Katana VentraIP

Westminster Hospital

Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 the hospital closed, and its resources were moved to the new Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site on Fulham Road.

Westminster Hospital

Westminster, London

51°29′40″N 0°07′41″W / 51.4945°N 0.1280°W / 51.4945; -0.1280

NHS England

General

1719

1992

a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died at the hospital from pneumonia in 1967.[3]

Clement Attlee

The Member of Parliament Airey Neave died at the hospital on 30 March 1979, after being badly wounded by a car bomb as he drove out of the nearby House of Commons that day.[4]

Conservative

(1921-1984), a British comedian was brought to the hospital and later pronounced dead after a heart attack while taking part in "Live on Her Majesty's," which was being transmitted from Her Majesty's Theatre in Westminster.[5]

Tommy Cooper

(1889–1962), a silent movie actress of the 1920s, died at the Hospital on 2 November 1962, having been admitted from her flat in South Street, Mayfair.[6]

Malvina Longfellow

(1868-1928), Scottish architect, visited the hospital in 1928 to have his tongue cancer surgically removed. However he died just a few weeks or months later.[7]

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

American author of Shaft and Academy Award winning screenwriter of The French Connection, also died in Westminster Hospital on 14 July 1984 of a perforated ulcer and complications. Tidyman was in London for a production meeting about a film to be made in Europe.[8]

Ernest Tidyman

(1660–1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first recorded successful appendectomy.[9]

Claudius Amyand

Mabel Helen Cave (1863–1953), Matron and Lady Superintendent from 1898 until she resigned through ill health in 1912.[10] She trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes.[10] In 1908, whilst Cave was matron, indoor food relief was instigated for the very poorest of the out-patients attending the hospital.[11]

RRC

(1688–1752) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery.[9]

William Cheselden

(1706–1757) was an English physician, known also as a dramatist.[9]

Benjamin Hoadly

(1830–1904) was a British medical doctor and author.[12]

Charles D. F. Phillips

CBE RRC DStJ (1854–1919), trained at the Westminster Hospital, 1877-1878,[13][10][14] matron of The London Hospital,1880 to 1919 and innovator in nurse education and practice.[13][10][14][15]

Eva Luckes

DBE, ARRC (1855–1948), worked at the Westminster Hospital in 1876[16] was a noted British nurse, midwife, reformer and first superintendent of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing renamed the Queen's Nursing Institute[17]

Rosalind Paget

RRC (1870–1938) trained as a nurse at the Westminster Hospital and later was Matron-in-Chief of the British Red Cross Society and President of the Royal College of Nursing[18]

Edith MacGregor Rome

d. 1980, matron (1915–1947)[19] and prominent in the development of the nursing profession in the UK[20]

Edith Smith

(1813–1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.[9]

John Snow

Matron 1951–1996 , elected Mayor of Shaftesbury 1970.[21]

Lavinia Young

List of hospitals in England