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History

The hospital was founded by Johanna Chandler as the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic at Queen Square in 1859.WEB,weblink National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Lost Hospitals of London, 27 June 2018, The hospital was completely rebuilt in the early 1880s: the East Wing was re-opened by Princess Helena in 1881 and the West Wing was re-opened by the Prince of Wales in 1885. In 1904, it adopted the name National Hospital for the Relief and Cure of the Paralysed and Epileptic.WEB,weblink The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, National Archives, 29 September 2019, The hospital served as a section of the First London General Hospital during the First World War and was renamed the National Hospital, Queen Square, for the Relief and Cure of Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy by supplementary Royal Charter in 1926.WEB, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases,weblink UCL Bloomsbury Project, 2 January 2012, The Queen Mary Wing was opened by Queen Mary in July 1938. During the Second World War the hospital was badly damaged by German bombing.The hospital merged with the Maida Vale Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System (founded by Julius Althaus as the London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis in 1866) in 1948, becoming the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases.DNBSUPP, Althaus, Julius, The current name came into use in 1990. The hospital became part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 1996.

Services

The hospital includes 244 in-patient beds, and has nine operating theatres (including two angiography theatres). The neurology wards are named John Young and David Ferrier; the neurosurgical wards are named Victor Horsley, Bernard Sunley and Lady Ann Allerton. Nuffield ward accommodates private medical and surgical inpatients. There are neurological and neurosurgical intensive care units in the hospital. The two inpatient rehabilitation units are the Albany Rehabilitation Unit and Neurorehabilitation Unit. The main outpatient department is named in memory of Basil Samuels.WEB,weblink University College London, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Brochure, 8 April 2011,

See also

• List of hospitals in England
• UCL Neuroscience
• UCL Partners

References

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External links

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• The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

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