Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
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| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | NHS foundation trust |
| History | |
| Founded | 1991 |
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| Website | http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk |
| Other links | List of NHS trusts |
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust) is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom. It comprises Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, as well as clinics run by the trust at Edgware Community Hospital, Finchley Memorial Hospital and North Middlesex University Hospital. On 1 July 2014 the Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust was acquired by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, making it one of the largest Trusts in the country, employing more than 9,000 staff and providing services to about a million patients.
The Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free hospital care to the poor. The title 'Royal' was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital's treatment of cholera victims. 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 Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.
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. The former Hampstead Children's Hospital became the nursing accommodation for the hospital.
In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, comprising Royal Free Hospital and 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. In August 2008 the Trust announced its intention to form the UCL Partners academic health science centre with University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. UCL Partners was officially designated as an academic health science centres by the UK Department of Health in March 2009. In April, 2011 the Trust announced that it would be making 450 redundancies as part of a plan to reduce costs by £40 million per year.
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