Royal Free Hospital

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Royal Free Hospital
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Sponsorship Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
place London - Hampstead
Country Great Britain
Coordinates 51 ° 33 '11 "  N , 0 ° 9' 55"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '11 "  N , 0 ° 9' 55"  W.
Chief executive
Medical Director
Chief finance officer and deputy chief executive 		David Sloman

Stephen Powis

Caroline Clarke
Employee 10,000 (2015/16)
areas of expertise Special isolation ward , teaching , research , neurology , hemophilia , infectious diseases , liver and kidney transplantation , rare cancers , plastic surgery
Annual budget £ 996.7
Affiliation University College London
Middlesex University
founding 1828, at the present location since around 1970
Website https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk
Royal Free Hospital ( en )
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The Royal Free Hospital , also known as Royal Free for short , is a large teaching hospital in London - Hampstead , It is part of the National Health Service . The “Royal Free” has around 20 other locations in North London and Hertfordshire . It received awards (2009) for the quality of its medical services and financial management . Even today it is financially better than average.

history

The Royal Free Hospital was founded in 1828 by surgeon William Marsden. His goal was to provide free welfare for the poor .

A first small pharmacy was located in Holborn at 16 Greville Street and was called The London General Institution for the Gratuitous Care of Malignant . After her work during a cholera epidemic , Queen Victoria granted the facility the privileges of a corporation under public law with a Royal Charter in 1837 . As the need for inpatient care increased, the facility was renamed the Royal Free Hospital and relocated to Gray's Inn Road around 1840.

Another building on Liverpool Road in Islington was used as an isolation ward. Marsden also founded the Free Cancer Hospital in Westminster , The Royal Marsden Hospital , in 1851 , which was renamed The Royal Marsden Hospital in 1954 .

today

In 1974 the facilities of the Royal Free in Islington and Holborn were merged and moved to the current twelve-story high-rise building on the site of the former Hampstead General Hospital and North Western Fever Hospital .

The building on Gray's Inn Road, later used as Eastman Dental Hospital

The new building also houses parts of the UCL Medical School and its associated research facilities.

equal rights

The The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , since 1998 part of the UCL Medical School , is was the first educational institution, the female in the UK doctors trained. The Royal Free Hospital was also the first teaching hospital in London to allow women to attend training.

Research successes

In the Royal Free were in the areas of internal medicine ( hepatology ), dialysis ; Kidney disease , hemophilia , hematology and transplantation made significant progress . Liver Medicine , founded by Sheila Sherlock, is recognized worldwide as one of the leading research departments of its kind. The founder, Sheila Sherlock, received numerous honors

HIV

In 1989 the Royal Free became the first UK hospital to offer HIV counseling . Margaret Johnson, a pulmonologist , built the Royal Free Center for HIV Medicine , which is a leader in treatment .

The Center for outpatient treatment , the Charleson Center was from 1992 actor Ian McKellen opens. The associated garden was opened in 2003 by Elton John .

Special isolation station,

The Royal Free Hospital has a special isolation ward for the treatment of highly infectious diseases such as Ebola . In 2014, William Pooley (an Ebola patient) was successfully treated here and in December 2014, Pauline Cafferkey (also an Ebola patient), who was diagnosed with Ebola in Glasgow , was moved here for treatment.

A patient with Crimean-Congo fever was treated here before .

Transport links

The nearest underground station is Belsize Park and the closest light rail station is West Hampstead Station .

literature

  • Neil McIntyre, How British Women Became Doctors: The Story of the Royal Free Hospital and its Medical School . Wenrowave Press, eBook 2014, ISBN 978-0993017810 .

Web links

Commons : Royal Free Hospital  - Collection of Images

Remarks

  1. ↑ Wider field of work than a surgeon
  2. ↑ Not identical to William Marsden
  3. ^ London General Agency for Free Poor Welfare
  4. ↑ Granted and conferred special status on a corporation on the advice of the Privy Council
  5. ↑ Professor Dame (born March 31, 1918; † December 30, 2001)
  6. ↑ Among others: DSc , City University of New York (1977), Yale University (1983), University of Edinburgh (1985), University of London (1989), University of Cambridge (1995),

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff AZ .
  2. ↑ a b c Annual Report .
  3. ↑ Healthcare Commission - Annual Health Check rating for 2008/09 - Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust ( en )  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 2009ratings.cqc.org.uk  
  4. ↑ Lynne A. Amidon: Special Trustees of the Royal Free Hospital (ed.): Illustrated History of the Royal Free Hospital ( en ) 1996.
  5. ↑ Dame Sheila Sherlock . Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  6. ^ A b London’s Royal Free Hospital: Why it is the UK's frontline defense against Ebola . The Daily Telegraph. December 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey transferred to London unit ( en ) BBC News. December 30, 2014.
  8. ^ Lisa O'Carroll: Treating Ebola: inside the Royal Free hospital's high-level isolation unit ( en ) The Guardian. December 30, 2014.