The Radcliffe Infirmary became an independent NHS Trust in 1993, and part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust in 1999. The Radcliffe Infirmary closed in late 2007, with services moving in the main to the John Radcliffe Hospital West Wing. The building now belongs to the University of Oxford.
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. History [ edit ] The initial proposals to build a hospital in Oxford were put forward at a meeting of the Radcliffe Trustees, who were administering John Radcliffe 's ...
- 1770
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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. See also: A.G. Gibson The Radcliffe Infirmary 1926 A.H.T. Robb-Smith A short history of the Radcliffe Infirmary 1970
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 ...
18 gen 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 and...
In 1919 the Radcliffe Infirmary purchased the Manor House estate in Headington. The Infirmary site was already overcrowded, and they had been asked to provide sanatorium accommodation for tuberculosis sufferers. They had applied to the Radcliffe Trustees for the use of some of the Observatory land, but without success.
The history of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter goes back a long way before John Radcliffe's Infirmary was built in 1770. Artistic recreation of what the ROQ site might have looked like nearly 4,000 years ago, looking east from roughly where the Oxford University Press building is now.