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St James's University Hospital ''Confirming name as "St James's"'' is a
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in
Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
, West Yorkshire, England and is popularly known as Jimmy's. It is the 8th largest hospital by beds in the United Kingdom, popularised for its television coverage from 1987 to 1996. It is managed by the
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. The hospital is home to the Leeds Cancer Centre which provides specialist Oncology services to Leeds and the wider
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region. Other specialist services based at St James's include Hepatology, Pathology and the Cystic Fibrosis Unit.


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 Museum of Medicine The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a museum of the history of medicine adjacent to St James's University Hospital. It opened in March 1997 as the Thackray Medical Museum. In 1998 it won "Museum of the Year" and ...
) 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
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, 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
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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. Since 2010, all Children's Services have been consolidated at the
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across the city, also managed by the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS hospital trust in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The Trust was formed in April 1998 after the merger of two previous smaller NHS trusts to form one citywide organisation. The former trusts were Unite ...
. As part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals ''Hospitals of the Future'' program, the Centre for Laboratory Medicine (CfLM)] opened in September 2023 at the hospital. It provides specialist pathology services for hospitals within the
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(WYAAT).


2002 serial killer incident

In 2002,
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nurse
Colin Norris Colin Campbell Norris (born 12 February 1976) is a British serial killer who was convicted of the murder of four elderly patients and the attempted murders of two others in two hospitals in Leeds, England, in 2002. A police investigation showed ...
, 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 of
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. Norris's case was sent to the
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in 2021 and he may now be released.


2023 attempted bombing

On 20 January 2023, a student nurse by the name of Mohammad Farooq, aged 27, was arrested after leaving an explosive device outside the maternity ward of the hospital. At the time of arrest, he was caught in possession of a Gediz 9mm PAK semi-automatic pistol. Prosecutors added that he was inspired by radical Islam, and that he carried out "hostile reconnaissance" of an RAF base on 10 and 18 January after carrying out online research and intended on carrying out a 'lone wolf' attack. He was charged with engaging in conduct with the intention of committing acts of terrorism between 12 July 2022 and 20 January 2023.


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
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: *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
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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 Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive manner that impairs the normal clearance of Sputum, mucus from the lungs, which facilitates the colonization and infection of the lungs by bacteria, notably ''Staphy ...
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
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adjoins the hospital site and is located in the Grade II listed 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 ITV.


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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* Listed buildings in Leeds (Gipton and Harehills Ward)


References


External links


Hospital website
* * * * (paper by Deviser/Producer/Director of TV series) {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint James's University Hospital, Leeds Hospital buildings completed in 1925 Hospitals in Leeds NHS hospitals in England Teaching hospitals in England University of Leeds Harehills Poor law infirmaries