Royal Free Hospital

Details
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Name :

Royal Free Hospital

Address  :

Pond Street

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

NW3 2QG

Phone  :

020 7794 0500

Fax  :

020 7830 2468

Web URL  :

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Specialization
  • Bone marrow
  • Cardiology
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • ENT
  • Gastro-enterology
  • General Medicine
  • Hematologist
  • Histopathology
  • Immunology
  • Kidney Transplantation and Expanded Dialysis Unit
  • Microbiology
  • Neuro Surgeon
  • Neurologist
  • Oncologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Otolaryngologist
  • Paediatrics
  • Pain Management
  • Pathology Lab
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Podiatry
  • Psychiatrist
  • Urology
  • Vascular Surgeon
Facilities
Description
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has around 900 beds and sees about 700000 patients a year from all over the world We employ around 5500 people and have a turnover of about pound550m

Our services include a major accident and emergency service all branches of surgery and medicine a renal service serving the whole of north London paediatrics maternity services care of elderly people an adolescent psychiatric service and one of two high security infectious diseases units in the country

We are renowned for our specialist services including liver kidney and bone marrow transplantation renal AIDSHIV infectious diseases plastic surgery immunology paediatric gastroenterology ENT surgery and audiological medicine amyloidosis and scleroderma We are a leading cancer centre with a range of specialist diagnostic and treatment services in oncology and haematology and a major neuroscience base with a network extending throughout north London and into the Home Counties There are associated internationally recognised research and training programmes

History
The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free hospital care to those who could not afford treatment The title Royal was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospitals work with cholera victims

For many years the Royal Free was the only hospital in London to offer facilities for clinical instruction to women This began a close association with the London School of Medicine for Women later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

The Royal Free moved to its present site in the mid 1970s bringing together the old Royal Free Hospital in Grays Inn Road with the Lawn Road New End and Hampstead General hospitals

In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust became one of the first trusts established under the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990

More information about our history can be found at the Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre
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