St Mary's Hospital, London

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{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox hospital St Mary's Hospital is a teaching hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Until 1988 the hospital ran St Mary's Hospital Medical School, part of the federal University of London. In 1988 it merged with Imperial College London, and then with Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1997 to form Imperial College School of Medicine. In 2007 Imperial College became an independent institution when it withdrew from the University of London.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Development of the hospital

The original block in Norfolk Place

The original block of St Mary's Hospital in Norfolk Place was designed by Thomas Hopper in the classical style.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great voluntary hospitals to be founded.<ref name=rsm>Template:Cite journal</ref> Among St Mary's founders was the surgeon Isaac Baker Brown, a controversial figure who performed numerous clitoridectomies at the London Surgical Home, his hospital for women, and who "immediately set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so."<ref name="Allen2000">Template:Cite book</ref> It was at St Mary's Hospital that C.R. Alder Wright first synthesized diamorphine in 1874.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Clarence Memorial Wing, designed by Sir William Emerson and built with its main frontage on Praed Street, opened in 1904.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref> It was at the hospital that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.<ref name=fleming>Template:Cite web</ref> Fleming's laboratory has been restored and incorporated into a museum about the discovery and his life and work.<ref name=fleming/>Template:NoteTag

The private Lindo wing, where there have been several royal and celebrity births, opened in November 1937;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> it was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, who made a large donation before his death in 1938.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Following the 1944 publication of a report by Sir William Goodenough advocating a minimum size for teaching hospitals,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and following the formation of the National Health Service in the 1948, several local hospitals became affiliated to St Mary's Hospital. These included Paddington General Hospital,<ref name=pgh>Template:Cite web</ref> the Samaritan Hospital for Women<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Western Eye Hospital.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In the 1950s, Felix Eastcott, a consultant surgeon and deputy director of the surgical unit at St Mary's Hospital, carried out pioneering work on carotid endarterectomy designed to reduce the risk of stroke.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Paddington General Hospital closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site in November 1986<ref name=pgh/> and, in common with the other London teaching hospitals who lost their independence at that time, the medical school of St Mary's Hospital merged with that of Imperial College London in 1988.<ref name=rsm/>

In 1987, as part of on-going rationalisation within the NHS, the hundred-year-old Paddington Green Children's Hospital was closed down, the listed buildings sold off and its services absorbed into St Mary's.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Notable births

Royal family

Other notable births

Notable staff and alumni

Associations

The nameplate of British Rail class 43 locomotive 43142, St Mary's Hospital Paddington, now on display in the Cambridge Wing of the hospital in London

St Mary's Hospital is located beside London Paddington railway station, the principal station of the Great Western Railway and its successors. In celebration of the association, a British Rail Class 43 (InterCity 125) locomotive, 43142, was named St Mary's Hospital, Paddington on 4 November 1986. The locomotive is still in service but, following changes of ownership, the name has now been removed. One of the large metal nameplates was acquired by the hospital, and is now displayed in the foyer of the Cambridge Wing.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Major trauma centre

St Mary's Hospital is one of four major trauma centres in London. The other three are King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and St George's Hospital in Tooting.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Cosmic charity

The charity Cosmic is an independent charity, supporting the work of the neonatal and paediatric intensive care services at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, both part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. The charity funds a range of specialist equipment for the units, including ventilators and patient monitoring systems for those being treated on the wards,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as providing practical and emotional support to families.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In the British preschool animated television series Peppa Pig, Peppa's little sister Evie was born at the Lindo Wing on 20 May 2025.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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