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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.
- A Hospital For Oxford
- Rules For Patients
- A Pioneering Hospital
The first proposals to build a hospital for Oxford were made in 1758 at a meeting of the Radcliffe Trustees, who administered the estate of Dr John Radcliffe (1650-1714), physician to Queen Anne. The sum of £4000 was released for the new hospital, which was constructed on land given by Thomas Rowney, MP for Oxford 1722-1759. The honorary physicians...
A code of over 100 rules for patients admitted to the Radcliffe Infirmary was printed in 1770 and continued with few changes for nearly a century. They were strict, but not unusually so for the period. There was just one punishment for patients who did not keep them, and it continued in force until the twentieth century: those who offended were not...
On 27 January 1941, the first dose of penicillin was given intravenously to man at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and on 1 July that year the first accident service in Great Britain began. Pioneering work continued after the war, and to this day. The Infirmary was the first provincial hospital to have an admissions office. The Oxford Centre for Preventio...
The Radcliffe Infirmary. John Radcliffe left £4000 towards funding a hospital in Oxford, and a five-acre site in the fields of St Giles was donated by Thomas Rowney (MP for Oxford 1722–1759). The foundation stone was laid on 27 August 1761, the physicians and surgeons were elected on 13 September 1770, and the hospital opened on 18 October ...
The Radcliffe Infirmary became an independent NHS Trust in 1993 and part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust in 1999. The hospital closed in 2006 and the site is now being developed by the University of Oxford.
John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR or the John Radcliffe) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England.
Jan 18, 2007 · The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford’s first hospital opened in 1770. It had 277 beds and provided specialist healthcare services across the Thames Valley and beyond. These include neurosurgery...
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Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Woodstock Road: Radcliffe Infirmary. The foundation stone for the Radcliffe Infirmary was laid on 27 August 1761. The original architect was Stiff Leadbetter, but he died in 1766 and the work was completed by John Sanderson.
