Charing Cross Hospital is a hospital in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was established in 1823 as the West London Infirmary, and was originally located in Villiers Street, near
Charing CrossCharing Cross denotes the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in Westminster within Central London, England. It is named after the site of a long demolished Eleanor cross located at the former hamlet of Charing, at this point...
in the heart of the metropolis. It is now located several miles to the west of the city centre in the
London Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamThe London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London, and forms part of Inner London. Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.-History:The borough was formed in 1965...
.
The institution had its origins in a meeting initiated by Dr
Benjamin GoldingDr Benjamin Golding was a British doctor and the founder of Charing Cross Hospital.Golding died in 1863 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London....
in 1818. The infirmary provided accommodation for twelve beds, and became known as Charing Cross Hospital in 1827.
Charing Cross Hospital is a hospital in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was established in 1823 as the West London Infirmary, and was originally located in Villiers Street, near
Charing CrossCharing Cross denotes the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in Westminster within Central London, England. It is named after the site of a long demolished Eleanor cross located at the former hamlet of Charing, at this point...
in the heart of the metropolis. It is now located several miles to the west of the city centre in the
London Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamThe London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London, and forms part of Inner London. Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.-History:The borough was formed in 1965...
.
The institution had its origins in a meeting initiated by Dr
Benjamin GoldingDr Benjamin Golding was a British doctor and the founder of Charing Cross Hospital.Golding died in 1863 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London....
in 1818. The infirmary provided accommodation for twelve beds, and became known as Charing Cross Hospital in 1827. A new building was opened in Agar Street in 1834 with accommodation for twenty-two medical students, and was extended several times. After the second World War it was decided that the hospital should move out of central London, and in 1957 a link was proposed with Fulham and West London Hospitals. The new Charing Cross Hospital was opened in 1973 on Fulham Palace Road, on the site of the old Fulham Hospital.
It is part of
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on 1 October 2007 by the merger of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and St Mary's NHS Trust with Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine...
and is one of the
Imperial College School of MedicineThe Imperial College School of Medicine is the medical school of Imperial College London in England, and one of the United Hospitals....
's teaching hospitals. It is a tertiary referral centre for neurosurgery, and is a national centre of excellence for
gestational trophoblastic diseaseGestational trophoblastic disease is any type of abnormal proliferation of trophoblasts during pregnancy.-Types:Types include:* abnormal placenta, mostly due to abnormal fertilization** hydatidiform mole * frank malignant tumors of trophoblast...
.
Originally supporting
Charing Cross Hospital Medical SchoolCharing Cross Hospital medical school is the oldest of the constituent medical schools of Imperial College.-History:It was founded in 1818, as part of the Charing Cross Hospital, by Dr Benjamin Golding, to meet the needs of the poor who flocked to the cities in search of work in the new factories...
,
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical SchoolCharing Cross and Westminster Medical School existed as a legal entity for 13 years, as the midpoint of a series of mergers which strategically consolidated the many small medical schools in west London into one large institution under the aegis of Imperial College LondonIn 1984, West London local...
was formed in 1984 by the merger with
Westminster Hospital Medical SchoolThe Westminster Hospital Medical School was formally founded in 1834 by George Guthrie, an ex-military surgeon - although students had been taken on at Westminster Hospital almost from the hospital's foundation in 1719 .The hospital and medical school moved to larger buildings several times in the...
. In 1997, CXWMS merged with
Imperial College LondonImperial College London is a British university in London specialising in science, engineering, medicine and business....
(whose medical department was at
St Mary's Hospital Medical SchoolSt Mary’s is the youngest of the schools of Imperial College, London, founded in 1854 as part of the new hospital in Paddington. St Mary’s Hospital, London was traditionally the refuge of sons of Welsh farmers and miners, stumbling off the train at Paddington to study medicine in the big smoke; and...
in Paddington), The National Heart & Lung Institute and the
Royal Postgraduate Medical SchoolThe Royal Postgraduate Medical School was an independent medical school in England. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of the Imperial College School of Medicine.-History:...
(at
Hammersmith HospitalHammersmith Hospital is a major teaching hospital in West London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and is associated with the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine...
) to create a large new institution,
Imperial College School of MedicineThe Imperial College School of Medicine is the medical school of Imperial College London in England, and one of the United Hospitals....
.
The Reynolds Building, which lies adjacent to the hospital within the campus, consists of a lecture theatre and various teaching rooms used by the Imperial College School of Medicine. In addition to this, it houses the Reynolds Bar, a centre for the various functions that the medical school holds.
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