Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

Name :

Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

Address  :

330 Gray~s Inn Road

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

WC1X 8DA

Phone  :

020 3456 7890

Web URL  :


Description

About Us
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

The hospitals and associated medical school conduct medical research much of which is of international status and constitute a leading site for the training of doctors nurses midwives and professions allied to medicine
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