King's Health Partners

King's Health Partners
Geography
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeAcademic health science centre
History
Opened2009 (London)
Links
Websitehttp://www.kingshealthpartners.org/
ListsHospitals in the United Kingdom

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 £3.7 billion, treat over 4.8 million patients each year, employ approximately 40,000 staff and teach nearly 30,000 students.[4] It forms one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.[5]

History

The four partners announced their intention to form an academic health science centre in April 2008.[2][6] On 9 March 2009 the UK Department of Health announced that King's Health Partners would be one of six academic health science centres established in England.[7]

Research

The Guy's campus of King's College London

King's Health Partners incorporates some Medical Research Council centres,[8] including the following:

  • MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
  • MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
  • MRC Centre for Neurodegenerative Research
  • MRC Centre for Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry
  • MRC Centre for Transplantation
  • MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health (awarded in 2009[9] in collaboration with Imperial College London)
  • MRC National Institute for Medical Research (MRC NIMR) including the MRC Biomedical NMR Centre (planned to move to the new Francis Crick Institute in 2015, a partnership between the MRC, Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London, the Wellcome Trust and University College London).[10]

King's Health Partners' research is focused on the following key programme areas:[11]

Hospitals

Teaching

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.

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. Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  3. ↑ "The partners". King's Health Partners. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "Our Partnership | King's Health Partners | London".
  5. ↑ "Key Facts". King's Health Partners. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  6. ↑ "University interventions aim to help heal a 'broken' NHS". Times Higher Education. 5 June 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  7. ↑ "Top NHS and university alliances recognised by Department of Health". Government of the United Kingdom. 29 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "Medical Research Council centres". King's College London. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  9. ↑ "About King's College London : News and What's On : King's College London". Archived from the original on 8 June 2009.
  10. ↑ "Press release: £250 million commitment to UKCMRI". MRC National Institute for Medical Research. 26 March 2010. Archived from the original on 21 June 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  11. ↑ "Research". King's Health Partners. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.

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