Western Eye Hospital | |
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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Marylebone Road, London, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°31′15″N0°09′49″W / 51.5208°N 0.1635°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | National Health Service |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
Speciality | Ophthalmology |
History | |
Opened | 1856 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Western Eye Hospital is an ophthalmology hospital in west London. It is managed by the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The hospital was founded by Henry Obre and John Woolcott, both surgeons at St John's Place in Lisson Grove as the St Marylebone Eye and Ear Institution in 1856. [1] It moved to a larger facilities in Marylebone Road in 1860, and an out-patients department was opened by the Marquess of Ripon in 1904. [1] After the existing facility at Marylebone Road became very dilapidated, a new purpose-built facility was built on the same site and opened in March 1930. [1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948 and was renamed the Western Eye Hospital in 1993. [1]
The former Samaritan Hospital for Women is located next door, and though largely disused is utilised to provide estates and facilities support for the adjoining Western Eye Hospital. [2]
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