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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.
Its services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes. The trust runs Warneford Hospital in Headington, Oxford and has close links to the universities of Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Buckinghamshire, Reading and Bath. They are part of the Oxford Academic Health Science Centre, working closely with university colleagues ...
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. [3]
In 2019 NHS England planned to remove the contract for PET-CT scanning from the trust's Churchill Hospital and award it to a private contractor, InHealth. This was opposed by local MPs, and 10,000 people signed a petition against the move, saying it could produce an inferior service. [ 10 ]
The Old Road Campus is a University of Oxford site south of Old Road, in Headington, east Oxford, England. The Churchill Hospital , a teaching hospital managed by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , is to the south.
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]
In recognition of Morris' contribution, the hospital became the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in 1930. [3] In 1936, Lord Nuffield announced a further gift to Oxford University Medical School which created five clinical chairs, and Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone became the first Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1937.
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 ...