St James's University Hospital, Leeds
| St James's University Hospital | |
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| The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | |
Main Entrance, St James's University Hospital (Gledhow Wing ahead, Lincoln wing on the left)
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| Geography | |
| Location | Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°48′29″N 1°31′7″W / 53.80806°N 1.51861°WCoordinates: 53°48′29″N 1°31′7″W / 53.80806°N 1.51861°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Leeds |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 997 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1925 replacing the Poor Law Infirmary which had its origin in 1848 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
St. James's University Hospital is in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and is popularly known as Jimmy's being one of the United Kingdom's most famous hospitals, due to its coverage on television.
St James's was formerly claimed to be the largest teaching hospital in Europe. It is one of six centres which conduct liver transplants. St James's was the location of the first living-related donor liver transplant on the NHS. It is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, along with the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), Seacroft Hospital, Wharfedale Hospital, Chapel Allerton Hospital and until April 2008 (when it closed), Cookridge Hospital. Both St James's and the LGI are extensively involved in the teaching of medical students, nurses and junior doctors.
All of the Hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills (Chancellor's Wing is named after the then Chancellor of the University of Leeds, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who opened the building in 1972). The current Hospital wings are:
A New Oncology building, the Bexley Wing, containing the St James's Institute of Oncology, accepted its first patients in December 2007. It was officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal on 17 July 2008. The building is one of Europe's largest cancer centres, with 1,600 staff and 350 beds. There is a notable Cystic fibrosis unit in the Gledhow wing which offers specialist inpatient and outpatient services and research, and has its own method of management guidelines called the "Cystic Fibrosis Leeds method of management".
The University of Leeds has a large presence at the St James's site with a new molecular medicine centre, the LIMM building. Also the Sir William Tweddle clinical science building which houses several of the academic research departments as well as a university library.
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