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In recognition of Morris' contribution, the hospital became the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in 1930. [3] In 1936, Lord Nuffield announced a further gift to Oxford University Medical School which created five clinical chairs, and Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone became the first Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1937. [3]
The Old Road Campus is a University of Oxford site south of Old Road, in Headington, east Oxford, England. The Churchill Hospital, a teaching hospital managed by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is to the south.
A number of pioneering moments in medical history occurred at the hospital. Penicillin was first tested on patients on 27 January 1941 [6] and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology was founded on the site in 1942. [3] The entrance of the hospital was seen in the ITV television series Inspector Morse in 1991. [7]
The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford, England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division. [1] The head of department is Professor Sir Rory Collins. [2]
The trust was formed in 2011 by a merger with the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust. It achieved foundation trust status in October 2015. [4] Sir Jonathan Michael, then chief executive, announced in November 2014 that he planned to retire in 2015 – by which time it was hoped that the trust would achieve foundation trust status.
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John Radcliffe Hospital (informally known as the JR or the John Radcliffe) is a large tertiary teaching hospital in Oxford, England.It forms part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is named after John Radcliffe, an 18th-century physician and Oxford University graduate, who endowed the Radcliffe Infirmary, the main hospital for Oxford from 1770 until 2007.
The Richard Doll Building (RDB) is a University of Oxford building on the Old Road Campus, in Headington, east Oxford, England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The building is named after the physician and epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll CH OBE FRS (1912–2005).