Charing Cross Hospital

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Charing Cross Hospital Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Location
Place	Hammersmith London, England, (UK)
Organisation
Care System	Public NHS
Hospital Type	Teaching
Affiliated University	Imperial College London
Services
Emergency Dept.	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	Unknown
History
Founded	1827
Links
Website	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Homepage
See also	Hospitals in England

Charing 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. It is now located several miles to the west of the city centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

The institution had its origins in a meeting initiated by Dr Benjamin Golding 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 one of the Imperial College School of Medicine's teaching hospitals and is part of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. It is a tertiary referral centre for Neurosurgery, and is a national centre of excellence for gestational trophoblastic disease.

Originally supporting Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School was formed in 1984 by the merger with Westminster Hospital Medical School. In 1997, CXWMS merged with Imperial College, London (whose medical department was at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington), The National Heart & Lung Institute and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (at Hammersmith Hospital) to create a large new institution, Imperial College School of Medicine.

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.

[edit] External links

• The Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's official site
• A page about the hospital archives which contains some historical information about the hospital