Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in Great Ormond Street in 2009
Geography
Location London, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system NHS
Affiliated university University College London
Services
Beds None[1]
Links
Website University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) is a specialist alternative medicine hospital located in London, England and a part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It is the largest public sector provider of complementary medicine in Europe.[2]

The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine offers clinical services including complementary cancer treatments, allergy services, acupuncture, homeopathy, rheumatology, weight loss management, sleep management, musculoskeletal medicine and stress management, and has access to conventional medicine.[2] It has an education department which offers full and part-time courses in complementary medicine for registered health professionals.[1] It is also home to a specialist library for complementary and alternative medicine.[1]

The hospital is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, adjacent to Great Ormond Street Hospital.[2]

History

The London Homoeopathic Hospital was established in Golden Square, Soho, in 1849.[3] Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, the first homeopathic physician in England, had been instrumental in the founding of the hospital.[4] It moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859,[3] the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school.[4] In 1948 the hospital joined the NHS as a teaching hospital and became the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital by permission of George VI.[3] In 1982 the hospital was brought under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority and in 2002 it joined University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).[3] The hospital was renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in September 2010 to better reflect its activities.[5]

Services

The following clinical services are provided:[1]

The hospital operates on an outpatients clinic basis but has access to inpatient services.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine guide" (PDF). University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "UCLH trust chronology". University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  4. 1 2  Boase, George Clement (1896). "Quin, Frederic Hervey Foster". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. hiefly through his exertions the London Homeopathic Hospital was founded in 1850[!]
  5. ↑ "Hospital drops 'homeopathy' title". The Press Association. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2010.

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