Guy's Hospital Explained

Guy's Hospital
Org/Group:Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Location:Great Maze Pond, Southwark SE1 9RT
Region:London
Country:England
Healthcare:NHS England
Type:Teaching
Emergency:No
Affiliation:King's College London / KCLMS
Beds:400[1]
Publictransit: London Bridge
Map Type:United Kingdom London Southwark

Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by Thomas Guy, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.

It is a large teaching hospital and is, with St Thomas' Hospital and King's College Hospital, the location of King's College London GKT School of Medical Education.

The hospital's Tower Wing (originally known as Guy's Tower) was, when built in 1974, the tallest hospital building in the world, standing at with 34 floors. The tower was overtaken as the world's tallest healthcare-related building by The Belaire in New York City in 1988. As of June 2019, the Tower Wing, which remains one of the tallest buildings in London, is the world's fifth-tallest hospital building.[2]

History

The hospital dates from 1721, when it was founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy, who had made a fortune as a printer of Bibles and greatly increased it by speculating in the South Sea Bubble.[3] It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital. Guy had been a governor and benefactor of St Thomas' and his fellow governors supported his intention by granting the south-side of St Thomas Street for a peppercorn rent for 999 years.[4] Following his death in 1724, Thomas Guy was entombed at the hospital's chapel (also dating from the 18th century), in a tomb featuring a marble sculpture by John Bacon.[4]

The original buildings formed a courtyard facing St Thomas Street, comprising the hall on the east side and the chapel, Matron's House and Surgeon's House on the west side. The original main buildings were built by the King's Master Mason, John Deval, in 1739.[5]

A bequest of £180,000 by William Hunt in 1829, one of the largest charitable bequests in England in historic terms, allowed for a further hundred beds to be accommodated.[4] Hunt's name was given to the southern expansion of the hospital buildings which took place in 1850.[4] Two inner quadrangles were divided by a cloister which was later restyled and dedicated to the hospital's members who fell in the First World War. The east side comprised the care wards and the "counting house" with the governors' Burfoot Court Room. The north-side quadrangle is dominated by a statue of Lord Nuffield (1877–1963) who was the chairman of governors for many years and also a major benefactor.[6]

In 1879-1880 the 'Guy's Hospital dispute' between matron Margaret Burt and hospital medical staff highlighted how doctors sometimes felt that their authority was being challenged by new-style matrons.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Florence Nightingale advocated that these new trained matrons had full control and discipline over their nursing staff. Margaret Burt ultimately resigned, but this was not an isolated episode and other matrons experienced similar issues, such as Eva Luckes.[12]

In 1974, the hospital added the 34-storey Guy's Tower and 29-storey Guy's House: this complex was designed by Watkins Gray.[13] The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, which is dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, was opened by the Princess Royal in December 2004.[14]

In October 2005 children's departments moved to the Evelina London Children's Hospital in the grounds next to St Thomas's close to the Palace of Westminster.[15] A new cancer centre, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and built by Laing O'Rourke at a cost of £160 million, was completed in April 2016.[16]

Facilities

Tower Wing
Status:Finished
Owner:National Health Service
Current Tenants:Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Location:Southwark
Architect:Watkins Gray
Start Date:1968
Completion Date:1974

Medical services at the Guy's site are now concentrated in the buildings to the east of Great Maze Pond: these buildings, which are connected, are known as Tower Wing, Bermondsey Wing, Southwark Wing and Borough Wing.[17] The Cancer Centre is in a separate building just to the south.[17] To the west of the Great Maze Pond is Guy's Campus which forms part of King's College London.[17]

At high,[18] Guy's Tower (now called the Tower Wing) regained its tallest hospital building in the world status in 2014.[19] It has since been surpassed by the Outpatient Center at the Houston Methodist Hospital, in Houston, USA at .[20]

Notable people who worked or studied at Guy's

Arms

Notes:Granted 24 May 1725 to the Corporation for the Management and Disposition of the Charities of Thomas Guy of London.[23]
Escutcheon:Sable on a chevron Or between three leopards' heads Argent each crowned with an Eastern crown of the second as many fleurs-de-lis Azure.
Crest:On a wreath of the colours a woman sitting accompanied with three children Proper habited Azure being the emblem of Charity.
Supporters:On either side an angel Proper habited Argent the hair and wings Or each holding a book Proper the clasps Gold.
Motto:Dare Quam Accipere (Give rather than receive)

