Foundation year teaching hospitals
Foundation year teaching hospitals
BartsHealth NHS Trust
Barts Health NHS Trust was created on 1 April 2012 following the approved merger of Barts and The London NHS Trust, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust.
Barts Health is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the UK with unique opportunities available at its sites:
Whipps Cross Hospital provides 760 beds on a single site within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
The Newham General site in Plaistow has seen substantial investment over the past few years with new buildings and many environmental improvements. The site is caring for one of the youngest, fastest-growing and most diverse populations in the country.
Parts of Barts Health are undergoing the largest and most complex hospital redevelopment project in the world. The £1 billion programme will replace many of the hospitals’ ageing buildings with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to rival the best in Europe.
The Royal London Hospital, Barts Hospital, London Chest Hospital alone:
- 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 Royal London is Britain’s biggest new hospital, providing general and specialist services to the population of east London and beyond. The historic buildings of Barts, Britain’s oldest hospital, will be refurbished, alongside a major new building, to create a Cancer and Cardiac Centre of Excellence.
Barts Health has eight Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs) which include hundreds of clinicians from each of the hospitals.The CAGs listed below include 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;
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Barts Health 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 as well as providing postgraduate training. There is an extremely close working relationship 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.
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Homerton is an innovative and friendly foundation hospital based in the East London Borough of Hackney. It provides general hospital services to Hackney and the City of London, and specialist care in obstetrics and neonatology, fetal medicine, fertility, keyhole surgery, bariatric surgery and neuro-rehabilitation across east London and beyond.