Editing Fort Blockhouse (section)

====Defence Medical Training facilities====
Also in 1996 the Defence Medical Training Organisation (DMTO) was established at Fort Blockhouse,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/navynews/docs/200205/15|title=Farewell to medical college at Blockhouse|publisher=Navy News|date=1 May 2002|access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref> to assume responsibility for medical training across the three services and to rationalise its delivery.<ref name="DMTO">{{cite journal |last1=Callow |first1=C. G. |title=The Defence Medical Training Organisation |journal=Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service |date=March 1996 |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=53–55 |doi=10.1136/jrnms-82-53 |url=https://jrnms.bmj.com/content/82/1/53 |access-date=16 September 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Subsequently, in 1996-97, the [[Royal Army Medical College|Royal Defence Medical College]] (RDMC) moved to Fort Blockhouse from [[Millbank]]:<ref name="RDMC">{{cite journal |last1=Jenkins |first1=I. L. |title=The Royal Defence Medical College |journal=Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service |date=1997 |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=113–115 |doi=10.1136/jrnms-83-113 |url=https://jrnms.bmj.com/content/83/3/113 |access-date=1 September 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> the RDMC provided initial and advanced training for all military Medical Officers and nurses and the majority of medical technicians.<ref name="Memo1999">{{cite web |title=Memorandum submitted to the Defence Committee by the Ministry of Defence responding to the Committee's Questions on the Defence Medical Services |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmdfence/447/447we02.htm |website=UK Parliament |publisher=House of Commons |access-date=16 August 2024 |date=3 November 1999}}</ref> Following the decommissioning of HMS ''Dolphin'' in 1998, RDMC became responsible for the whole Fort Blockhouse estate. In 2002, however, after the closure of Haslar hospital had been announced, the college relocated from Gosport to Birmingham (where the [[Royal Centre for Defence Medicine]] had been established the previous year); it now forms part of the [[University of Birmingham Medical School]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine |url=https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/services/royal-centre-for-defence-medicine/history-of-the-rcdm.htm |website=Birmingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |access-date=16 August 2024}}</ref> 

After the closure of the college, the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (successor to the DMTO) remained, with its headquarters in the Mackenzie Building at Fort Blockhouse; the DMETA maintained a 'small residual training facility' on the site,<ref>{{cite web |title=DMETA Annual Report 2006-07 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c95f1e5274a0bb7cb8089/0811.pdf |website=GOV.UK |access-date=16 August 2024}}</ref> which was connected with the local [[Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit]]. The DMETA was wound up in 2008, and its functions relocated to [[DMS Whittington]] as part of Joint Medical Command.<ref>{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=UK |title=Executive Agencies |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2008-04-01/debates/08040155000017/ExecutiveAgencies |house=House of Commons |date=1 April 2008 |volume=474 |column= |speaker=Mr Bob Ainsworth |position=Minister for the Armed Forces}}</ref>