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St George's Hospital is an Incorporated Society with charitable trust status
established by the people of Canterbury.
The Hospital was first suggested in the 1850s when the London-based
Canterbury Association encouraged Canterbury's founding settlers to
create a vibrant new city and to build a cathedral, a boys' school, a
university college, a church hospital and later a medical school.
The early Canterbury settlers vision resulted in the development of
Christ's College in 1851, the Christchurch Hospital 1862, University of Canterbury
in 1874 and the Medical School in 1972.
In the early 1920s a band of enthusiasts, led and inspired by Canon J R Wilford,
then Principal of College House, set about founding a private Church of England
Hospital in Christchurch.
The Hospital was built as a result of cooperation between the Anglican Church
and a group of interested Cantabrians and opened its doors in 1928. The Hospital
is registered to care for surgical, medical and maternity patients mostly from the private sector.
It also contracts to provide a range of surgical and obstetric services to public
patients funded by Government.
The Hospital does not have shareholders. Any financial surplus is re-invested in the Hospital
or used to carry out the Hospital's charitable objectives.
Today, the Hospital is one of the largest private hospitals in New Zealand and is one of the
most modern in terms of its equipment and technology.
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Canon J. R. Wilford and Rev Mother Alice
The twenty-fifth anniversary of St George's, 1953. The staff outside St Mary's Church, Merivale
H.E. Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall speaking prior to laying the
foundation stone of the Nurses' Home in 1941.
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