Teaching Hospitals in London - Charing Cross Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Croydon University Hospital, Guy's Hospital, King's College (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Charing Cross Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Croydon University Hospital, Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Royal London Hospital, St. Mark's Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital, St George's Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, London, St Thomas' Hospital, The Heart Hospital, UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre, University College Hospital. Excerpt: St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England, usually known as St Thomas's Hospital until the late 20th century. Administratively part of the Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, together with Guy's Hospital and King's College Hospital it provides the location of the King's College London School of Medicine. Originally located in Southwark, but based in Lambeth since 1871, the hospital has provided health care freely or under charitable auspices since the 12th century. It is one of London's most famous hospitals, associated with names such as Astley Cooper, William Cheselden, Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards, Edmund Montgomery and Agnes Elizabeth Jones. It is a prominent London landmark - largely due to its location on the opposite bank of the River Thames to the Houses of Parliament. St Thomas' Hospital is accessible from Westminster tube station (a ten-minute walk across Westminster bridge), Waterloo station (tube and national rail, also a ten-minute walk) and Lambeth North tube station (another ten-minute walk). The hospital was described as ancient in 1215 and was named after St Thomas Becket which suggests it may have been founded after 1173 when Becket was canonised. However, it is possible it was only renamed in 1173 and that it was established shortly after St Mary Overie Priory was founded at Southwark in 1106 . Originally it was run by a mixed order of Augustinian monks and nuns, dedicated to St Thomas Becket. It provided shelter and treatment for the poor, sick, and homeless. In the fifteenth century, Richard Whittington endowed a laying-in ward for unmarried mothers. The monastery was dissolved in 1539 during the Reformation, but reopened in 1551 and rededicated to Thomas the Apostle. It was reopened through the efforts of the City of London who obtained the grant of the site and a charter from Edward VI and has remained open ever since. The hospital was also the site of the first printed English Bible in 1537