St Helen's Hospital was ahospital inCardiff. Its location, close to theCardiff Rift, meant that it was often first to take in the victims ofalien incursions. It was regularly visited by members ofTorchwood Three.

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The vehicular entrance was connected via a sweeping approach road to the main hospital car park. Located at the front of the hospital, the car park was on several levels and spread over a wide area, each level separated by bushes, young trees and pedestrian walkways.

Automatic doors in the glass frontage at the main entrance of the hospital led from the car park into Reception - part of the main foyer. This was a waiting area, which contained rows of metal-framed seats and at least onevending machine. The lifts were located across the main foyer from Reception.

Located on one of the upper floors was the intensive care unit. It was for authorised personnel only. Through the doors to the unit was a wide corridor with an orange floor and subdued lighting. Half way along the corridor was a desk, which was to be manned at all times, with a scatter of paperwork, alaptop and a desk lamp with a green-bulb. Flanking the corridor on both sides were rows of glass fronted intensive care cubicles, each large enough to contain a hospital bed and any items of medical equipment a patient required.

The maternity unit was located on the fifth floor, just across the corridor from both the lifts and an open stairwell, and through a set of double doors. Immediately through the doors was the nurses' station. The maternity unit comprised of a wide central corridor withbirthing rooms on one side and a series of ten-bed wards on the other. It more closely resembled ahotel than part of a hospital, designed with comfort and reassurance in mind. The intensive care unit, or Ward 5, contained four beds, each within it's own self-contained cubicle. Opposite the door were four waist-high windows which looked out over the hospital car park. (PROSE:Bay of the Dead)

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On26 March2005, people injured by afire at theManor Rest Hotel were taken to St Helen's Hospital. (AUDIO:One Rule)

Death went here to kill thirteen people to enter the physical world completely, but failed because ofOwen Harper. (TV:Dead Man Walking) After thatAngela Connolly, a doctor at the hospital, trapped aHoix in the basement of the hospital. Owen helped her tranquillise it. (TV:Exit Wounds)

Hywel Roberts'sfather was a patient at St Helen's. Hywel attempted to call the hospital fromTraveller's Halt. (AUDIO:Deadbeat Escape)

In2009,Nina Rogers visited St Helens to receive stitches after having put her foot through a plate-glass window. She, along with hospital staff and visitors - including midwifeRianne Kilkenny, found herself trapped inside by a horde of "zombies" which appeared to be guarding the building.Andy Davidson attempted to take his police partner,Dawn Stratton, to St Helen's at this time, but was unable to do so.Jack Harkness andIanto Jones attempted to get through the hospital car park in theTorchwood SUV. They were unable to do and had to be rescued from the roof of the vehicle byGwen Cooper andRhys Williams in aCoastguard helicopter. Accessing the hospital from the roof, Torchwood Three made their way to the intensive care unit where they discoveredLeet, asymbiont, inhabiting the comatose body ofOscar Phillips. With the "zombies" having now broken into the hospital, Leet awoke Oscar, and Oscar jumped from the window, renouncing his control over the creatures. (PROSE:Bay of the Dead)

In September2009, following a brief visit byJack Harkness andIanto Jones to pick up a "hitchhiker" fromMr Williams' dead body, Jack returned to investigateMr Chow Lee Jee's cause of death and was fatally shot by secretBritish government agentRupesh Patanjali. Patanjali himself was shortly afterwards shot to death byJohnson so he might not suspect the real reason that Patanjali sought help fromTorchwood. (TV:Children of Earth: Day One)

In2011, theMiracle Day phenomenon caused overcrowding as people with fatal conditions no longer died. A crowd of people massed by the hospital and some even worshipped the doctors. St Helen's had representatives visiting another, abandoned hospital to examine its possible use as storage for the overflowingICU patients. (TV:Escape to LA)

Gwen Cooper was forced to leave hiding to visit herfather in the hospital after suffering from a series of heart attacks. Gwen's husband,Rhys Williams, and her baby daughter,Anwen, accompanied her. (TV:The New World)