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The Westminster Hospital Medical School was one of the constituent medical schools of Imperial College School of Medicine. It was formally founded in 1834 by George Guthrie, an ex-military surgeon – although students had been taken on at Westminster Hospital almost from the hospital's foundation in 1719. The hospital and medical school moved ...
- 1834 (Westminster Hospital Medical School), 1984 (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School), 1997 (Imperial College School of Medicine)
- Medical school
- 1719– in The Beginning
- 1827 – Medical Duel
- 1831 – The First Westminster Hospital New Build
- 1847 – Pioneering Surgery
- The 1920s – Women at Westminster
- 1939 - 1945 – Westminster During The Blitz
- 1945 – Unsung War Heroes
- 1951 – Secret Royal Surgery
- 1973 – The First Unrelated Bone Marrow Transplant
- 1984 – 150 Years of Medical Education
Westminster Hospital owes its foundation to charity and was the first of a new wave of voluntary hospitals established in the 18th century. Mr Henry Hoare and three friends founded the original Westminster Hospital in 1719, declaring that the hospital should ‘provide poor sick people...with necessary food and physic during illness'. Mr Henry Hoare ...
A scandal broke out in 1827 when a feud emerged between rival surgeons. George Guthrie and Charles Fergusson Forbes had a disagreement on the running of the Westminster Eye Infirmary, so Forbes challenged him to a duel. Guthrie refused, but one of his pupils, Hale Thompson, took up the offer instead. In a final showdown, Thompson and Forbes faced e...
Westminster Hospital had several different locations over its 275 years of operation before closing in 1992 to reopen as the new Chelsea and Westminster. In 1831, the hospital outgrew its current location and a new site opposite the west door of the great Westminster Abbey was found. A new and spacious building was completed and opened in 1834 at a...
Throughout its history, the hospital had a number of distinguished medical students and staff including Hale Thompson who in 1847 performed the first operation under general anaesthetic at the hospital. The renowned physician John Snowwho was also a pioneer in the field of anaesthetics did one-year of clinical practice at Westminster Hospital. Snow...
Westminster Hospital was slightly behind the times in providing equal opportunities to women in medicine. Until 1916, the middle of World War I, women were still barred from the Medical School; it was only the loss of a substantial portion of the male population to the war effort which prompted the hospital to allow entry to women in 1916. This sto...
The hospital remained operational throughout both World Wars, including several bombing attacks during the Blitz with miraculously no fatalities. It played an important role as a casualty clearing station and a major accident unit in the early days of the Blitz. The darkest days of the Blitz produced much camaraderie between the medical staff, and ...
The medical school also played a part in war efforts. In 1945 a group of 11 Westminster medical students volunteered to work in Holland for famine relief but were suddenlydiverted to Bergen-Belsen to provide front-line relief after its liberation by the Allies. These students undertook heroic work in clearing the huts and attempting to treat many s...
In 1951 HM King George VI was diagnosed with lung cancer. An operation to remove the left lung was undertaken by Clement Price-Thomas, who was one of the pioneers of thoracic surgery in London. However, he was persuaded to undertake the procedure in an operating room to be set up in Buckingham Palace. In the days before the operation the surgical s...
In 1973, Simon Bostic was the first patient to successfully receive a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, at the Westminster Children's Hospital. The hunt for a bone marrow donor to save his life inspired Anthony Nolan's mother, Shirley, to start a bone marrow register as Anthony had a rare blood condition. The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow...
Medical education initially emerged at Westminster in 1734 when there was the first mention of ‘cubs’, as these initial students were called. At first, three cubs were allowed to each staff surgeon, and the numbers slowly increased. George Guthrie formally founded the school in 1834. 1905 saw the end of pre-clinical subjects at Westminster, and the...
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School existed as a legal entity for 13 years, as the midpoint of a series of mergers which strategically consolidated the many small medical schools in west London into one large institution under the aegis of Imperial College London . In 1984, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and Westminster Hospital ...
- 1818 (Charing Cross Hospital Medical School), 1834 (Westminster Hospital Medical School), 1984 (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School), 1997 (Imperial College School of Medicine)
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David Woods, student at Westminster Medical School from 1968. Many former staff and students relate warm memories of their life at Westminster Medical School, especially their time in clinical practice on the wards of the hospital on St John’s Square. Westminster Medical School was characterised by a strong sense of camaraderie, companionship ...
The School's development continued from 1834 and after a brief hiatus in 1847-8, was re-established in 1849. 1854 - St Mary's Hospital Medical School established. St Mary's Hospital was opened in 1851 by Samuel Lane, surgeon and anatomist, and from its inception was intended to be a teaching hospital. The Medical School was founded in 1854 ...
The school became part of Imperial College School of Medicine on its formation in 1997. Westminster Hospital Medical School was established in 1834 as a private school in Dean Street, London, by administrators and medical staff, notably G J Guthrie. By 1841, the hospital governors decided to purchase the buildings.
1953. Instruction began at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1834 and at Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1849. The schools merged in August 1984, forming Charing Cross & Westminster Medical Schools. The Charing Cross and Westminster Medical Schools became part of the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine in August 1997.
