Digby York Hospital in West Sussex to which Clement MacDonald was committed at some point following his initial encounter with the 456. (TW: Children of Earth)
• St. Sebastian's Home for the Insane, an institution to which the only witness to Harry Sullivan's death, albeit in a probably alternate time line, was committed. (PDA: Wolfsbane)
• A mental hospital within walking distance of a tube station housed patients of interest to two incarnations of the Doctor. Ace once went there to visit Judith Winters, a girl who had been turned into the Black Dalek during the Shoreditch Incident. At the time of the visit, Winters had been committed there for over 25 years. (DWM: "In the Community") A Time Lord named Roche was also institutionalized there. In search of answers about a recently-created time fracture, and the mysterious appearance of an alien named Troy Game on Earth, Jo Grant tried to visit him. However, he immediately pushed her back through time 30 minutes as soon as she introduced herself. Undeterred, she returned to the hospital, this time with Troy Game. As soon as the two entered Roche's room, he telepathically instructed Troy Game to bring his TARDIS to him so he could escape, and Jo was again drawn away from asking Roche any revelatory questions. Both of Jo's trips to the mental hospital, it turned out, were heavily influenced by Roche's struggle with a Hunter Fury, a time vortex-dweller which had gotten out via the time fracture. (PDA: The Suns of Caresh)

Rest homes

Mrs. Gribbins was in charge of Lavender Lawns rest homes and was working with the Gorgons. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)

Medical research facilities

• TW: Reset
• After becoming infected by the Swarm, the Fourth Doctor once sought medical assistance from the Bi-Al Foundation. There, he met Professor Marius, who gave the Doctor a farewell gift of K9 Mark I. (DW: The Invisible Enemy)

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• Sarah Jane Smith once did an investigation of MRSA infections at a British hospital. This kept her away from most of the events surrounding Clyde Langer's dad's misappropriation of the Berserker Pendant. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)
• DW: Blink
• TW: Dead Man Walking
• From Out of the Rain
• A Day in the Death

• DW: The Hand of Fear

• Immediately prior to joining Torchwood 3, Owen Harper and his fiancé, Katie Russell worked as junior doctors in an unnamed London hospital. Russell died in the same hospital because an alien had infiltrated her body. (TW: Fragments')
• the hospital at which Mae Harrison eventually made a full recovery, thanks to the Tenth Doctor. (TDL: The Pictures of Emptiness)
• There were hospiital facilities in the colony on Vulcan (DW: Power of the Daleks), on the moonbase (DW: The Moonbase) and on the Wheel (DW: The Wheel in Space), as well as on Bowie Base One (DW: The Waters of Mars).
• an unnamed hospital where Edgar Allen Poe dies (ST: "The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull" (First Doctor)
• The Daleks created hospital-like facilities called healing zones ostensibly for the treatment of the NFS plague, but actually for the breeding of a new Dalek army. (BFDE: The Survivors', The Demons, The Warriors, The Future)
• the hospital where The Moderator was murdered. (DWM: "The Moderator")
• there was a hospital at Snowglobe 6 filled with infected Gappa and visited by the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble. (NSA: Snowglobe 7)
• Several hospitals are featured in BFA: Project Twilight, as the vampires of the Forge were shown to be donating blood so as to placate the authorities and retain their government sanction.
• Adam Mitchell underwent a surgical procedure to implant a microchip into his head on Floor 16 of Satellite 5. It was implied that emergency facilities were located on other floors. (DW: The Long Game)
• In 1943 Honoré Lechasseur had to spend extensive time in an unnamed hospital following injuries sustained in World War II. Whilst in that hospital, he was possibly attended by an unknown incarnation of the Doctor who helped him recover (TN: The Cabinet of Light)
• Mike Lyndon ended up in hospital after defending his home from burglars. His wife, Beth Halloran — an unwitting member of a Cell 114 invasion force — later killed him in the same hospital. (TW: Sleeper).
• Jackie Tyler ended up in hospital when she was mugged by an assailant who was attempting to steal her winning ticket for a "holiday" which would have turned her into a combatant in an alien war. Her stint in hospital ironically saved her life, as the mugger ended up being killed in the war in which she would have otherwise unwittingly participated (NSA: Winner Takes All)

