King's Health Partners

King's Health Partners
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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. 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.

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. It forms one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.

The four partners announced their intention to form an academic health science centre in April 2008. 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.

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. A strategic outline case for the merger was published in July 2012.

King's Health Partners incorporates some Medical Research Council centres, including the following:

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

King's College London GKT School of Medical Education provides core medical education at three King's Health Partners - Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. King's Health Partners also collaborate with training and provide link education for other allied health professionals from other institutions.