Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | NHS foundation trust |
| History | |
| Founded | 1991 |
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| Website | http://www.royalfree.org.uk |
| Lists | |
| Other links | List of NHS trusts |
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom. It comprises The Royal Free Hospital and clinics run by the Trust at Edgware Community Hospital, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospital, Finchley Memorial Hospital and North Middlesex Hospital.[1][2]
The Trust has an annual turnover of around £450m and employs around 4,600 staff.[1] It has a total of roughly 900 beds and treats around 700,000 patients each year.[1] In partnership with University College London (UCL), the Trust has major research activities and it forms part of the UCL Partners academic health science centre.[3] The Royal Free Hospital is also a teaching centres for the UCL Medical School.[4]
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History
The Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free hospital care to the poor.[5] The title 'Royal' was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital's treatment of cholera victims.[5] For a long period the Royal Free Hospital was the only hospital in London to offer clinical instruction to women and was closely associated with the London School of Medicine for Women, later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.[5]
The Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital was founded in 1874 by Lennox Browne, Llewellyn Thomas, Alfred Hutton, George Wallis and Ernest Turner.[6] The hospital initially opened in Manchester Street (now Argyle Street), but demand for its services was such that in 1875 it moved to its current location on Gray's Inn Road.[6] In January 1942 the hospital was amalgamated with the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat in Golden Square to form The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital.[6]
The Royal Free Hospital moved to its present site in the mid-1970s, bringing together the old Royal Free Hospital on Gray's Inn Road with the Lawn Road, New End and Hampstead General hospitals.[5] In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, comprising the The Royal Free Hospital and the The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, became one of the first NHS trusts established under the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.[5] In August 2008 the Trust announced its intention to form the UCL Partners academic health science centre with UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[3] UCL Partners was officially designated as an academic health science centres by the UK Department of Health in March 2009.[3] In April the Trust announced that it would be making 450 redundancies as part of a plan to reduce costs by £40 million per year.[7]
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust was authorised by Monitor as an NHS foundation trust on 1 April 2012,[8] subsequently changing its name to the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.[9] In the same month, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust took over management of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital from the Trust.[10]
Organisation
The Trust has a Board of Directors comprising eleven statutory members including the Chairman (currently Dominic Dodd) and Chief Executive (currently David Sloman) of the Trust.[11][12] The role of the Board is to consider the key strategic and managerial issues facing the Trust in carrying out its statutory and other functions.[12] The Chief Executive is responsible for the overall performance of the executive functions of the Trust.[12]
The Trust also has a council of governors which is responsible for working with the board of directors to produce plans for the future development of the trust; and receiving, at a public meeting, copies of the trust's annual accounts, auditor's reports and annual reports.[13] The council of governors is composed of 25 members, of whom 6 are elected members from the public constituency, 5 are elected members from the staff constituency and 7 are elected members from the patient constituency.[14]
Research
In partnership with UCL the Trust has major research activities and is a founding member of UCL Partners, the largest academic health science partnership in Europe, which in addition to the Trust comprises UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[15]
Teaching
The Royal Free Hospital is the largest single site teaching hospital in London and home to one of the three main campuses of the UCL Medical School.[4][16] The Trust is also involved in the training of nurses, midwives and other clinical and non-clinical professionals.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "About us". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&tab_id=3. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Hospital sites". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=40&tab_id=25. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b c "About Us". UCL Partners. http://www.uclpartners.com/about-us. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Royal Free Campus". UCL Medical School. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicalschool/undergraduate/about-medicalschool/campuses/royalfree. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Our history and archives centre". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=34&tab_id=19. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b c "Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital". The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1530-ct&cid=0#0. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ "Royal Free Hospital axes 450 jobs". Camden New Journal. 7th April 2011. http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2011/apr/royal-free-hospital-axes-450-jobs. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Foundation trust success". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=2&tab_id=2&news_id=966. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Royal Free hospital becomes foundation trust". Times Series. 30 March 2012. http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/9622971.Royal_Free_hospital_becomes_foundation_trust/. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Management of RNTNEH services moves to UCLH". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/News/Pages/ManagementofRNTNEHservicesmovestoUCLH.aspx. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ^ "The trust board". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=35&tab_id=20. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b c "Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Constitution". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/foundation/doc/constitution.pdf. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Trust members - council of governors". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=67&tab_id=544. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "Trust members - Meet the council of governors". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=67&tab_id=620. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "NHS hospitals to forge £2bn research link-up with university". The Guardian. 7 August 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/07/health.highereducation. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ "Research". Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. http://www.royalfree.org.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=3&sel_left_nav=55&tab_id=158. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
External links
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- UCL Partners
- UCL Medical School
- UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences
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