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St James's University Hospital ''Confirming name as "St James's"'' is in
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, West Yorkshire, England and is popularly known as Jimmy's. It is one of the United Kingdom's most famous hospitals due to its coverage on television. It is managed by the
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.


History

The hospital has its origins in the Leeds Moral and Industrial Training School built in 1848 (which now forms part of the Lincoln Wing). Subsequent early developments included the Leeds Union Workhouse (which now houses the Thackray Medical Museum) built in 1858. The chapel, which is a
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, was completed in 1861 by the firm of Perkin & Beckhouse, of Leeds, and the Leeds Union Infirmary (the site of the present Gledhow Wing) was built in 1874.P. M Pennock ''Publications of the Thoresby Society'', Vol LIX part 2, no 130, pp. 124–76 "The Evolution of St James's 1848–97" By the end of the 19th century, the facilities were largely used for medical care of the poor, rather than as a workhouse. During the
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it was called the East Leeds War Hospital, caring for armed services personnel. From 1881 the Medical Superintendent of the Leeds Union Infirmary was Dr James Allan. On his retirement in 1925, the infirmary was renamed St James's Hospital, to honour him, and also Sir James Ford, of the Leeds Board of Guardians, who had overseen the conversion from workhouse to hospital. The hospital expanded following the creation of the
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in 1948 and the site was redeveloped during the 1960s. It was one of the hospitals investigated in 1967 as a result of the publication of Barbara Robb's book "Sans Everything". Accusations were made against a State Enrolled Nurse including "assaults; the deliberate act of making an elderly female patient inebriated by means of brandy which had been issued to the ward; swearing at patients; mischievously and maliciously squirting spirit onto the bodies of elderly patients in order to give them shocks". There were also allegations of neglect and inefficiency, which were subsequently determined to have been unfounded. In 1970, following expansion of Leeds School of Medicine, it was renamed St James's University Hospital. The Chancellor's Wing, which included a new Accident and Emergency Department, was opened by the then Chancellor of the
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, the Duchess of Kent, in February 1972. A new
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building, the Bexley Wing, containing the St James's Institute of Oncology (including the Gamma Knife Centre) was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2004. It was designed by
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and built by
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at a cost of £265 million and accepted its first patients in December 2007. It was officially opened by
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on 17 July 2008. The building is one of Europe's largest cancer centres, with 1,600 staff and 350 beds. In 2010, all children's emergency department were moved to
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, which meant the loss of this service at St James's. The emergency department at St James's is now just for adults.


2002 serial killer incident

In 2002,
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nurse
Colin Norris Colin Campbell Norris (born 12 February 1976) is a serial killer nurse from Milton in Glasgow, Scotland, who murdered four "difficult" elderly patients and attempted to murder another in two hospitals in Leeds, England in 2002. Norris, who se ...
, who worked on the orthopaedics ward of the hospital, killed two of his own patients in cold blood. He had been transferred to St James's from
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, where it later materialised he had already murdered two patients and attempted to kill another. He was caught after Dr Emma Ward ordered blood tests on victim Ethel Hall, who despite only having a broken hip had inexplicably fallen into a hypoglycaemic coma, with the tests revealing that she had been secretly injected with a huge amount insulin. Norris's case was sent to the Court of Appeal in 2021 and he may now be released.


Facilities

All of the hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing, which was named after the Duchess of Kent, a former Chancellor of the
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, are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills: *Beckett Wing – Care of the Elderly *Bexley Wing – Oncology *Gledhow Wing *Lincoln Wing *Chancellor's Wing The hospital is one of six centres which conduct liver transplants. St James's was the location of the first living-related donor Liver transplantation on the NHS. The
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has a large presence at the St James's Hospital site with a new molecular medicine centre, the Wellcome Trust Brenner building. There is a notable cystic fibrosis unit in the Gledhow wing which offers specialist inpatient and outpatient services and research, and has its own method of management guidelines called the "Cystic Fibrosis Leeds method of management". The Thackray Medical Museum adjoins the hospital site and is located in the Grade II
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former main building of the Leeds Union Workhouse.


''Jimmy's'' TV series

St James's University Hospital's fame derives in part from its extensive television coverage in the documentary series also titled "''Jimmy's''", produced by
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(YTV) between 1987 and 1996 for
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Main buildings

Image:Jimmys Beckett 2008.jpg, Beckett Wing Image:Jimmys Oncology 2008.jpg, Leeds Cancer Centre
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(Bexley Wing) Image:Jimmys Chancellor 2008.jpg, Chancellor's Wing Image:Jimmys Lincoln 2008.jpg, Lincoln Wing Image:Jimmys Gledhow 2008.jpg, Gledhow Wing Image:Jimmys Brenner 2008.jpg,
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Brenner Building Image:Jimmys Clinical Sciences 2008.jpg, Clinical Sciences Building


See also

*
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References


External links


Hospital website
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