King's Denmark Hill campus
Print version
The current King's College Hospital is the third of this name and moved to this site from Portugal Street, north of the Strand, in 1913.
The School of Medicine
The King's College School of Medicine became independent of King's College in 1908. It added its dental school in 1923, and (re)united with King's College London in 1983.
The Weston Education Centre was opened as a purpose-built medical education centre in 1997.
The Weston Education Centre was opened as a purpose-built medical education centre in 1997.
The Institute of Psychiatry
The Institute of Psychiatry is closely linked with the Maudsley Hospital which is descended from the Royal Bethlem Hospital, now in Beckenham, Kent.
Bethlem Hospital was founded in 1247 in Bishopsgate by Simon Fitzmary as a priory dedicated to St Mary of Bethlehem. In 1403 its records show it was being used to care for people with mental illness, making it probably the oldest mental hospital in the world.
The Maudsley Hospital opened in 1923 as a London County Council hospital for the early treatment of acute mental illness. In 1948 the Maudsley's medical school was renamed the Institute of Psychiatry and became a constituent body of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation within the University of London.
In 1997 the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London merged.
Bethlem Hospital was founded in 1247 in Bishopsgate by Simon Fitzmary as a priory dedicated to St Mary of Bethlehem. In 1403 its records show it was being used to care for people with mental illness, making it probably the oldest mental hospital in the world.
The Maudsley Hospital opened in 1923 as a London County Council hospital for the early treatment of acute mental illness. In 1948 the Maudsley's medical school was renamed the Institute of Psychiatry and became a constituent body of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation within the University of London.
In 1997 the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London merged.
The James Black Foundation
Nobel Prize-winner Sir James Black, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at King's, established the James Black Foundation at Half Moon Lane in 1988 for the development of new drugs.