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Barts and the London NHS Trust
Barts and The London NHS Trust (BLT) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the
UK. Its hospitals:
Admit over 84 000 patients a year
Undertake over 93 000 operations a year
Treat over 103 000 patients a year in the Accident and Emergency Department
See over 467 000 outpatients a year
Employ some 6000 staff
The Trust has seven clinical directorates with a wide range of medical, surgical and
emergency specialties, many of which are recognised as being at the leading edge of
progress. The throughput of acute medical cases is substantial.
BLT has continued to develop as a major centre of educational and clinical excellence.
Working closely with the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Trust provides high quality
teaching to all undergraduate medical and dental students during their local placements. The
Trust has over 400 trainees at different stages of training.
There is an extremely close relationship, both geographical and working, between the Trust
and the School of Medicine.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust operates across two main
sites at Queen’s and King George hospitals. The Trust serves a population of around
700,000, from a wide range of social and ethnic groups, making it one of the largest acute
hospital trusts in England.
King George Hospital was built from new in 1993. It has an A&E department, alongside
other acute services consisting of all the major specialties of large district general hospitals.
A joint cancer centre with St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and a regional neuroscience
centre at Queen’s are offered in addition to these services.
Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust
Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust is an Associated University Hospital closely
linked with St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry. It is a
major District General Hospital with 760 beds on a single site within the London Borough of
Waltham Forest.
The Trust provides hospital services to people mainly from Waltham Forest, west Redbridge,
Essex and east London, funded by service level agreements with commissioners of
services. More than three quarters of its income is derived from the local Primary Care
Trusts: Waltham Forest PCT and Redbridge PCT.
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust is an Acute Trust caring for one of the youngest,
fastest-growing and most diverse populations in the country.
As specialists in local healthcare, they are recognised nationally for their work: the teams in
Diabetes and Bilingual Health Advocacy have both won national Health and Social Care
awards; Chest Pain Clinic, headed by Evening Standard Doctor of the Year, Kula Ranjan, is
a Beacon Site; and they have been nationally recognised for their work in communications,
Patient and Public Involvement and good corporate citizenship.
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Updated: 27 May 2010