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: Vital Statistics . 4 November 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070925021726/http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/about/vitalstatistics.aspx . 25 September 2007 .
  2. Web site: Tallest Health Building. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022040415/http://www.emporis.com/statistics/tallest-health. dead. 22 October 2012. Emporis. 2 June 2019.
  3. Solkin. David H.. 1996-09-01. Samaritan or Scrooge? The Contested Image of Thomas Guy in Eighteenth-Century England. The Art Bulletin. 78. 3. 467–484. 10.1080/00043079.1996.10786698. 227272839. 0004-3079. 21 January 2021. 18 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210718154205/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043079.1996.10786698. live.
  4. Web site: 'Guy's Hospital', in Survey of London: Volume 22, Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark), ed. Howard Roberts and Walter H Godfrey. London. 1950. 36–42. British History Online. 18 April 2018. 5 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201205124637/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22/pp36-42. live.
  5. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.128
  6. Web site: Viscount Nuffield. London Remembers. 18 April 2018. 19 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180419120619/http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/viscount-nuffield-statue. live.
  7. Book: Waddington, Keir . 'The Nursing Dispute at Guy's Hospital, 1879–1880' . . 1995 . 211–230.
  8. Tesseyman, Hallett, and Brooks . 'Crisis at Guy's Hospital (1880) and the nature of nursing work' . . 2017 . 24 . 4 . 1–8 . 10.1111/nin.12203 . 28544051 . 3986745 . 8 February 2023 . 11 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230711022619/https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files/56723591/Crisis_at_Guy_s_Hospital_and_the_nature_of_nursing_work_4_.docx . live .
  9. Wildman . Stuart . 2021 . 'Were they to have petticoat government in the hospital?' The reform of nursing in nineteenth-century Lincoln . Women's History Review . 9 . 1–19.
  10. Book: Moore, Judith . A Zeal for Responsibility; the Struggle for Professional Nursing in Victorian England, 1863–1883 . . 1988 . London.
  11. Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
  12. Web site: Papers of Miss Eva C E Luckes (1854-1919). Matron of the London Hospital. National Archives. 13 December 2022. 13 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221213162422/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/506b09dd-560b-4318-98be-581dfe38ecfa. live.
  13. Web site: FindArticles.com – CBSi. findarticles.com. 31 March 2018. 19 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151019075437/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980304/ai_n14147629. live.
  14. Web site: King's Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases opens. Comment. 1 December 2004. 18 April 2018.
  15. Web site: Evelina London Children's Hospital. Structurae. 18 April 2018. 19 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180419053534/https://structurae.net/structures/evelina-childrens-hospital. live.
  16. Web site: Laing O'Rourke hands over Guy's cancer centre. Building. 21 April 2016. 18 April 2018. 19 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180419053512/https://www.building.co.uk/laing-orourke-hands-over-guys-cancer-centre/5081311.article. live.
  17. Web site: Campus maps:King's College London. King's College London. 28 June 2006. 18 April 2018. 23 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151123211245/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/campus/guys.aspx. dead.
  18. Web site: Guys Hospital, London – Building #100 . Skyscrapernews.com . 22 April 2013 . 21 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130121114125/http://skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=100 . live .
  19. Web site: Guy's Lifts Tower regains its title as world's tallest hospital building. www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk. 8 February 2018. 9 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180209063242/https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/news-and-events/2014-news/20140528-guys-tower.aspx. live.
  20. Web site: Methodist Outpatient Care Center. https://web.archive.org/web/20150321213559/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/243052/methodist-outpatient-care-center-houston-tx-usa. dead. 21 March 2015. Emporis. 18 April 2018.
  21. Web site: Hazell . Jonathan . 1994-02-23 . Obituary: Graham Fraser . 2023-09-04 . The Independent . en . 4 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230904191554/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-graham-fraser-1395843.html . live .
  22. Web site: King's College London – Portering & philosophy. www.kcl.ac.uk. 31 March 2018. 11 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141111174335/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/flashback/porteringphilosophy.aspx. live.
  23. Web site: Guy's Hospital . 5 February 2021 . Heraldry of the World . 22 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210122035258/http://heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/wiki/Guy%27s_Hospital . live .

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