| Guy's Hospital Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Guy's Tower from London Bridge station. London Bridge station is a National Rail and London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark, which occupies a large area on two levels immediately Hospital coat of arms shown above |
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| Place | Southwark London, England, (UK) |
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| Care System | Public NHS |
| Hospital Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated University | King's College London |
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| Emergency Dept. | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | Unknown |
| Speciality | Dentistry |
| History | |
| Founded | 1721 |
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| Website | Guy's & St Thomas' Trust Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in England |
Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in south east London, England. Southwark or The Borough is an area of south-east London in the London Borough of Southwark, situated 1 London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article describes policy-related systems For the article on hospital networks which are sometimes referred to as health care systems see Hospital network. The National Health Service is the name commonly used to refer to the four Publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom collectively or individually (although A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for A teaching hospital is a Hospital that in addition to delivering medical care to patients also provides Clinical education and training to future and current doctors A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London. Dentistry' is the "evaluation diagnosis prevention and/or treatment (nonsurgical surgical or related procedures of diseases disorders and/or conditions of the oral cavity The following is a list of currently operating Hospitals in England. The National Health Service is the name commonly used to refer to the four Publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom collectively or individually (although A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for The London Borough of Southwark ( is a London borough in south east London, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It is administratively a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It is a large teaching hospital and is home to the King's College London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas's Hospitals (formerly known as the GKT School of Medicine). King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London. The GKT (Guy's King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, London, was the name given to the medical school faculty of King's College London.
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History
It was founded in 1721 by Sir Thomas Guy (1644/45-December 27 1724), a publisher who had made a fortune in the South Sea Bubble. Year 1721 ( MDCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Thomas Guy (1644-1724 was a British bookseller speculator and de facto founder of Guy's Hospital, London Early life Thomas Guy was born a son of a lighterman For the Noel Coward play see South Sea Bubble (play. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was an Economic bubble that occurred It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital. St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS Hospital in Lambeth, London, England.
Guy's has expanded over the centuries. The original buildings comprised a courtyard facing St Thomas Street, and an inner quadrangle. Despite substantial bomb damage during World War II, the original 18th century chapel remains intact including the tomb of Thomas Guy with a very fine marble sculpture by John Bacon. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including John Bacon ( November 24, 1740 &ndash August 4, 1799) was a British sculptor.
A bequest of £200,000 by William Hunt in 1829, one of the largest charitable bequests in England in historic terms, allowed for a further hundred beds to be accommodated. For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Hunt's name was given to the southern expansion of the hospital buildings. These were replaced c. 2000 by new academic buildings for King's College, known as New Hunt's House.
In 1974, the hospital added the 34 storey Guy's Tower. At 143 metres (469 ft) high, this is the tallest hospital building in the world, and the 11th tallest building in London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. It was designed by Watkins Gray. [1] Guy's Tower is divided into two sections of which the top floors (floors 18-30) represent the dental school, where students of King's College London Dental School study and practice, and the lower floors (Ground-18) represent the medical departments.
The latest addition to the clinical buildings is Thomas Guy House, completed in 1995. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 This was originally to have been known as Philip Harris House, but the benefactor withdrew his funding in protest at the enforced merger of Guy's with St Thomas' Hospital
Over 8,000 staff work in Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. Philip Charles Harris Baron Harris of Peckham (born 15 September in Peckham South London 1942 is a Conservative member of the House of Lords St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS Hospital in Lambeth, London, England. They are two of the oldest teaching hospitals, nearly 900 years old, and they are situated right in the heart of the capital. One of the services that the trust provides is dental care, looking after over 120,000 patients a year.
The site
The site consists of 19 distinct, but interconnected, buildings with functions including public medical services, teaching, research and student residence. James Elmes ( 15 October 1782, London &ndash 2 April 1862, Greenwich) was an English Architect,
The buildings which compose the campus are [2]:
Major hospital buildings containing wards
- Guy's Tower
- New Guy's House
- Thomas Guy House
Research for the Trust's FACE wayfinding project identified that the similarity of current names led to widespread confusion for patients and visitors. From January 2008, as part of a wider project to ease wayfinding (which includes changing the postal address of the hospital from St Thomas Street to Great Maze Pond) the names of these three buildings will change:
- Guy's Tower will become Tower Wing;
- New Guy's House will become Borough Wing
- Thomas Guy House will be divided up into Southwark Wing and Bermondsey Wing.
Each wing will have a new colour coded signing system.
Other buildings
- Boland House
- Capital House
- The Chapel
- Conybeare House
- Doyles House
- Greenwood Theatre
- Henriette Raphael House
- Hodgkin Building
- Munro Centre
- New Hunt's House
- Nuffield House
- Nuffield Nurses' Home
- Old Guy's House
- Pavy Gym
- Shepherd's House
- Tabard House
- Three Tuns House
- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
- Wolfson House
Guy's Dental Hospital
Guy's Hospital near London Bridge (5 minutes walk from the overground/underground stations) is home to the largest dental hospital in Europe. Its services include routine dentistry, dental surgery, oral medicine and specialist dentistry. In addition Guy's also provides emergency dental services, and oral and facial surgery with the majority of work being performed by students.
Dental work involves dental surgeons, as well as dental nurses, dental hygienists, dental therapists and dental technicians; all of which are equally important to the efficiency of the hospital's dental care services.
