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Despite the move, the hospital kept the name 'Charing Cross'; at first it was called 'Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham' but eventually the 'Fulham' part was dropped. [4] The Charing Cross Hospital building in Agar Street (a Grade II listed building since 1970) [6] was converted for use in the 1990s and became Charing Cross police station. [7]
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.
1827 – West London Infirmary becomes known as Charing Cross Hospital; 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
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 ...
The Trust was designated a Genomic Medicine Centre in 2014. The same year, Hammersmith Hospital became the first in Europe to use a new heart mapping system to treat patients with complicated heart rhythm disorders. In a UK first in 2016, focused ultrasound was used at Charing Cross Hospital to treat essential tremor without brain surgery.
The Department of Brain Sciences is the centre of research and teaching in neuroscience and mental health at Imperial College London. [23] It is one of eight academic departments within the College's Faculty of Medicine [24] and was established following a Faculty reorganisation in 2019. [25]
Lennox Ross Broster, OBE (1889 – 12 April 1965) was a South African-born surgeon who spent most of his career as a consultant at Charing Cross Hospital, London.He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I, for which he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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 .