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Atkinson Morley Hospital (AMH) was located at Copse Hill near Wimbledon, South-West London, England from 1869 until 2003. Initially a convalescent hospital, it became one of the most advanced brain surgery centres in the world, and was involved in the development of the CT scanner.
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- NHS England
Jul 5, 2015 · July 5, 2015 / Harriet Richardson. We visited the former Atkinson Morley Hospital in 1992 as part of the RCHME Hospitals Project. It was then still functioning as an acute hospital, specialising in brain surgery. The hospital closed in 2003 and remained empty and decaying for more than ten years.
Aug 30, 2023 · Atkinson Morley Hospital (AMH) was located at Copse Hill near Wimbledon, South-West London, England from 1869 until 2003. Initially a convalescent hospital, it became one of the most advanced brain surgery centres in the world, and was involved in the development of the CT scanner.
Oct 26, 2017 · Case in point: Atkinson Morley Hospital, a grand brick building constructed in 1869 and where a pioneering neurology unit developed the CT scanner in the 1970s. Today that building is home to...
In 2004, neuroscience services located at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon moved to the brand new Atkinson Morley Wing on the main St George's site. This addition to the hospital now also houses cardiac and cardiothoracic services which have moved from the old fever hospital wards. St George's today provides a total of over 1,000 beds ...
- Blackshaw Road, London, SW17 0QT
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Feb 10, 2012 · Nostalgia. Wimbledon. By The Wimbledon Society. Next month’s closure of the 32-bed Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre will mark the end of 143 years of hospitals at Copse Hill, West Wimbledon. Not that long ago there were three of them - Atkinson Morley’s, Wimbledon Hospital, and the Wolfson itself.
The first clinical scanner was built and installed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon (a suburb of London) in 1971. The first scans were performed on parts of preserved human brains, bodies of pigs, and brains of freshly killed steers.