Developments and changes
On 31 October 2005 children's departments at Guy's moved to the newly constructed Evelina Children's Hospital. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Evelina Children's Hospital is a specialist NHS Hospital in London.
The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases was built following a generous donation from the Wolfson Foundation. This centre brings under one roof a number of research groups dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions including Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. Alzheimer's disease ( AD) also called Alzheimer disease or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of Dementia. A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the Central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's Spinal cord injury causes myelopathy or damage to white matter or myelinated fiber tracts that carry sensation and motor signals to and from the brain
Famous physicians who worked at Guy's
- Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
- Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts
- Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper
- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin and instructor of pathology
- Sir Samuel Wilks
- Sir Alfred Poland, the first to describe Poland syndrome
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins
- Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema
- James Hinton, otologist
- John Hilton, great anatomist and surgeon
- Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield
- Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government
- James Jurin, early work on epidemiology of the smallpox vaccine
- Abraham Pineo Gesner, surgeon and inventor of kerosene refining
- John Keats, writer
See also
- Guy's Hospital Football Club founded in (1843) has a claim to being the oldest (rugby) football club still in existence. Thomas Addison (April 1793 - June 29, 1860) was a renowned 19th-century English physician and Addison's disease (also known as chronic Adrenal insufficiency, '''hypocortisolism''' or '''hypocorticism) is a rare Endocrine disorder For the British historian his nephew with the same name see Thomas Hodgkin. Hodgkin's lymphoma, also known as Hodgkin's disease is a type of Lymphoma first described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832 Richard Bright ( September 28[[ 789]] &ndash December 16[[ 858]] was an English Physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern Medicine as acute or chronic Nephritis Sir Astley Paston Cooper 1st Baronet ( August 23, 1768 &ndash February 12, 1841) English surgeon and Anatomist Cooper's ligaments (also known as the suspensory ligaments of Cooper and the fibrocollegenous septa) are Connective tissue in the Breast that The breast is the upper Ventral region of an animal’s Torso, particularly that of Mammals including Human beings. Edward Cock (1805&ndash1892 British surgeon, was a nephew of Sir Astley Cooper, and through him became at an early age a member of the staff of the Borough Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 &ndash 11 March 1955 was a Scottish Biologist and Pharmacologist. Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911 British Physician and Biographer. Sir Alfred Poland ( 1822 - August 21, 1872) was a 19th century British Surgeon. Poland syndrome (also Poland's syndrome, Poland's syndactyly and Poland's anomaly) is a rare birth defect characterized by underdevelopment or Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS ( June 20, 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex - May 16, 1947 Cambridge A vitamin is an Organic compound required as a Nutrient in tiny amounts by an Organism. Sir William Withey Gull 1st Baronet ( December 31, 1816 – January 29, 1890) was an English Physician. Myxedema (British English myxoedema) is a skin and tissue disorder usually due to severe prolonged Hypothyroidism. James Hinton ( 26 November 1822 &ndash 16 December 1875) was an English surgeon and Author. John Hilton (1804 &ndash September 14, 1878) British surgeon, was born at Castle Hedingham, in Essex. Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration Humphrey Fortescue Osmond ( July 1, 1917 - February 6, 2004) was a British Psychiatrist, known for inventing Psychedelic drugs are Psychoactive drugs whose primary action is to alter the thought processes of the brain and perception of the mind William John Hughes Butterfield Baron Butterfield, OBE, FRCP ( 28 March, 1920 – 22 July 2000) was a leading British William Frederick Pavy (1829-1911 was a British Physician and Physiologist and the discoverer of Pavy's disease, a cyclic or recurrent physiologic The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London was a learned society of Physicians and surgeons which was founded in 1805 by 26 personalities in these fields who had John Braxton Hicks (1823&ndash August 28, 1897) was a 19th century English doctor who specialised in Obstetrics. The uterus (from the Latin word for womb) is the major Female reproductive organ of most Mammals including Humans One end the Sir Gerard Folliot Vaughan ( June 11 1923 &ndash July 29 2003) was a Psychiatrist and UK politician who reached ministerial A psychiatrist (also archaically called an alienist) is a Physician who specializes in Psychiatry and is certified in treating Mental disorders A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person A minister or a secretary is a Politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional Government. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 James Jurin FRS FRCP ( baptised 15 December 1684 - 29 March 1750) was an English Scientist Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the Health and Illness of populations and serves as the foundation and Logic of interventions made in the The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine ever to be developed Abraham Pineo Gesner, born May 2, 1797 in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, Canada ( – died April 29, 1864 Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage is a Combustible Hydrocarbon liquid The Guy's Hospital Football Club, founded in 1843 at Guy's Hospital, in Southwark, London, claims to be the world's First football club The title of the world's oldest Football club, or the oldest club in a particular country is often disputed or is claimed by several different clubs across several different
- King's College London
- London Bridge Tower, a 1000 ft skyscraper being built next to Guy's
- Tall buildings in London
References
- ^ Obituary: A. Stuart Gray
- ^ Guy's: detail map :Campus maps :King's College London. King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London. Shard London Bridge, also known as London Bridge Tower, the Shard of Glass and 32 London Bridge is a Supertall Skyscraper soon to This list of the tallest buildings and structures in London ranks Skyscrapers and Towers in the city of London, United Kingdom by height King's College London (2006-06-28). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Retrieved on 2006-12-09. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city
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