St Mary's Hospital, London
| St Mary's Hospital | |
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| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Paddington, London, W2, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°31′2″N 0°10′23″W / 51.51722°N 0.17306°WCoordinates: 51°31′2″N 0°10′23″W / 51.51722°N 0.17306°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Imperial College London |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 495 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1845 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United Kingdom |
St Mary's Hospital is a hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, and Western Eye Hospital.
Until 1988 the hospital ran St Mary's Hospital Medical School, part of the federal University of London. In 1988 it merged with Imperial College London, and then with Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1997 to form Imperial College School of Medicine. In 2007 Imperial College became an independent institution when it withdrew from the University of London.
St Mary's Hospital first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great voluntary hospitals to be founded.
With the shift towards community healthcare delivered in the early 20th century, partly due to the social medicine revolution, pressure on bed occupancy relaxed, and with the formation of the National Health Service in the 1940s, many of the local hospitals of the St Mary's teaching hospital group eventually closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site:
St Charles' Hospital, formerly the Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary, and the Western Eye Hospital, formerly the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, remained as part of the St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust, now all part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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