The hospital has recently benefitted from a major development and refurbishment programme, with new facilities including a state-of-the-art cancer unit, an additional operating theatre, new children's ward, new special care baby unit and outpatients building. The maternity department has also been refurbished with extra facilities. The hospital is home to a state-of-the-art heart centre, containing a £3.6 million operating theatre for specialist diagnostic procedures and up-to-date facilities for the hospital's cardiology department. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital is part of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
