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University College Hospital

Coordinates: 51°31′30.87″N 00°08′03.83″W / 51.5252417°N 0.1343972°W / 51.5252417; -0.1343972
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University College Hospital
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hospital building, opened 2005
University College Hospital is located in London Borough of Camden
University College Hospital
Shown in Camden
Geography
LocationFitzrovia, London, England
Coordinates51°31′30.87″N 00°08′03.83″W / 51.5252417°N 0.1343972°W / 51.5252417; -0.1343972
Organisation
Care systemNational Health Service
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity College London
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds665[1]
History
Opened1834; 190 years ago (1834)
Links
Websiteuclh.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England
Etching by Paul Waterhouse of the Cruciform Building on Gower Street
Paul Waterhouse's etching of the Cruciform Building on Gower Street
The Cruciform Building on Gower Street in 2007

University College Hospital (UCH) is a teaching hospital in the Fitzrovia area of the London Borough of Camden, England. The hospital, which was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834, is closely associated with University College London (UCL), whose main campus is situated next door. The hospital is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital is on the south side of Euston Road and its tower faces Euston Square tube station on the east side. Warren Street tube station lies immediately west and the major Euston terminus station is beyond 200 metres east, just beyond Euston Square Gardens.

History

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In 1826, the London University began emphasising the importance of having medical schools attached to hospitals. Before the hospital opened, only Oxford and Cambridge universities offered medical degrees, and as a consequence relatively few doctors actually had degrees.[2] The hospital was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834 in order to provide clinical training for the "medical classes" of the university, after a refusal by the governors of the Middlesex Hospital to allow students access to that hospital's wards.[3] It soon became known as University College Hospital.[3]

In 1835, Robert Liston became the first professor of clinical surgery at UCH,[4][5] and the first major operation under ether in Europe was conducted at the hospital by Liston on 21 December 1846.[3] UCH was split from UCL in 1905, and a new hospital building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, known as the Cruciform Building, was opened in 1906 on Gower Street. UCH merged with the National Dental Hospital in 1914, and the Royal Ear Hospital in 1920.[3]

George Orwell married Sonia Brownell in 1949, and later died 21 January 1950, in room 65 of the hospital.[6] The hospital was run by the Camden and Islington Area Health Authority[7] from 1974. In 1994, UCH became part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.[3] The hospital site at the Cruciform Building was closed in 1995, despite strikes and an occupation in 1993.[8] The building was purchased by UCL, for use as the home for the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and the teaching facility for UCL bioscience and medical students UCL Medical School.[9]

A new 75,822 m2 hospital, procured under the Private Finance Initiative in 2000, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang[10] and built by a joint venture of AMEC and Balfour Beatty at a cost of £422 million, opened in 2005.[11][12] The sculpture Monolith and Shadow made from a large polished piece of Brazilian granite was placed outside the main entrance to the new hospital in 2005.[13]

In October 2006, the hospital was nominated and made the Building Design shortlist for the inaugural Carbuncle Cup, awarded to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months",[14] which was ultimately awarded to Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth.[15] Facilities management services are provided by Interserve.[1]

In November 2008, the £70 million Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing was opened, allowing the hospital to offer all women's health services in one place (except some breast and gynaecology services).[16]

In 2024, King Charles III became patron of the hospital, a role Queen Elizabeth II had filled until her death in 2022.[17]

Services

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As of 2015 the following services were provided at the hospital:[18]

The hospital has 665 in-patient beds, 12 operating theatres and houses the largest single critical care unit in the NHS.[1][18] The Accident and Emergency department sees approximately 120,000 patients a year.[19] It is a major teaching hospital and a key location for the UCL Medical School.[20] It is also a major centre for medical research and part of both the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre.[21][22]

The urology department moved to University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, formerly the Heart Hospital, in 2015.[23][24]

Notable staff

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "UCLH". Interserve Plc. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  2. ^ The London Encyclopaedia, Weinreb and Hibbert, 1983
  3. ^ a b c d e "UCLH trust chronology". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Overview of Robert Liston".
  5. ^ Flemming, P. (1926). "Robert Liston, the first professor of clinical surgery at UCH". University College Hospital Magazine. 1: 176–85. in Gordon, R. (1983), p. 146.
  6. ^ Cavendish, Dominic (1 August 2017). "The It Girl who tried to save George Orwell – and how Cressida Bonas will bring her alive in a new play". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. ^ "The National Health Service (Constitution of Area Health Authorities) Order 1973" (PDF). Legislation.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  8. ^ "The South London Women's Hospital Occupation 1984–85". Past tense. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  9. ^ University College London (21 May 2018). "Cruciform Building". Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  10. ^ "University College Hospital". E-Architect. 30 September 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  11. ^ "University College London Hospitals wins award for Best Health Project (over £20 million)". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 24 January 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  12. ^ "University College London Hospital". ASM. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Rare stone to boost hospital aura". BBC News. 24 August 2005. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  14. ^ Watson, Anna (22 July 2010). "Six in race for Carbuncle Cup". bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  15. ^ bdonline.co.uk. "Bottom of the barrel - Carbuncles 2006". Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  16. ^ "New EGA Wing opens to mothers and babies". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  17. ^ "His Majesty King Charles III accepts patronages of University College Hospital and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine". UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  18. ^ a b "University College Hospital". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  19. ^ "University College London Hospitals: Emergency Services". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  20. ^ "Bloomsbury Campus". UCL Medical School. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  21. ^ "Home". UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  22. ^ "About us". UCL Partners. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  23. ^ University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street (formerly the Heart Hospital)
  24. ^ UCLH Web site: Refurbishment of the Heart Hospital, 18 May 2015, retrieved 15 September 2015 "The Heart Hospital is being refurbished and will reopen at the beginning of the summer to provide thoracic surgery and urology services ... it will be called University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street."
  25. ^ Hazell, Jonathan (23 February 1994). "Obituary: Graham Fraser". The Independent. Retrieved 4 September 2023.

Sources

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  • Merrington, William, (1976) University College Hospital and its Medical School: a history, Heinemann ISBN 9780434465002
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