Hospitals in West Yorkshire - St James's University Hospital, Leeds, Leeds General Infirmary, High Royds Hospital, Airedale General Hospital (Paperback)

Chapters: St James's University Hospital, Leeds, Leeds General Infirmary, High Royds Hospital, Airedale General Hospital, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Seacroft Hospital, Martin House Hospice, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Wharfedale Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust, Bradford Royal Infirmary, the Mount, Kirkwood Hospice, St. Luke's Hospital, Bradford, St. Luke's Hospital, Huddersfield. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: St James's University Hospital, Leeds - St James's is the largest teaching hospital in Europe, although this title has also been claimed for the Charite in Berlin. It is one of six centres which conduct liver transplants. St James's was the location of the first living-related donor liver transplant on the NHS. It is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, along with the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), Seacroft Hospital, Wharfedale Hospital, Chapel Allerton Hospital and until April 2008 (when it closed), Cookridge Hospital. Both St James's and the LGI are extensively involved in the teaching of medical students, nurses and junior doctors. All of the Hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills (Chancellor's Wing is named after the then Chancellor of the University of Leeds, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who opened the building in 1972). The current Hospital wings are: A New Oncology building, the Bexley Wing, containing the St James's Institute of Oncology, accepted its first patients in December 2007. It was officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 17 July 2008. The building is one of Europe's largest cancer centres, with 1,600 staff and 350 beds. The University of Leeds has a large presence at the St James's site with a new molecular medicine cen...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=939647