St. Hugh's Military Hospital (Head Injuries)

St Hugh’s Military Hospital (Head Injuries) was a military neurological hospital in Oxford, England. It was established in 1940 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and was transferred to Churchill Hospital, Headington in 1945.

The hospital was founded by neurosurgeon Sir Hugh Cairns (1896-1952) and neurologist Sir Charles Symonds (1890-1978) as a specialist head-injuries unit within the Emergency Medical Service (1938-1945), a state-run network of hospital services provided by the Ministry of Health during the Second World War. While the hospital’s primary objective was the rehabilitation of servicemen, it also became a site of pioneering neurological, surgical, and psychiatric research.