Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a public
hospitalA hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
located on Fulham Road, in the
South KensingtonSouth Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
area of
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,
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.
The new
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was opened on the site once occupied by St Stephen's Hospital, and brought together staff, services and equipment from five London hospitals:
- the Westminster hospital in Horseferry Road (previously situated opposite Westminster Abbey) and its medical school in Page Street
- Westminster Children's hospital , originally in Vincent Square, then later amalgamated with the Westminster
- West London hospital, opened in 1860 and known from the early 1970s for its maternity services
- St Mary Abbots hospital, an infirmary occupying the site of what had been the Kensington work house
- St Stephen's hospital
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was designed by the architects Sheppard Robson.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a public
hospitalA hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
located on Fulham Road, in the
South KensingtonSouth Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
area of
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...
.
History
The new
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was opened on the site once occupied by St Stephen's Hospital, and brought together staff, services and equipment from five London hospitals:
- the Westminster hospital in Horseferry Road (previously situated opposite Westminster Abbey) and its medical school in Page Street
- Westminster Children's hospital , originally in Vincent Square, then later amalgamated with the Westminster
- West London hospital, opened in 1860 and known from the early 1970s for its maternity services
- St Mary Abbots hospital, an infirmary occupying the site of what had been the Kensington work house
- St Stephen's hospital
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was designed by the architects Sheppard Robson. The hospital displays many treasures from the old hospitals. Some of these are in the first floor Hospital Chapel, including an 16th century painting by Veronese from the Westminster Hospital and stained glass windows from Westminster , St Mary Abbots and the Westminster Children's Hospitals.
The hospital is managed by the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Hand Trauma
The hospital provides a number of services which include a specialist
hand surgeryThe field of hand surgery deals with both surgical and non-surgical treatment of conditions and problems that may take place in the hand or upper extremity . Hand surgery may be practiced by graduates of general surgery, orthopedic surgery and plastic surgery...
/management unit sometimes known as HMU.
Access to these services is often made via
GPA general practitioner or GP is a medical practitioner who provides primary care and specializes in family medicine. A general practitioner treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education for all ages and both sexes...
referral. However, various
A&EThe emergency department , sometimes termed the emergency room , emergency ward , accident & emergency department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be...
departments such as those at
Charing CrossCharing Cross Hospital is a hospital in London, England. It was established in 1823 as the West London Infirmary, and was originally located in Villiers Street, near Charing Cross in the heart of the metropolis...
,
St MarysSt Mary's Hospital is a hospital located in Paddington, London, England. It was founded in 1845. It is operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, an academic health science centre, which also operates Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital and...
and St Charles Hospital can make urgent
tertiaryIn medicine, tertiary healthcare is specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a center that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment....
referrals by contacting the
Plastic surgeryPlastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes two main fields: body modification and reconstructive surgery...
SHOA senior house officer is a junior doctor undergoing specialist training in the United Kingdom National Health Service or in the Republic of Ireland. SHOs are supervised by consultants, who oversee their training and are their designated clinical supervisors...
on-call at Chelsea and Westminster through the telephone switchboard.
Patients are then given a copy of their
A&EThe emergency department , sometimes termed the emergency room , emergency ward , accident & emergency department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be...
notes as well as any
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s. These can then be used by the medical staff in the Hand
TraumaIn medical terminology, blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma refers to a type of physical trauma caused to a body part, either by impact, injury or physical attack; the latter usually being referred to as blunt force trauma...
clinic at Chelsea and Westminster. These outpatient clinics are currently operated by Mr Bantick and Mr Eckersley's medical teams
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This system, which is based on urgently referred patients from A&E being handed a relevant portion of their medical notes, may change with the impending implementation of the
Electronic medical recordFor information on shared or comprehensive computerised records in health care in enterprise wide systems see electronic health recordAn electronic medical record is usually a computerized legal medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital and doctor's surgery...
.
HIV / GUM
The hospital’s
HIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid,...
/
GUMGenitourinary medicine is a portmanteau that includes aspects of andrology, gynecology and urology. It is primarily related to medicine dealing with sexually transmitted diseases....
Clinical Directorate was established in April, 1991
http://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/services/, and is today the largest specialist
HIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid,...
unit in Europe , caring for more than 5,000 HIV patients, and enjoys a worldwide reputation as a centre of excellence in both the care of HIV-positive patients and a wide range of associated clinical research. Its director, Professor Brian Gazzard , is one of the world's leading authorities on HIV, founded the British HIV Association, serves as Chairman of the British HIV Guidelines Writing Committee, and is a member of both the Scientific Committee of the World AIDS Congress and of the
IASThe International AIDS Society is the world’s independent association of HIV professionals, with over 14,000 members in 188 countries working at all levels of the global response to HIV/AIDS. IAS members represent scientists, clinicians, public health, policy experts and community practitioners on...
USA Guidelines Committee.
The St Stephen’s Centre at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital is also home to the core laboratory of the
International AIDS Vaccine InitiativeThe International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is a global not-for-profit, public-private partnership working to accelerate the development of vaccines to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. IAVI researches and develops vaccine candidates, conducts policy analyses, and serves as an advocate for the field...
(IAVI).
Education
In 1984,
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...
merged with the
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...
to form
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...
. This was part of a series of mergers of London medical schools in the early 1980s, foreshadowing a larger series in the late 1990s, which brought all the institutes together into five large schools. In 1997, as part of the second wave, CXWMS merged with Imperial College, London (and its medical department,
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...
), the National Heart and 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:...
, to form
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....
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital maintains strong ties with
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....
as numerous students undergo clinical attachments in specialties such as gastrointestinal surgery, cardiology and obstetrics & gynaecology, to name a few.
Trust
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 October 2006. It is based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and also manages a number of sexual health clinics at 56 Dean Street, the West London Centre for Sexual Health at Charing Cross Hospital, and the St Stephen's Centre. The Trust's chief executive is Heather Lawerence and its chairman is Professor Sir Christopher Edwards.
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