St George's Healthcare NHS Trust

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About Us St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust
With thousands of staff caring for patients around the clock St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare providers in southwest London Our main site St Georges Hospital in Tooting one of the countrys principal teaching hospitals is shared with St Georges University of London which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research We also run the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre in Wimbledon which cares for patients with neurological conditions such as stroke and spinal injuries

As well as acute hospital services we provide a wide variety of specialist and community hospital based care and a full range of community services to children adults older people and people with learning disabilities These services are provided from Queen Marys Hospital Roehampton 11 health centres and clinics schools and nurseries patients homes and Wandsworth Prison

With over 7000 dedicated staff St Georges Healthcare serves a population of 13 million across southwest London A large number of services such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery neurosciences and renal transplantation also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex totalling around 35 million people

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in South East England for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma Other services treat patients from all over the country such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for noncancer diseases The trust also provides a nationwide stateoftheart endoscopy training centre

History

History
St Georges is one of the oldest hospitals in London Originally founded in 1733 it was based for 250 years at Lanesborough House now the Lanesborough Hotel on Hyde Park Corner Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries St Georges established itself as a leading teaching hospital and many of its doctors such as Edward Jenner became famous in the history of science and medicine for their advances The Lanesborough site gradually expanded as medicine advanced and the first lecture in the new Medical School was given in 1803

By 1859 the demand for more beds was at an alltime high but Mr Atkinson Morley one of the hospitals governors and a wealthy hotel owner left St Georges pound150000 in his will A plot of land in Wimbledon was purchased and what was to become a worldfamous hospital the Atkinson Morley was founded there in 1869

As the decades went by and demand for more beds more staff and more space grew it became clear that St Georges needed to find a new site The Grove Fever Hospital site in Tooting was chosen in 1950 Services grew slowly on the new site but it was not until 1973 that the building of St Georges as we now know it began

The first Medical School buildings were opened in 1976 and the first ward block Lanesborough Wing in 1980 Further blocks were added gradually Jenner Wing opened in 1984 and St James Wing in 1988 The current site was completed in late 2003 with the move from the much loved Atkinson Morley Hospital and the completion of the Atkinson Morley Wing to provide a purpose built site for our neurology and cardiac care facilities