Guy's Hospital
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| Guy's Hospital | |
|---|---|
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | |
 Guy's Hospital entrance with Boland House on the left and the Chapel on the right | |
  Shown in Southwark | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Southwark, London, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS England |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | King's College London / KCLMS |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| Beds | 400[1] |
| History | |
| Founded | 1721 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk |
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
It is a large teaching hospital and is, with St Thomas' Hospital and King's College Hospital, the location of King's College London GKT School of Medical Education.
The Tower Wing (formerly known as Guy's Tower) is the world's second tallest hospital building, standing at 148.65 metres (487.7 ft) with 34 floors. It is currently one of the tallest buildings in London.
Contents
1 History
2 Facilities
3 Notable people who worked at Guy's
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
1820 Engraving of entrance by James Elmes and William Woolnoth.
The location of Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals, c. 1833
The hospital dates from 1721, when it was founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy, who had made a fortune from the South Sea Bubble and as a publisher of unlicensed Bibles.[2] It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital. Guy had been a Governor and benefactor of St Thomas' and his fellow Governors supported his intention by granting the south-side of St Thomas' Street for a peppercorn rent for 999 years.[2] Following his death in 1724, Thomas Guy was entombed at the hospital's chapel (also dating from the 18th century), in a tomb featuring a marble sculpture by John Bacon.[2]
The original buildings formed a courtyard facing St Thomas Street, comprising the hall on the east side and the Chapel, Matron's House and Surgeon's House on the west-side. A bequest of £180,000 by William Hunt in 1829, one of the largest charitable bequests in England in historic terms, allowed for a further hundred beds to be accommodated.[2] Hunt's name was given to the southern expansion of the hospital buildings which took place in 1850.[2] Two inner quadrangles were divided by a cloister which was later restyled and dedicated to the hospital's members who fell in the First World War. The east side comprised the care wards and the 'counting house' with the governors 'Burfoot Court Room'. The north-side quadrangle is dominated by a statue of Lord Nuffield (1877–1963) who was the chairman of governors for many years and also a major benefactor.[3]
In 1974, the hospital added the 34-storey Guy's Tower and 29-storey Guy's House: this complex was designed by Watkins Gray.[4] The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, which is dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, was opened by the Princess Royal in December 2004.[5]
In October 2005 children's departments moved to the Evelina London Children's Hospital in the grounds next to St Thomas's close to the Palace of Westminster.[6] A new cancer centre, built by Laing O'Rourke at a cost of £160 million, was completed in April 2016.[7]
Facilities[edit]
Surgery is performed at Guy's in 1941
| Tower Wing | |
|---|---|
 Tower Wing | |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Location | Southwark |
| Coordinates | 51°30′12″N 00°05′13″W / 51.50333°N 0.08694°W / 51.50333; -0.08694Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 00°05′13″W / 51.50333°N 0.08694°W / 51.50333; -0.08694 |
| Current tenants | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust |
| Construction started | 1968 |
| Construction stopped | 1974 |
| Owner | National Health Service |
| Height | 148.65 metres (487.7 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Watkins Gray |
Medical services at the Guy's site are now concentrated in the buildings to the east of Great Maze Pond: these buildings, which are connected, are known as Tower Wing, Bermondsey Wing, Southwark Wing and Borough Wing.[8] The Cancer Centre is in a separate building just to the south.[8] To the west of the Great Maze Pond is Guy's Campus which forms part of King's College London.[8]
At 148.65 metres (487.7 ft) high,[9] Guy's Tower (now called the Tower Wing) regained its tallest hospital building in the world status in 2014.[10] It has since been surpassed by the Outpatient Center at the Houston Methodist Hospital, in Houston, USA at 156.05 metres (512.0 ft).[11]
Notable people who worked at Guy's[edit]
Harold Ackroyd, Victoria Cross recipient WWI
Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
Stephanie Amiel, diabetologist
John Belchier, British surgeon
William Babington, founder member of the Geological Society
Benjamin Guy Babington invented the larygoscope
Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield Professor of Experimental Medicine- Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts
Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin at Guys and instructor of pathology
C. S. Forester, English novelist, studied medicine at Guy's but did not graduate
John Frederick France, ophthalmic surgeon- Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, surgeon and knighted for his part in the reform of the R.A.M.C.
Abraham Pineo Gesner, surgeon and inventor of kerosene refining- Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema and coined the term anorexia nervosa
John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions
John Hilton, great anatomist and surgeon
James Hinton, otologist
Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins
James Jurin, early work on epidemiology of the smallpox vaccine
John Keats, poet
Emily MacManus, Matron
Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term
Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- Sir Edwin Cooper Perry Superintendent; Dean of the Medical School; 1st Warden of the Residential College
- Sir Alfred Poland, the first to describe Poland syndrome
Philip Henry Pye-Smith, physician
Patricia Batty Shaw, social worker
Devi Prasad Shetty, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya- Professor Keith Simpson, Home Office Pathologist
Dr Jean M. Smellie, FRCP, HonFRCPCH, paediatrician
Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford, Conservative MP, was student and later senior registrar
Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government
Iain West, forensic pathologist- Sir Samuel Wilks
Ludwig Wittgenstein, worked anonymously as a hospital porter during World War II[12]
See also[edit]
- Healthcare in London
- List of hospitals in England
- King's Health Partners
- Francis Crick Institute
- Tall buildings in London
References[edit]
^ "Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: Vital Statistics". Archived from the original on 25 September 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2008..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ abcde "'Guy's Hospital', in Survey of London: Volume 22, Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark), ed. Howard Roberts and Walter H Godfrey". London: British History Online. 1950. p. 36-42. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "Viscount Nuffield". London Remembers. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "FindArticles.com - CBSi". findarticles.com. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
^ "King's Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases opens" (PDF). Comment. 1 December 2004. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "Evelina London Children's Hospital". Structurae. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "Laing O'Rourke hands over Guy's cancer centre". Building. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ abc "Campus maps:King's College London". King's College London. 28 June 2006. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "Guys Hospital, London - Building #100". Skyscrapernews.com. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^ "Guy's Lifts Tower regains its title as world's tallest hospital building". www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk.
^ "Methodist Outpatient Care Center". Emporis. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ "King's College London - Portering & philosophy". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
External links[edit]
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- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
- Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases
- Lists of Guy's Hospital students
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Categories:
- NHS hospitals in London
- Hospital buildings completed in 1974
- Health in the London Borough of Southwark
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