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John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR or the John Radcliffe) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England.It forms part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the Radcliffe Infirmary, the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007.
The trust is made up of four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, north Oxfordshire. [2]
Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electrical heart pump in the world.
John Radcliffe Hospital (including Oxford Children's Hospital and Oxford Eye Hospital) Oxford United Kingdom: 11,904 [87] University Hospital Heidelberg: Heidelberg Germany: 11,315 [88] Odense University Hospital: Odense Denmark: 11,281 [89] Inselspital: Bern Switzerland: 11,000 [90] Aarhus University Hospital: Aarhus Denmark: 10,200 [91]
The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central north Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street. Closed in 2007, after refurbishment the building was re-opened in October 2012 for use by the Faculty of Philosophy and both the Philosophy and Theology libraries of the ...
The US Army left the hospital at the end of the war and it was taken over by the local council and reopened as a conventional hospital in January 1946. [1] The Churchill Hospital came under common management with the John Radcliffe Hospital in April 1993 and with the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in November 2011. [3]
The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford [1] is a research institute located at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Founded in 1989 by Sir David Weatherall, the institute focuses on furthering our understanding of clinical medicine at a molecular level. It was one of the first institutes of its kind in ...
John Radcliffe (1650 – 1 November 1714 [3]) was an English physician, academic and politician. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford , including the Radcliffe Camera (in Radcliffe Square ), the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Radcliffe Science Library , [ 4 ] Radcliffe Primary Care and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him.