Leeds General Infirmary

The first hospital known as Leeds Infirmary was opened in 1771 on what is now the site of the former Yorkshire Bank in Infirmary Street off City Square, Leeds. Notably, the founding five physicians at the infirmary were all graduates of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Construction of the current hospital on its new site in Great George Street started in 1863 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott and built by the Bradford firm, J and W Beanland. Before drawing up the plans Gilbert Scott and the Infirmary's Chief Physician, Dr Charles Chadwick, visited many of the great contemporary hospitals of Europe. They were particularly impressed by hospitals based on the pavilion plan recommended by Miss Florence Nightingale, and adopted this for the new Infirmary. It featured the latest innovations, with plentiful baths and lavatories throughout, and a system of hydraulic hoists to reduce the labours of attendants and nurses. However, the very high ceilings recommended by Nightingale meant that it could not be adequately heated, and doors to bathrooms were too narrow to admit a wheelchair. The Jubilee Wing, named in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Health Service, which provides new Emergency Department services as well as housing regional cardiothoracic and neurosurgery facilities, opened in 1998. It is the main entrance and provides internal links to all other sections. ==Buildings==

Victorian buildings Though the main entrance was on Thoresby Place, the south frontage on Great George Street provided the main decorative display, with plainer more functional facades elsewhere. Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival frontage is in red brick with stone dressings, red granite pillars, slate roof with pinnacles and Venetian Gothic windows. The original plan largely follows the layout of Lariboisière Hospital (1853) in France: Some of the entrance hall is lined with Burmantofts Faience. Brotherton Wing The Brotherton Wing on Calverley Street is in Portland Stone, in keeping with the Leeds Civic Hall on the other side of the road. It was the gift of, and named after, Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton (1882–1949) and opened in 1940. It is both a major expansion in the form of a north extension to the hospital and also provides links between the various buildings, with a new major entrance off Clarendon Way. It has an L-shaped plan of seven storeys in red brick and white metal cladding and barrel vaulted roofs. There is a large curved glazed entrance. File:LGI interior 26 June 2018.jpg|Connecting the old buildings with the new File:LGI Bridge 26 June 2018 1.jpg|One of the bridging corridors between buildings File:Leeds General Infirmary (16th March 2018) 003.jpg|One of the sculptures outside the Jubilee Wing ==Famous and infamous people associated with the hospital==

These are as follows: • Lucy Duff Grant (1894–1984) OBE, RRC, principal tutor for the school of nursing and then assistant matron (1922 to 1929), later president of the Royal College of Nursing (1951 to 1953), president of the National Council of Nurses (1951 to 1957), vice president of the International Council of Nurses (1953 to 1957) and elected member of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales (1937 to 1955). • John Goligher, world renowned colorectal surgeon and professor of surgery from 1955 to 1978. • Between 20 September 2006 and 28 September 2006 the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was treated at the hospital after suffering critical injuries as a result of a jet power car crash whilst filming at the airfield at ex-RAF Elvington near York. • Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan, Pioneer in abdominal surgery. • Colin Norris, serial killer nurse who in 2002 murdered two patients at the hospital and attempted to murder another before being transferred to St James's University Hospital across the city and killing two others • Nancy Roper, founder of the used widely Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing, became a state registered nurse at the hospital in 1943. • Sydney Clayton Fryers, was House Governor and Secretary, awarded a CBE for his work at the hospital in 1948. He represented the British Hospitals Association and Employers on the Nurses Salaries Committee chaired by Lord Rushcliffe which published two reports in 1943 • Jimmy Savile, serial sex offender and BBC personality who was a volunteer porter at the hospital, who sexually abused individuals there, as well as performing sex acts on dead bodies in the hospital mortuary. • Former Countdown host Richard Whiteley OBE was treated at the hospital and died on 26 June 2005 following heart problems two days after an unsuccessful operation for endocarditis. == Services ==

The LGI is the designated major trauma centre for adults and children in West Yorkshire and one of the busiest in the UK, being rated in the top three in the country for providing the highest quality specialist care for patients with complex and often life-threatening multiple injuries. Cardiac services are also located in the Jubilee wing and include some of the largest services in the country for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). The LGI has a large and busy Emergency Department for adults, and next to it is a separate dedicated facility for children up of the age of 16, adjacent to the facilities of the Leeds Children's Hospital. The department was featured in the first ever live broadcast from an A&E department as part of prime time ITV documentary, A&E Live. Hosted by Davina McCall, the programme was broadcast live from the LGI Emergency Department for three consecutive nights in celebration of the NHS 70th birthday. The programmes gave an unprecedented insight into the workings of the hospitals and partner services in Leeds. It is the regional tertiary centre for Neurosciences, which includes services for spinal surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, neuro-rehabilitation, neurophysiology and stroke. The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was the first regional stroke centre in the UK to adopt the RapidAI advanced imaging platform across various sites in its stroke network. Professor Simon Kay and his team were the first in the country to perform the first double hand transplants, thanks to pioneering expert care by the teams on the hand and plastics units at Leeds General Infirmary. In 2016, Chris King was the first person in the UK to have a double hand transplant. and in 2018 Tania Jackson became the first woman in the UK to have a double hand transplant. The pathology labs, based in the Old Medical School at LGI, process thousands of samples every day. Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the pathology services to hear about future plans following an announcement by the Department of Health of £12m additional funding to develop a single Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) across West Yorkshire and Harrogate. ==See also==