New Hospital for Women

The New Hospital for Women developed from St Mary's Dispensary in the 1870s, a London institution founded to enable poor women to obtain medical help from qualified female practitioners - in that era a very unusual thing.

In 1866 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was appointed General Medical Attendant to St Mary's Dispensary, where she worked for over 20 years, through the change to the new name.

The New Hospital was renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918. It is now part of the University of London.