A maternity hospital specializes in caring for women during pregnancy and childbirth . It also provides care for newborn infants , and may act as a centre for clinical training in midwifery and obstetrics . Formerly known as lying-in hospitals, most of them, like cottage hospitals , have been absorbed into larger general hospitals , where they operate as the maternity department.
18-641: The Princess Royal Maternity Hospital is a maternity hospital in Glasgow , Scotland. It was founded as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary in 1834 in Greyfriars Wynd, just off the city's High Street . It moved to St Andrew's Square in 1841, then to Rottenrow in 1860 and to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary site in 2001. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde . The hospital
36-670: A model for three subsequent London foundations: the British Lying-In Hospital , a 1749 establishment in Holborn ; the 1750 City of London Lying-In Hospital , in the City ; and the General Lying-In Hospital on Westminster Bridge Road , established in 1767. A number of other such hospitals were formed in the mid-18th century. All of these were run by male physicians, women being blocked from completing training as doctors until
54-473: A range of fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), to support individuals and couples in their journey to parenthood. The center provides comprehensive care with a focus on advanced reproductive technologies, aiming to improve outcomes for patients facing infertility challenges This hospital-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University College Hospital University College Hospital ( UCH )
72-658: Is "a lying-in hospital", referring to the custom of lying-in , prolonged bedrest after childbirth, better known now as postpartum confinement . The first noted lying-in hospital appears to be one founded by Sir Richard Manningham in Jermyn Street , London, in 1739 and which evolved into the Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital . A better documented foundation is that of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital , established in 1745 by Bartholomew Mosse , and which served as
90-728: Is a teaching hospital in the Fitzrovia area of the London Borough of Camden , England. The hospital, which was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834, is closely associated with University College London (UCL), whose main campus is situated next door. The hospital is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . The hospital is on the south side of Euston Road and its tower faces Euston Square tube station on
108-556: The Private Finance Initiative in 2000, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang and built by a joint venture of AMEC and Balfour Beatty at a cost of £422 million, opened in 2005. The sculpture Monolith and Shadow made from a large polished piece of Brazilian granite was placed outside the main entrance to the new hospital in 2005. In October 2006, the hospital was nominated and made the Building Design shortlist for
126-522: The 1870s. The first maternity hospital founded and run by a woman was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 's New Hospital for Women , which evolved from an existing dispensary in the 1770s, and was renamed in 1918 the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Its work continues in the modern Elizabeth Garrett Anderson maternity wing of University College Hospital , part of UCLH NHS Foundation Trust. The Portland Hospital in central London
144-515: The Rottenrow site in 1881. A West End branch opened in St. Vincent Street in 1888, the same year that Murdoch Cameron performed the world's first modern Caesarean section . An extension was added in 1908 and the title "Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital" was granted in 1914. A clinical laboratory opened in 1926 and a nurses' home was opened in 1928. The West End branch closed in 1941 after it
162-520: The east side. Warren Street tube station lies immediately west and the major Euston terminus station is beyond 200 metres east, just beyond Euston Square Gardens . In 1826, the London University began emphasising the importance of having medical schools attached to hospitals. Before the hospital opened, only Oxford and Cambridge universities offered medical degrees, and as a consequence relatively few doctors actually had degrees. The hospital
180-461: The hospital, a role Queen Elizabeth II had filled until her death in 2022. As of 2015 the following services were provided at the hospital: The hospital has 665 in-patient beds, 12 operating theatres and houses the largest single critical care unit in the NHS . The Accident and Emergency department sees approximately 120,000 patients a year. It is a major teaching hospital and a key location for
198-783: The hospital. The hospital was run by the Camden and Islington Area Health Authority from 1974. In 1994, UCH became part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust . The hospital site at the Cruciform Building was closed in 1995, despite strikes and an occupation in 1993. The building was purchased by UCL, for use as the home for the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and the teaching facility for UCL bioscience and medical students UCL Medical School . A new 75,822 m hospital, procured under
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#1732873663057216-614: The inaugural Carbuncle Cup , awarded to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months", which was ultimately awarded to Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth. Facilities management services are provided by Interserve . In November 2008, the £70 million Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing was opened, allowing the hospital to offer all women's health services in one place (except some breast and gynaecology services). In 2024, King Charles III became patron of
234-571: Was acquired and demolished by the University of Strathclyde . The university re-opened the site as Rottenrow Gardens in October 2003. Maternity hospital Maternity hospitals in the United Kingdom can be traced back to a number of 18th century establishments in London and Dublin . Prior to these foundations, childbirth was a domestic occasion. The term coined for these establishments, but now archaic ,
252-542: Was conducted at the hospital by Liston on 21 December 1846. UCH was split from UCL in 1905, and a new hospital building designed by Alfred Waterhouse , known as the Cruciform Building, was opened in 1906 on Gower Street . UCH merged with the National Dental Hospital in 1914, and the Royal Ear Hospital in 1920. George Orwell married Sonia Brownell in 1949, and later died 21 January 1950, in room 65 of
270-716: Was created in 1983 as a private hospital , i.e. not part of the National Health Service . Also in 1983, the Rosie Hospital opened in Cambridge, next to Addenbrooke's Hospital . The National Maternity Hospital, Dublin is the largest mother-and-baby hospital in Ireland. In recent years, advancements in reproductive health have included the development of specialized centers like Embrio IVF Centre . Based in Pune, India, it offers
288-416: Was damaged in an air raid and a new out-patients department opened in 1955. The title "Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital" was adopted in 1960. After the old building in Rottenrow had fallen into a state of disrepair, the hospital moved to a new building on the Glasgow Royal Infirmary site in October 2001. The new facility was named the "Princess Royal Maternity Hospital". Meanwhile, the Rottenrow building
306-549: Was founded as the North London Hospital in 1834 in order to provide clinical training for the "medical classes" of the university, after a refusal by the governors of the Middlesex Hospital to allow students access to that hospital's wards. It soon became known as University College Hospital. In 1835, Robert Liston became the first professor of clinical surgery at UCH, and the first major operation under ether in Europe
324-536: Was founded in Greyfriars Wynd as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary in 1834. Lying-in is an archaic term for childbirth (referring to the month-long bedrest prescribed for postpartum confinement ). A dispensary was a place to receive medicine; see for context the Dispensary movement in Manchester . The hospital moved to St Andrew's Square in 1841 and to Rottenrow in 1860. New buildings were erected on
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