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{{Short description|Hospital in West Yorkshire, England}}
{{redirect|LGI}}
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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Leeds General Infirmary
| Org/Group = [[Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust]]
| Image = File:LGI Old Building 1 12 June 2015.jpg
| Caption = Old George Street Entrance
| Logo = <!-- optional -->
| Location = [[Leeds]]
| Region = West Yorkshire
| State = 
| Country = England
| HealthCare = NHS
| Type = Teaching
| Speciality = <!-- Only if especially notable -->
| Emergency = [[Major Trauma Centre]] – (Adult and Children)
| Affiliation= [[Leeds School of Medicine]]
| Beds = 1103
| Founded = 1771 (current site opened 1869)
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| Website = http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/patients-visitors/our-hospitals/leeds-general-infirmary/ 
| Wiki-Links = <!-- optional -->
| map_type = West Yorkshire
| map_caption = Shown in West Yorkshire
|}}
'''Leeds General Infirmary''', also known as the '''LGI''', is a large [[teaching hospital]] based in the centre of [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]], and is part of the [[Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust]]. Its previous name '''The General Infirmary at Leeds''' is still sometimes used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yorksandhumberdeanery.nhs.uk/radiology/training_programmes/leeds_bradford/hospitals/leeds.aspx|title=School of Radiology|date=15 February 2012|publisher=NHS Yorkshire and the Humber Postgraduate Deanery|access-date=9 October 2012|quote=Radiology in The General Infirmary at Leeds (LGI)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502145645/http://www.yorksandhumberdeanery.nhs.uk/radiology/training_programmes/leeds_bradford/hospitals/leeds.aspx|archive-date=2 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2280&page=32|title=Hospital Records Database|publisher=The National Archives|access-date=9 October 2012}} Lists the name as "The General Infirmary at Leeds" for 1943-1974 and 1983-c.1990.</ref>

The LGI is a specialist centre for a number of services, including the regional Major Trauma Centre and [[Hand transplantation|hand transplants]]. It also provides many general acute services like A&E, intensive care and high dependency units, maternity and state-of-the-art operating theatres. A helipad on the roof of the Jubilee Wing gives direct access to the hospital for the [[Yorkshire Air Ambulance]].

Two new hospitals are planned on the site.  One will be a maternity unit with capacity to deliver up to 10,500 babies a year. Completion is planned between 2026-2028. It will remove the need to transfer expectant mothers between St James’s Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.<ref>{{cite news |title=New maternity centre will be the largest in the UK |url=https://www.buildingbetterhealthcare.com/news/article_page/New_maternity_centre_will_be_the_largest_in_the_UK/201292 |access-date=25 July 2022 |publisher=Building Better Healthcare |date=2 June 2022}}</ref>

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==History==
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|City Square]], Leeds. Notably, the founding five physicians at the infirmary were all graduates of the [[University of Edinburgh Medical School]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Booth|first1=Christopher Charles|title=John Haygarth, FRS (1740-1827): A Physician of the Enlightenment, Volume 254|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=2005|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iXS07n2njQYC|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iXS07n2njQYC/page/n24 11]|quote=William Heberden edinburgh.|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref> 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&W Beanland Builders and Contractors#J and W Beanland|J and W Beanland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk/about/history/john-beanland/|title=Undercliffe Cemetery, Biography of John Beanland}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/scott/18.html|title=Leeds General Infirmary|publisher=Victorian Web|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref><ref name=Wrathmell>{{cite book |last=Wrathmell |first=Susan |date=2005 |title=Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=83–88 |isbn=0-300-10736-6 }}</ref>
[[File:Leeds General Infirmary blue plaque.jpg|thumb|left|Blue plaque on the gatepost]]
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.<ref name=Mitchell>{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first= W. R. |date=2000 |title=A History of Leeds |location=Chichester |publisher=Phillimore |pages=114–117 |isbn=1-86077-130-0}}</ref><ref name=history>{{cite web| url=http://www.leedsteachinghospitals.com/patients/aboutus/hospitals/lgi.php| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515012818/http://www.leedsteachinghospitals.com/patients/aboutus/hospitals/lgi.php| url-status=dead| archive-date=15 May 2006|title=History|publisher=Leeds General Infirmary|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Mitchell/>

Though completed in 1868, it had no patients for the first year. Instead it actually housed a temporary loan exhibition (‘National Exhibition of Works of Art’), held to recover some of the £100,000 construction costs.<ref name=Mitchell/><ref name=history/> Unfortunately, after half a million visitors, the profit came to only £5.<ref name=Mitchell/> It was officially opened on 19 May 1869 by [[Edward VII|Prince Albert]], the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII).<ref name=Mitchell/><ref name=history/>

