Whittington Hospital
| Whittington Health | |
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| The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Magdala Avenue, Archway, Islington, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°33′59″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5665°N 0.1395°WCoordinates: 51°33′59″N 0°08′22″W / 51.5665°N 0.1395°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | Acute hospital trust |
| Affiliated university | University College London |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 360 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1473 activity on site 1848 current hospital |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Whittington Hospital is a district general and teaching hospital of UCL Medical School and Middlesex University School of Health and Social Sciences. It is named after Sir Richard Whittington and managed by The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, operating as Whittington Health, an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community health services in the north London boroughs of Islington and Haringey.
Following an inspection in December 2015 of the Trust and its services, Whittington Health was rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission in July 2016 - with caring rated as Outstanding The Trust has a current deficit of £14.8m for the year ending 2015/16 - £265k better than its planned position.
Although medical services have been delivered on the site since the foundation of a leper colony in 1473, the current hospital has its origins in the Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital, built in 1848. In 1900, a workhouse opened on the grounds of the smallpox hospital and it became a nurses' home. Independently managed hospitals were founded on the Archway site in 1877 and the Highgate site in 1866. In 1948, all three hospitals were brought together under the control of the newly formed North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Archway Group Hospital Management Committee. The current hospital on the central St. Mary's site has 360 beds.
The Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital was designed by the architect Samuel Daukes as one of two isolation hospitals in London (the other was the London Fever Hospital in Liverpool Road) intended to care for smallpox patients during the epidemic at that time. It closed in 1896 and was officially re-opened as a workhouse infirmary in 1900 by the Duke and Duchess of York.
The past 50 years have seen the consolidation of all clinical services onto the St. Mary’s wing on Highgate Hill. In 1977, a new block opened containing Accident and Emergency, followed by the Great Northern Building in 1992. In 2006, work was completed on the construction of a new clinical block and main entrance on Magdala Avenue. The former smallpox hospital, now known as the Jenner Building, is currently in use as office accommodation.
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