Radcliffe Infirmary

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Radcliffe Infirmary
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
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Geography
Location Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°45′37″N1°15′43″W / 51.76028°N 1.26194°W / 51.76028; -1.26194 Coordinates: 51°45′37″N1°15′43″W / 51.76028°N 1.26194°W / 51.76028; -1.26194
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type General
Affiliated university University of Oxford
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Beds275
History
Opened1770
Closed2007
Links
Website oxfordradcliffe.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central north Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street.

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History

The initial proposals to build a hospital in Oxford were put forward at a meeting of the Radcliffe Trustees, who were administering John Radcliffe's estate valued at £4,000, in 1758. The facility was constructed on land given by Thomas Rowney, one of the two members of parliament for Oxford. The foundation stone was laid on 27 August 1761 and the new facility was officially opened on 18 October 1770. [1]

A fountain of the Greek god Triton was placed in front of the main infirmary building in 1858 [2] and the Oxford Eye Hospital was established on the site in 1886. [3]

During the First World War, part of the hospital was converted for military use as one of the many sections of the Third Southern General Hospital. [4]

In 1936 the Radcliffe Infirmary treated four members of the British Union of Fascists following the Battle of Carfax. [5]

A number of pioneering moments in medical history occurred at the hospital. Penicillin was first tested on patients on 27 January 1941 [6] and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology was founded on the site in 1942. [3]

The entrance of the hospital was seen in the ITV television series Inspector Morse in 1991. [7] The first Utah Array (later known as the BrainGate) implantation in a human (Kevin Warwick) took place on 14 March 2002. [8]

After services had been transferred to purpose-built buildings at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in nearby Headington, the infirmary closed for medical use in 2007. [9] Following refurbishment, the infirmary building was re-opened in October 2012 for use by the Faculty of Philosophy and both the Philosophy and Theology libraries of the University of Oxford. [2] The site, which is now known as the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, also became home to the Blavatnik School of Government in 2012. [2]

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