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Charing Cross Hospital is district general hospital and teaching hospital located in Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central London.
Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School in 1881, in Charing Cross. Charing Cross Hospital was founded in 1818, as the 'West London Infirmary and Dispensary', by Dr Benjamin Golding, to meet the needs of the poor who flocked to the cities in search of work in the new factories. The hospital started training medical students in 1822.
1834 – Charing Cross Hospital moves to Agar Street, off Trafalgar Square; 1973 – Charing Cross Hospital moves to Hammersmith, front facade of old building retained; 1976 – Reynolds Building completed to house the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School; 1984 – Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and rival Westminster Hospital Medical ...
The name of the lost hamlet, Charing, is derived from the Old English word cierring, a river bend, in this case, referring to a bend in the Thames. [5] [6] [7] A debunked folk etymology claimed the name is a corruption of chère reine ("dear queen" in French), but the name pre-dates Queen Eleanor's death by at least a hundred years.
It currently manages five hospitals: Charing Cross Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital; Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital; St Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital. In 2019/20 Imperial College Healthcare had a turnover of £1.3 billion, employed approximately 13,000 people and treated about 1.3 million patients. [3]
Based at the Charing Cross Hospital site in Hammersmith and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Chelsea, the new medical school took the form of its larger precursor in using "X" as an abbreviation for "Cross". The medical school also maintained academic units at the university hospitals of Queen Mary's Roehampton, West Middlesex, Ashford and ...
Charing Cross Police Station is a Metropolitan Police Service station in London's Charing Cross area. Its site in Agar Street was formerly the main site of Charing Cross Hospital. [1] The station comprises two individually listed Grade II listed buildings. [2] [3]
Medical teaching at Imperial dates back to the founding of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1823, which was followed by other medical schools including Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Medical School, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.