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St. Thomas' Hospital (London, England)

LC control no.n 50045610
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingSt. Thomas' Hospital (London, England)
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Variant(s)St. Thomas's Hospital (London, England)
Saint Thomas's Hospital (London, England)
London (England). St. Thomas's Hospital
See alsoGuy's & St. Thomas' Hospital Trust
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Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Biography/History noteSt. Thomas's Hospital was founded about 1200. It was known for a short time as the King's Hospital. It includes a group of hospitals known together as St. Thomas' Hospital, by statutory instrument. Its Board of Governors was dissolved on 31 March 1974 under the provisions of the National Health Service reorganization act of 1973 and the hospital passed into the control of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority in St. Thomas' Health District.
Beginning date1200~
Associated countryGreat Britain England
LocatedLondon (England)
Field of activityHospital care
Special noteThere appears to have been a (minor) name change, possibly in the 1950s, from "St. Thomas's Hospital" to "St. Thomas' Hospital)
Found inNightingale Training School (London, England). The Nightingale Training School ... 1960: t.p. (St. Thomas' Hospital)
Pharmacopœia of St. Thomas's Hospital. War emergency edition, 1941
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust website, viewed 1 Dec. 2016 (St Thomas' Hospital; Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH)
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust. Annual report 2002/03: back cover (St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH)
Wikipedia, viewed 1 Dec. 2016 (St Thomas' Hospital) ; 22 January 2020 (administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, together with Guy's Hospital and King's College Hospital)
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 85075404