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The hospital has its origins in the Penzance Dispensary established in 1809. [1] This became the West Cornwall Dispensary and Infirmary in 1873 and the West Cornwall Hospital in 1928. [1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948. [1] A new CT scanner and new X-ray equipment were installed at the hospital in spring 2018. [2]
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The trust was established as the Royal Cornwall Hospitals and West Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust on 1 November 1991, and became operational on 1 April 1992. It changed its name to its current name soon after on 9 June 1992. [3] [4]
The hospital has its origins in the Redruth Mines Infirmary, which was largely financed by Lord Robartes and completed in 1863. [1] An accident ward was added in 1871. [2] The West Cornwall Women's Hospital was completed on an adjacent site in 1899, [3] and the two hospitals amalgamated in 1901.
[5] [6] News outlets often use West Cornwall without any obvious correlation to either way of defining the area, but simply to refer to anywhere west of Truro. [7] [8] [9] West Cornwall Hospital is located in Penzance, West Cornwall. [10] Penzance, St Ives, Hayle, Helston and Land's End are notable places located in West Cornwall.
In August 2001 the private Heart Hospital was acquired by UCLH and became the new home for all of the Trust's cardiac services, which had previously been housed in the Middlesex Hospital. [5] In 2002 the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital joined UCLH and in July 2004 UCLH was one of the first NHS trusts to be granted foundation trust status. [5]
Clement Attlee was admitted to the clinic for a prostatectomy in September 1939. [29] John F. Kennedy was diagnosed with Addison's disease at the clinic in September 1947. [30] Sir Anthony Eden went into the London Clinic for a cholecystectomy in April 1953. [31] Adnan Menderes recovered in the London Clinic after being involved in an air crash ...