Northwick Park Hospital
| Northwick Park Hospital | |
|---|---|
| London North West Healthcare NHS Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Brent, London, England |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS England |
| Hospital type | District General |
| Affiliated university | Imperial College London |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | ~500 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.lnwh.nhs.uk |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Northwick Park Hospital (NPH) is a hospital located near Harrow in northwest London, England. It is in the northwest corner of the London Borough of Brent, adjacent with the boundary of the London Borough of Harrow.
NPH is a large National Health Service (England) (NHS) district general hospital. It is part of London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and is a teaching hospital for students of Imperial College School of Medicine..
St. Mark's Hospital, a national centre of gastrointestinal medicine is based at the same site, as is the British Olympic Association's Olympic Medical Institute.
Local charity Radio Harrow is based within the hospital and has provided a patient visiting and broadcasting service since 1971.
Northwick Park is one of the few hospitals in England to have a Paternoster lift transport system. This was featured in the film The Omen. Access to the lift is controlled by smart card, for staff use only.
Designed by the British architect John Weeks (1921–2005), the hospital was commissioned by the NW Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board in the late 1960s, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1970. The design of the hospital was largely inspired by British obsolescence studies, in which a loose-jointed medical complex was created with flexibility to withstand obsolescence's unpredictable affects. With only a fixed internal street system, the architects referred to the hospital as "an indeterminate architecture" with "no final plan" – free to grow and change over time.
It featured in the opening credits of the episode "The Germans" of the comedy TV series Fawlty Towers and the 1976 horror film The Omen, and has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy Green Wing and the seventh series of ITV's Prime Suspect.
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