• According to a soldier the Ninth Doctor met in 1914, Jack Harkness spent time in a hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head during combat in World War I. The Doctor failed to explore exactly why Jack would have faked the need for a hospital. (IDW: The Forgotten)

• Polly was once nearly given an operation in a medical facility in Atlantis which would have converted her into a Fish Person. (DW: The Underwater Menace)
• The Doctor, Ace and Hex once worked alongside Florence Nightingale at a field hospital near Scutari during the Crimean War. (BFA: The Angel of Scutari)
• Ace went into shock after a gunshot wound and had an extended stay in an unnamed British hospital, likely close to the dawn of the 21st century. (BFA: The Fearmonger)
• Hospitals also played an important role in the lives of the Torchwood 3 team. Immediately prior to joining Torchwood 3, Gwen Cooper once chased Jack Harkness through a hospital that was being terrorized by a Weevil. In a part of the hospital that had been cleared of all personnel, she watched as Jack rendered the Weevil helpless with a mysterious spray. Following Jack out of the hospital, she watched as an unmarked SUV whisked Jack away. (TW: Everything Changes)

• Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato once investigated a quarantined hospital in Cardiff which had mysteriously become overwhelmed by bubonic plague, introduced by an alpha patient who had come through the Rift from the 14th century. (TW: End of Days)

• Owen Harper once sedated a Hoix with a packet of cigarettes in a Welsh hospital. (TW: Exit Wounds)
• Owen Harper and Jack Harkness investigated a rise in the number of patients in Cardiff hospitals suffering from Weevil injuries. Upon visiting one local hospital, they encountered Will Harris, a patient who nearly had his heart ripped out by a Weevil. This information helps lead the Torchwood team to the Weevil Fight Club. (TW: Combat)
• Cardiff hospitals were flooded with patients suffering from coma-like trances, triggered by phone calls. (TWA: The Dead Line)

TARDIS

The Doctor's TARDIS itself is said to have its own hospital ward. (NA: Sanctuary)

Military hospitals

(possibly set a whole section about this, or just about UNIT. The Doctor and Captain Jack have both had several encounter with emergency aid stations in times of war/military service.) Various UNIT bases possessed at least rudimentary sick bays. The Doctor was taken to one immediately after his regeneration into his fourth body (DW: Robot), while Majenta Pryce and the Tenth Doctor would later examine mysteriously-aged patients at UNIT's underwater base in Australia. (DWM: "The Age of Ice")

• The Doctor and Martha once assisted Queen Angboda and her fleet of medical ships deliver needed supplies to the refugees of the war which raged on Tragellan asteroid colony of Haklok. (DWBIT: "Force and Fury", "Warriors' Revenge")

fictional

Channel 400 on the planet Blinni-Gaar broadcast what was likely a soap opera set in the titular Ogron Hospital. (PDA: Prime Time)

Behind the Scenes

Real life hospitals have proven popular filming locations.

• Ford's Hospital and Lord Leycester Hospital (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
• St Anne's Hospital (DW: The Invasion of Time)
• Cardiff Royal Infirmary (DW: Aliens of London, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances)
• Milford Chest Hospital (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
• St. Crispin's Hospital (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• The DIstrict Miners Hospital in Caerphilly, Wales. Setting for DW: Blink, TW: Reset, From Out of the Rain.
• Glanrhyd Hospital in Bridgend, Wales. (TW: To the Last Man)
• Singleton Hospital, Sketty, Swansea, Wales. (DW: Smith and Jones)
• St. Cadoc's Hospital, Caerleon, Gwent, Wales. (TW: Sleeper, Children of Earth: Day One; DW: (unknown episodes), Series 5)
• University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. (DW: "'Rose, World War Three; TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
• British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. {DW: Doctor Who (1996))
• Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff, Wales. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)
• Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick, England. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
• Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Ynysmaerdy, Llantrissant, Wales. (TW: Dead Man Walking)
• Whitechurch Hospital, Whitechurch, Cardiff. (TW: From Out of the Rain)
• Llandough Hospital, Llandough, Wales. (SJA: Mark of the Berserker)

• Arbertillery Hospital a location for a currently unknown episode of Series 5.