King's Health Partners

King's Health Partners
Geography
Location London, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type Academic health science centre
History
Founded 2009 (London)
Links
Website http://www.kingshealthpartners.org/

King's Health Partners is an academic health science centre located in London, United Kingdom.[1][2] It comprises King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.[3]

King's Health Partners' member organisations have a combined annual turnover of around £2 billion, treat over 1.5 million patients each year and have approximately 25,000 employees.[4] It forms one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.[4]

History

The four partners announced their intention to form an academic health science centre in April 2008.[2][5] On 9 March 2009 the UK Department of Health announced that King's Health Partners would be one of five academic health science centres established in England.[6]

In February 2012 it was announced that King's Health Partners and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts were developing a business case for a full merger of their organisations.[7][8] A strategic outline case for the merger was published in July 2012.[9][10]

Research

The Guy's campus of King's College London

King's Health Partners incorporates five Medical Research Council centres,[11] including the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, MRC Social, Genetic and Development Psychiatry Centre, and MRC Centre for Transplantation.

King's Health Partners' research is focused on the following key programme areas:[12]

Hospitals

Hospitals
Guy's Hospital 
St Thomas' Hospital 
King's College Hospital 
Maudsley Hospital 
Bethlem Royal Hospital 


References

  1. ↑ "Heart operation using MRI is world first". BBC News. 9 January 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Top hospitals link up with university to form research centre". London Evening Standard. 10 April 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  3. ↑ "The partners". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  4. 1 2 "Key Facts". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "University interventions aim to help heal a 'broken' NHS". Times Higher Education. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  6. ↑ "What is an academic health sciences centre?". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  7. ↑ "£1.9bn hospital and mental health merger a step nearer". Health Service Journal. 20 February 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  8. ↑ "King's Health Partners proposes new academic healthcare organisation". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "King’s Health Partners: hospital merger could be completed in 2014". London SE1. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Strategic Outline Case" (PDF). King's Health Partners. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  11. ↑ "Medical Research Council centres". King's College London. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  12. ↑ "Research". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 5 November 2010.

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