Specialization Of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
Cardiology
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Daibetes, Endocrinology
Dentistry
Dermatology
ENT
Gastro-enterology
General Medicine
General Surgeon
Gynaecology
Hematologist
Kidney Transplantation and Expanded Dialysis Unit
Maxillofacial Surgery
Neuro Surgeon
Neurologist
Obestetrician/Gynecologist
Oncologist
Orthopedics
Paediatrics
Pain Management
Pathology Lab
Plastic Surgery
Urology
Vascular Surgeon
About St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
** About Us St George's Healthcare NHS Trust **
With thousands of staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare providers in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. We also run the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre in Wimbledon, which cares for patients with neurological conditions, such as stroke and spinal injuries.
As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist and community hospital based care and a full range of community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients' homes and Wandsworth Prison.
With over 7,000 dedicated staff, St George's Healthcare serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in South East England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
History Of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
** History **
St George's is one of the oldest hospitals in London. Originally founded in 1733, it was based for 250 years at Lanesborough House, now the Lanesborough Hotel, on Hyde Park Corner. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, St George's established itself as a leading teaching hospital, and many of its doctors - such as Edward Jenner- became famous in the history of science and medicine for their advances. The Lanesborough site gradually expanded as medicine advanced, and the first lecture in the new Medical School was given in 1803.
By 1859, the demand for more beds was at an all-time high, but Mr Atkinson Morley, one of the hospital's governors, and a wealthy hotel owner, left St George's £150,000 in his will. A plot of land in Wimbledon was purchased and what was to become a world-famous hospital - the Atkinson Morley - was founded there in 1869.
As the decades went by and demand for more beds, more staff and more space grew, it became clear that St George's needed to find a new site. The Grove Fever Hospital site in Tooting was chosen in 1950. Services grew slowly on the new site, but it was not until 1973 that the building of St George's as we now know it began.
The first Medical School buildings were opened in 1976 and the first ward block (Lanesborough Wing) in 1980. Further blocks were added gradually. Jenner Wing opened in 1984 and St James Wing in 1988. The current site was completed in late 2003 with the move from the much loved Atkinson Morley Hospital and the completion of the Atkinson Morley Wing, to provide a purpose built site for our neurology and cardiac care facilities.
