St Pancras Hospital

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'''St Pancras Hospital''' is part of North London NHS Foundation Trust in St Pancras area of Central London, near Camden Town. The hospital specialises in geriatric and psychiatric medicine.<ref>[http://www.specialistinfo.com/thget.php?t=t_chst&r=CAMIH4 "Consultants - St Pancras Hospital"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206013124/http://specialistinfo.com/thget.php?t=t_chst&r=CAMIH4 |date=2010-02-06 }}, Specialistinfo.com</ref>

The hospital also hosts other NHS services, including rehabilitation wards and a dialysis unit provided by Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

==History== The hospital was established as the infirmary for the St Pancras Union Workhouse in 1848.<ref name=lost>{{cite web|url=https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stpancras.html|title=St Pancras Hospital|publisher=Lost Hospitals of London|accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/london/76.html|title= St. Pancras Workhouse (now St. Pancras Hospital)|publisher=The Victorian Web|accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> The hospital is partly housed in the original 18th century workhouse buildings.<ref>[http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?StPancras/StPancras.shtml "St Pancras, Middlesex, London"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026012039/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?StPancras%2FStPancras.shtml |date=2009-10-26 }}, Workhouses.org</ref> After St Pancras North Infirmary opened in Highgate in 1869, the hospital in St Pancras Way became known as the St Pancras South Infirmary.<ref name=lost/> After the North Infirmary was renamed Highgate Hospital the South Infirmary was renamed St Pancras Hospital in 1920.<ref name=lost/> It joined the National Health Service in 1948 under the management of the University College Hospital.<ref name=lost/>

The former maternity wards were occupied by the Hospital for Tropical Diseases from 1951 until 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehtd.org/history.aspx|title=History|publisher= Hospital for Tropical Diseases|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref> After the hospital chapel became a day nursery, chaplaincy services were provided by St Pancras Old Church.<ref>{{cite book|title=Camden Town and Primrose Hill Past|first=John|last= Richardson |year=1991|publisher=Historical Publications|isbn=0-948667-12-5}}</ref> During the 1990s the hospital came under the management of the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.<ref name=lost/>

In January 1999 an independent report revealed abuse at Beach House, one of the geriatric units of the hospital, where nurses hit and tied up elderly mentally ill patients, and racially intimidated colleagues who threatened to report them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/23/sarahhall |title=Hospital's regime of abuse|work= The Guardian|first=Sarah|last= Hall|date=23 January 1999|accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>

A paedophile nurse was sacked in February 2005 and subsequently struck off.<ref>[http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED19%20Jan%202007%2015%3A29%3A05%3A503 "Nurse struck off for downloading child porn videos"], Matt Eley, Ham&High, 19 January 2007</ref> The number of mental health beds was reduced between 2007 and 2008.<ref>[http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED13%20Sep%202007%2016%3A12%3A26%3A097 "Mental health bed cuts will 'only add stress to system'"], Ham&High, 13 September 2007 {{Dead link|fix-attempted=yes|date=September 2020}}</ref>

== Future == In 2026, plans were underway to redevelop the site, and sell the majority of the land and buildings to help fund new healthcare facilities across North London. A two acre portion of the estate was sold in 2023 to construct a new state of the art eye hospital for Moorfields NHS Foundation Trust.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trust |first=North London NHS Foundation |title=St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme |url=https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/st-pancras-hospital-transformation-programme |access-date=2026-05-18 |website=North London NHS Foundation Trust |language=en}}</ref>

The remainder of the site, except for the existing South Wing, has been sold to the Kings Cross Group to be redeveloped into housing and commercial units. The South Wing will continue to be used by the Trust following refurbishment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trust |first=North London NHS Foundation |title=St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme |url=https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/st-pancras-hospital-transformation-programme |access-date=2026-05-18 |website=North London NHS Foundation Trust |language=en}}</ref>

==Exhibitions== Located in two areas adjacent to Conference Centre rooms at St Pancras Hospital, The Arts Project, aided by financial support from various changing NHS Charitable Funds, organised Art exhibitions since 2003, uniting Arts and health care.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HOME |url=https://www.theartsprojectlondon.com/ |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=theartsproject |language=en}}</ref>

==Notable patients== Notable patients have included: * Writer Robert Heron died in the hospital on 13 April 1807.<ref>{{DNB|wstitle=Heron, Robert (1764-1807)|first=Thomas Finlayson|last=Henderson|volume=26}}</ref> * Charles Sydney Gibbes, English tutor to the children of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, died in the hospital on 24 March 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dovegreyreader.typepad.com/dovegreyreader_scribbles/2018/06/the-last-hours-of-father-nicholas-gibbes-english-tutor-to-the-romanov-children-helen-rappaport.html|title=The Last Hours of Father Nicholas Gibbes, English tutor to the Romanov Children|first=Helen |last=Rappaport|author-link=Helen Rappaport|date=28 June 2018|publisher=Dove Grey Reader|accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> * Comic novelist Sir Kingsley Amis died in the hospital on 22 October 1995.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-861813.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022160120/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-861813.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2012 |title=Sir Kingsley Amis Dies; British Novelist and Poet|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=23 October 1995}}</ref> * Henry Croft, the first Pearly King was born (24 May 1861) and died (1 January 1930) in the hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pearlysociety.org.uk/henry-croft/|title=Henry Croft|publisher=Pearly Society|access-date=30 December 2025}}</ref> * Glyndwr Michael, the man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Macintyre |first1=Ben |title=Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II, Chapter 5 |year=2010 |url=https://archive.org/details/operationminceme0000maci |url-access=registration |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1408812587|page=44}}</ref>

==See also== * Healthcare in London

==References== {{Reflist|33em}}

==External links== * [http://www.nhs.uk/Services/hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=88884 NHS Choices: St Pancras Hospital]

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