The building was extended to designs by [[George Corson]] between 1891 and 1892.<ref name=history/> The Brotherton Wing, which now faces [[Millennium Square, Leeds|Millennium Square]] opened in 1940, the Martin and Wellcome Wings opened in the 1960s, the Worsley Building, which accommodates the [[Leeds Dental Institute]] and the [[Leeds School of Medicine]], opened in 1979.<ref name=history/> The Clarendon Wing opened in 1984, replacing the former Leeds Women's and Children's Hospital, and now houses the Leeds Children's Hospital.<ref name=YEP250>{{cite web |url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-general-infirmary-250-years-of-looking-after-city-s-patients-1-8832289 |title=Leeds General Infirmary – 250 years of looking after city's patients |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=31 October 2017 |website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk |access-date=23 June 2018 }}</ref> 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 surgery|cardiothoracic]] and [[neurosurgery]] facilities, opened in 1998. It is the main entrance and provides internal links to all other sections.<ref name=history/><ref name=YEP250/>

==Buildings==
===Victorian buildings===
[[File:LGI 24 March 2017 Old Buildings 1.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Great George Street frontage. Porch (left), East Wing (centre) and 1892 East extension (right)]]
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 architecture|Gothic Revival]] frontage is in red brick with stone dressings, red granite pillars, slate roof with [[pinnacle]]s and [[Venetian Gothic architecture|Venetian Gothic]] windows.<ref name=Wrathmell/><ref name=NHLE1256242>{{NHLE| num =1256242| desc=Leeds General Infirmary|access-date = 19 July 2018}}</ref>

The original plan largely follows the layout of [[Lariboisière Hospital]] (1853) in France:<ref name=Wrathmell/> a 'pavilion' arrangement providing cross lighting and ventilation for the wards and a [[Winter garden]] in a central glazed courtyard.<ref name=Broadhead/> The garden remains, but the glazing was removed in 1911.<ref name=Wrathmell/>

There are three wings North and South of this courtyard, the central South one being the George Street entrance,
which has a porch in [[Porte-cochère]] style. Inside it has a reception hall with a baronial fireplace leading to a glazed roof corridor with columns featuring carvings of medicinal plants by [[Farmer & Brindley|William Brindley]] and a mosaic floor. This leads to a staircase with decorative ironwork leading up to a landing with stained-glass windows. (As the site is on a slope, this is the level of the Thoresby Place entrance which is the primary floor for patients. The lower Great George Street level was used for administration and storerooms, the upper two floors for wards.) This opens onto a corridor going around the garden. In the corridor is a [[Potts of Leeds|Potts]] clock and just along the corridor is a chapel dedicated to [[Saint Luke]] which opened in 1869.<ref name=Wrathmell/><ref name=NHLE1256242/>

The three wings on the south are joined by single storey closed colonnades to make the South facade. A further, but open colonnade East and another wing is a faithful copy of the original style by [[George Corson]].<ref name=Wrathmell/>

====Interior of old building====
<gallery>
File:LGI Garden 19 July 2018 1.jpg|Central courtyard garden
File:LGI entrance hall 26 June 2018 1.jpg|Great George Street entrance hall
File:LGI Entrance corridor 19 July 2018 3.jpg|Corridor from the entrance hall
File:LGI landing 26 June 2018 2.jpg|Staircase up to the main level of the hospital
File:LGI landing 26 June 2018 1.jpg|Landing at the top of the staircase
File:LGI Potts clock 26 June 2018.jpg|Potts clock
File:LGI Chapel door 26 June 2018.jpg|The Chapel
</gallery>

====Other Victorian buildings====
On the West of Thoresby Place is the School of Medicine, an 1893 Grade II* listed building by [[William Henry Thorp]] (1852&ndash;1944) in red brick, stone dressings and slate roofs in [[Gothic Revival architecture|Perpendicular Revival]] style.<ref name=NHLE1255833>{{NHLE| num =1255833| desc=University of Leeds School of Medicine|access-date = 19 July 2018}}</ref> Some of the entrance hall is lined with [[Burmantofts Pottery#Burmantofts architectural faience|Burmantofts Faience]].<ref name=Wrathmell/>

In similar style is the 1897 Nurses' Home, also by Thorp, which is now north of the Brotherton Wing, and facing it on the entry road from Calverley Street.<ref name=Wrathmell/>
<gallery>
File:Leeds School of Medicine 26 June 2018 1.jpg|Leeds School of Medicine
File:LGI Nurses Home 24 March 2017.jpg|Nurses' Home
</gallery>

