Charing Cross Hospital Medical School

Charing Cross remains a hospital on the forefront of medicine; in recent times pioneering the clinical use of CT scanning, reflective of its position as one of the most important neuroscience centres in London; and advances in oncology and chemotherapy.

Students of the medical school have benefited from this expertise, with many taking a research interest in these areas during their training.

Charing Cross Hospital was founded in 1818, as the 'West London Infirmary and Dispensary', by Dr Benjamin Golding, to meet the needs of the poor who flocked to the cities in search of work in the new factories.

Buildings on this site were expanded several times, but by the late 1950s it became clear that no further expansion would be possible in the area, and the hospital would have to move.

Whilst many staff supported the idea of moving to the northern suburbs, the Fulham site was selected and building began in the late 1960s.