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The London Clinic
The London Clinic is a private healthcare organisation and registered charity located at the corner of Devonshire Place and Marylebone Road in central London. According to HealthInvestor, it is one of England's largest private hospitals.
The London Clinic was established by a group of Harley Street doctors; the building was designed by Charles Henry Biddulph-Pinchard and officially opened in 1932 by the Duchess of York, who was accompanied by the Duke.
From October 1939 until July 1940 the London Clinic was closed to patients for necessary changes to meet wartime need. The walls were strengthened, upper storeys vacated and repurposed. Operating theatres were transferred from the 8th floor to the basement. Shelters were created in the basement where patients from the 3rd and 4th floors could sleep. The Second World War came close to home for the London Clinic with bombs falling in the Marylebone area and in Harley Street.
Wartime links were established between the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and The London Clinic. Eminent surgeons performed operations necessary to alter the appearance of agents who were to operate behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied Europe. High ranking military officers were also admitted and treated for various conditions. These included Archibald Sinclair Secretary of State for Air and General Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander Europe who both worked from the Clinic when they were patients. The Clinic staff were vetted for security.
The London Clinic wartime Matron was Miss Jean Decima Jacomb who was born on 11 January 1894, the tenth child out of thirteen of an affluent family. During the First World War, Jean Jacomb trained as a Registered Nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. She also went on to qualify in midwifery, gaining experience in Whitechapel. She held senior posts at St. Bartholomew's and other hospitals. She become Supervisor of St. Bartholomew's District Midwives and then Matron of The Cancer Hospital (later to be renamed The Royal Marsden Hospital). She was appointed to the London Clinic in 1938.
It fell to Jean Jacomb to oversee the process of putting the London Clinic on a wartime footing. Due to absence of records it is not known the precise extent of Jean Jacomb's clinical achievements. However she received the highest tributes from the Executive and Trustees of The London Clinic on her retirement in 1949. The weight of responsibility on a Matron during the most exacting times received acknowledgment. She was credited with establishing the highest nursing standards always displaying calm authority and maintaining an unfailing presence.
Aged 90 she was admitted to a Kensington Nursing Home and died on 13 June 1988.
The Prince of Wales opened the physiotherapy department in 1989, and Princess Margaret unveiled the MRI unit in the radiology department in 1991. Queen Elizabeth II opened a new cancer centre, built at a cost of £80 million, at the London Clinic in April 2010. In 2011, Princess Alexandra opened the new eye centre.
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The London Clinic
The London Clinic is a private healthcare organisation and registered charity located at the corner of Devonshire Place and Marylebone Road in central London. According to HealthInvestor, it is one of England's largest private hospitals.
The London Clinic was established by a group of Harley Street doctors; the building was designed by Charles Henry Biddulph-Pinchard and officially opened in 1932 by the Duchess of York, who was accompanied by the Duke.
From October 1939 until July 1940 the London Clinic was closed to patients for necessary changes to meet wartime need. The walls were strengthened, upper storeys vacated and repurposed. Operating theatres were transferred from the 8th floor to the basement. Shelters were created in the basement where patients from the 3rd and 4th floors could sleep. The Second World War came close to home for the London Clinic with bombs falling in the Marylebone area and in Harley Street.
Wartime links were established between the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and The London Clinic. Eminent surgeons performed operations necessary to alter the appearance of agents who were to operate behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied Europe. High ranking military officers were also admitted and treated for various conditions. These included Archibald Sinclair Secretary of State for Air and General Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander Europe who both worked from the Clinic when they were patients. The Clinic staff were vetted for security.
The London Clinic wartime Matron was Miss Jean Decima Jacomb who was born on 11 January 1894, the tenth child out of thirteen of an affluent family. During the First World War, Jean Jacomb trained as a Registered Nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. She also went on to qualify in midwifery, gaining experience in Whitechapel. She held senior posts at St. Bartholomew's and other hospitals. She become Supervisor of St. Bartholomew's District Midwives and then Matron of The Cancer Hospital (later to be renamed The Royal Marsden Hospital). She was appointed to the London Clinic in 1938.
It fell to Jean Jacomb to oversee the process of putting the London Clinic on a wartime footing. Due to absence of records it is not known the precise extent of Jean Jacomb's clinical achievements. However she received the highest tributes from the Executive and Trustees of The London Clinic on her retirement in 1949. The weight of responsibility on a Matron during the most exacting times received acknowledgment. She was credited with establishing the highest nursing standards always displaying calm authority and maintaining an unfailing presence.
Aged 90 she was admitted to a Kensington Nursing Home and died on 13 June 1988.
The Prince of Wales opened the physiotherapy department in 1989, and Princess Margaret unveiled the MRI unit in the radiology department in 1991. Queen Elizabeth II opened a new cancer centre, built at a cost of £80 million, at the London Clinic in April 2010. In 2011, Princess Alexandra opened the new eye centre.
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