===King Edward VII Memorial Extension===
An appeal for the building of this extension was commenced in 1911. The project's general manager was F.J. Bray. Its treasurer was [[Lupton family|Charles Lupton]] who, along with his brothers - including [[Alderman]] [[Lupton family|F. M. Lupton]] and his daughter Olive and her husband [[Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge|Richard Noel Middleton]] - had promised to have made donations "up to the 15th of June, 1914". F. M. Lupton's niece, [[Lupton family|Miss Elinor G. Lupton]] (later Leeds [[Lady Mayoress]]), and his first cousin - [[Lupton family|Baroness von Schunck (née Kate Lupton)]] and her son-in-law [[Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale|Lord Airedale]] - also gave generous donations towards the extension scheme.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaberry |first1=Sir Donald |title=The General Infirmary at Leeds: The second hundred years, 1869-1965 |year=1963 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilprAAAAMAAJ&q=king+edward+memorial+extension+leeds+infirmary+opened |publisher=E. & S. Livingstone - 1966 |access-date=15 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=King Edward VII Memorial Extension Scheme - Leeds General Infirmary |url=https://archive.org/stream/b21535358/b21535358_djvu.txt |publisher=Leeds General Infirmary|date=1911 |page=23 |access-date=15 December 2018|quote= Total promised up to the 15th June, 1914.}}</ref>

===Brotherton Wing===
[[File:Brotherton Wing LGI 2106.jpg|thumb|right|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.<ref name=Wrathmell/><ref name=Broadhead>{{cite book |last=Broadhead |first=Ivan |date=1990 |title=Leeds |location=Otley |publisher=Smith Settle |page=52 |isbn=1-870071-63-8 }}</ref> It was the gift of, and named after, [[Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton]] (1882&ndash;1949) and opened in 1940.<ref name=Broadhead/> First planned in 1926, in a then modern style, it has semi-circular balconies at the South End, where it was intended that patients would rest and enjoy fresh air, which did not prove to be the case because of the rise of the motor car and other pollution.<ref name=Broadhead/>

===Clarendon Wing===
[[File:LGI Clarendon Wing 24 June 2018 2.jpg|thumb|right|Clarendon Wing]]
This 1984 building is Leeds Children's Hospital. When first opened it replaced the old woman's hospital which was located about 1/4 mile away. This was built to be self governing from the rest of the main hospital. Clarendon wing had its own kitchens, laboratories, operating theatres and loading bay. It is separate building of dark brick and grey slate with four storeys around a central courtyard. The [[Leeds Inner Ring Road]] runs in a tunnel underneath it.<ref name=Wrathmell/>

===Jubilee Wing===
[[File:LGI Jubilee Wing 12 June 2015.jpg|thumb|right|Jubilee Wing]]
The Jubilee Wing opened in 1998 at a cost of £92 million.<ref name=history/><ref name=Roberts>{{cite web |url=http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/review/listings/l0022.php |title=Guardian Angels |last=Roberts |first=Dave |date=1 November 2011 |website=www.leedsartgallery.co.uk |publisher=Leeds Art Gallery |access-date=24 July 2018 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=Wrathmell/> Outside, the practicalities of vehicle and pedestrian traffic are dealt with in Jubilee Square, landscaped in decorative brickwork by [[Tess Jaray]] with flower beds and sculptures by [[Tom Lomax]].<ref name=Roberts/> It has a helicopter landing pad for the [[Yorkshire Air Ambulance|Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/generous-donation-allows-life-saving-later-air-ambulance-landing-in-leeds-1-8851794|title=Generous donation allows life-saving later air ambulance landing in Leeds|date=10 November 2017|publisher=Yorkshire Evening Post|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref>
<gallery>
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
</gallery>

==Famous and infamous people associated with the hospital==
These are as follows:

* [[Lucy Gwendoline Duff Grant|Lucy Duff Grant]] (1894–1984) [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[Royal Red Cross|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 of the United Kingdom|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|General Nursing Council]] for England and Wales (1937 to 1955).<ref>{{Citation |last=Kershaw |first=Betty |title=Grant, Lucy Gwendoline Duff (1894–1984), nurse |date=2020-02-13 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58388 |access-date=2025-04-03 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.58388 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*[[John Goligher]], world renowned colorectal surgeon and professor of surgery from 1955 to 1978.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Goligher, John Cedric (1922 - 1998)|encyclopedia=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|date=30 October 2015|publisher=The Royal College of Surgeons of England|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E008629b.htm|access-date=13 August 2016}}</ref>
*Between 20 September 2006 and 28 September 2006 the ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|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]].<ref>{{cite news | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5365676.stm | title = TV host seriously hurt in crash | publisher=BBC | access-date=26 October 2007 | date=21 September 2006 | work=BBC News}}</ref>
*[[Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan]], Pioneer in abdominal surgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=10219&inst_id=9|title = Moynihan, Lord Berkeley: Papers and Case Books|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons|access-date=23 August 2010}}</ref>
*[[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<ref>{{cite news |title=Colin Norris, Angel of Death nurse: Timeline |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580552/Colin-Norris-Angel-of-Death-nurse-Timeline.html |access-date=10 August 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=2 March 2008}}</ref> 
*[[Nancy Roper]], founder of the used widely [[Roper–Logan–Tierney model of nursing|Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing]], became a state registered nurse at the hospital in 1943.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://n207-2013.blogspot.com|title=Roper-Logan-Tierney Theory|website=n207-2013.blogspot.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref>
*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<ref>{{Cite book |title=First Report Of Nurses Salaries Committee Salaries And Emoluments Of Female Nurses In Hospitals |publisher=HMSO |year=1943 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Second Report of Nurses Salaries Committee Salaries and Emoluments of Male Nurses, Public Health Nurses, District Nurses And State Registered Nurses In Nurseries |publisher=HMSO |year=1943}}</ref>
*[[Jimmy Savile]], who was a volunteer porter at the hospital, allegedly sexually abused individuals there, as well as performing [[Necrophilia|sex acts on dead bodies]] in the hospital mortuary.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Jimmy-Saville-performed-sex-acts-dead-bodies/story-21295030-detail/story.html|title = Jimmy Savile 'performed sex acts' on dead bodies at Leeds General Infirmary mortuary|date = 24 June 2014|access-date = 2 July 2014|website = Western Daily Press|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140630060250/http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Jimmy-Saville-performed-sex-acts-dead-bodies/story-21295030-detail/story.html|archive-date = 30 June 2014|url-status = dead}}</ref>
*Former ''[[Countdown (game show)|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4625119.stm|title=Presenter Richard Whiteley dies|date=26 June 2005|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title='˜Without the Leeds trauma centre, I wouldn't be here today'|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/without-leeds-trauma-centre-i-wouldnt-be-here-today-644356|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk|date=24 April 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Cardiac services are also located in the Jubilee wing and include some of the largest services in the country for [[Transcatheter aortic valve implantation|Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation]] (TAVI).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Halifax man undergoes life saving heart treatment during pandemic praises NHS staff|url=https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/health/halifax-man-undergoes-life-saving-heart-treatment-during-pandemic-praises-nhs-staff-2902061|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.halifaxcourier.co.uk|date=4 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A&E Live: All the action from first episode at Leeds General infirmary|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/ae-live-all-action-first-episode-leeds-general-infirmary-585287|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk|date=23 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A&E Live: Everything you need to know about Davina McCall's new show which is set at Leeds General Infirmary|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/ae-live-everything-you-need-know-about-davina-mccalls-new-show-which-set-leeds-general-infirmary-585593|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk|date=16 May 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

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. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Grandad who suffered stroke while cooking hails 'miraculous' new lifesaving treatment at Leeds hospitals|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/health/stroke-victim-alwoodley-hails-miraculous-new-lifesaving-treatment-leeds-hospitals-2908989|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk|date=10 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Professor Simon Kay and his team were the first in the country to perform the first double [[Hand transplantation|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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tran|first=Mark|date=2016-07-21|title=First person in UK to have double hand transplant says he feels 'whole again'|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/22/first-person-in-uk-to-have-double-hand-transplant-says-he-feels-whole-again|access-date=2020-07-20|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and in 2018 Tania Jackson became the first woman in the UK to have a double hand transplant.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mum of three has double hand transplant at Leeds General Infirmary after limbs 'turned black' in sudden illness|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/mum-three-has-double-hand-transplant-leeds-general-infirmary-after-limbs-turned-black-sudden-illness-566956|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshirepost.co.uk|date=5 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

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|Laboratory Information Management System]] (LIMS) across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yorkshire health trusts to introduce shared system for vital medical tests with £12m from Boris Johnson's NHS cash injection|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/yorkshire-health-trusts-introduce-shared-system-vital-medical-tests-ps12m-boris-johnsons-nhs-cash-injection-631724|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.yorkshirepost.co.uk|date=5 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of hospitals in England]]
* [[Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire]]
* [[Listed buildings in Leeds (City and Hunslet Ward - northern area)]]

==References==
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== External links ==
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