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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Royal Hospital, London
The Hospital was founded by Charles II in 1682, probably on the model of Louis XIV's Hôtel des Invalides in Paris (1670).
The entrance to the Hospital is by the London Gate, on the northeast.
To the east of the road is a museum illustrating the history of the Royal Hospital.
www.planetware.com /london/royal-hospital-gb-l-crh.htm   (368 words)

  
 Royal London Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Royal London Hospital, formerly the London Hospital, is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, London.
It amalgamated in 1995 with that of Barts, under the aegis of Queen Mary, University of London, to become Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The Royal London has a museum which is located in the crypt of a 19th century church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_London_Hospital   (635 words)

  
 PAPHE : United Kingdom - London, Royal hospital,
The London Hospital was founded as the London Infirmary in 1740 by seven men headed by a young surgeon called John Harrison.
The hospital moved several times and finally in 1757 to Whitechapel in the East End of London and was granted a Royal Charter in 1758.
The hospital is part of the Royal London Hospitals NHS Trust that was formed in 1995 bringing together St Bartholomew's, The London Chest Hospitals with the Royal London.
paphe.ap-hop-paris.fr /en/f_uni_lon_roy.html   (896 words)

  
 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | New Royal London hospital design 'a failure'
London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, is set to veto Britain's first £1bn hospital under the private finance initiative after its design was today severely criticised by the government's architecture watchdog.
The project to rebuild the Royal London hospital in east London as an 18-storey block "recreates mistakes made in the 1960s", according to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe).
On the detail of the proposed Royal London hospital it said too many rooms had no windows, that the blocks appeared "jumbled and ad hoc" and patients would be confused by the complex layout.
society.guardian.co.uk /privatefinance/story/0,,1275248,00.html   (623 words)

  
 Hospitals treating many injured
Hospitals across London are treating significant numbers of casualties after blasts in the centre of the capital.
The Royal Free Hospital said 55 people had arrived, most suffering from minor injuries but 10 were in a serious condition, while eight have been taken to Guy's and St Thomas's on the southern bank of the Thames.
Many hospitals have put their major incident plans into operation, and unconfirmed reports suggest the entire NHS has been put on standby to receive patients and support the emergency response.
www.freewebtown.com /londonnews/hospitals_treating_many_injured.htm   (539 words)

  
 Hospital Management - Barts and London Royal Hospital, London
The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and Barts in The City of London, both part of the Barts and The London NHS Trust, are each undergoing £1 billion of refurbishment and construction.
The Royal London will be Britain's biggest new hospital, providing clinically renowned general and specialist services to the population of east London and beyond.
Skanska Innisfree is the preferred bidder for the new hospitals project, which is being paid for using the private finance initiative (PFI), the Government's preferred method of funding large capital projects across the public sector.
www.hospitalmanagement.net /projects/barts   (1040 words)

  
 Royal Insight > Out and About > Royal visits following the London bomb blasts
There were also Royal visits by other members of the Royal Family to thank London transport staff, many of whom had helped evacuate members of the public or had worked through the night to assist the emergency services.
The hospital was treating 14 victims of the attack, five of whom were in the intensive care unit.
Her Royal Highness thanked accident and emergency staff and met victims of the blast who were being treated in the hospital's intensive care unit.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4313.asp   (899 words)

  
 PAPHE : United Kingdom - London, Royal hospital, Chelsea
The Royal Hospital Chelsea was founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans of the regular army who were no longer able to serve either through ill -health or length of service.
The Royal Hospital in Chelsea now accommodates some 360 male pensioners in the original buildings that have been modernised.
The hospital was designed with formal gardens including a water garden and orchard that were destroyed when the River Embankment was made in the late 19th century.
europaphe.aphp.org /en/f_uni_lon.html   (680 words)

  
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The retention of the hospital at this highly a}{\f28 c}{\f28 cessible location and subsequently the intensification of its use by 70%, are consistent with policies 3A.17, 3A.18 and 3A.19 of the London Plan.
80% of the visitors to the hospital use the Whitechapel Underground station, therefore the clarity of the route from t his station to the hospital is crucial for the success of the hospital.
www.london.gov.uk /mayor/planning_decisions/strategic_dev/2004/aug0204/royal_london_hospital_report.rtf   (6805 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal London Hospital: ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL RECORDS
Administrative/Biographical history: The London Infirmary, as it was originally called, was established in the Autumn of 1740 by a group of seven men, including John Harrison, a surgeon, Josiah Cole, an apothecary and Fotherley Baker, a lawyer.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the London Hospital was the largest voluntary, general Hospital in the United Kingdom.
The Hospital was granted a Royal title in 1990 and became known as the Royal London Hospital.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/23/3899.htm   (1299 words)

  
 CNN.com - More than 50 dead in London attacks - Jul 8, 2005
LONDON, England (CNN) -- London commuters returned to the city Friday, a day after terrorist bombs on the British transit system killed more than 50 people and wounded 700 others in the bloodiest assault on the British capital since World War II.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the attack was not related to Britain's participation in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
London, he said, is a symbol of the lifestyle terrorists despise, particularly its multicultural heritage.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/07/08/london.attacks/index.html   (1213 words)

  
 Terry Farrell | Royal London Hospital
A hospital, in particular, is a large complex organisation.
Our proposals celebrated this rich diversity of activity and purpose that is the essence of both The Royal London and Barts through our concept of the hospital as a city in microcosm with a structure of buildings and spaces which draws its inspiration from the city itself.
The approach was warmly received by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London respectively and also English Heritage and CABE.
www.terryfarrell.co.uk /projects/healing/heal_rlh.html   (258 words)

  
 Overview of available items on the history of The Royal London Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Tape recordings of memories of training and working at The London are being made by The President of The Royal London Hospital League of Nurses.
Frances Elizabeth Kewley entered the London Hospital as a Probationer in January 1911, and on completion of training she joined the Private Nursing Staff in April 1914.
Some of the cases she attended, in their homes around the south east of England in 1909, included a man of 67 with a heart condition, a woman of 34 with tonsillitis, a woman of 36 with haematemesis and a young man of 23 after circumcision.
www.rlhleagueofnurses.org.uk /Hospital_History/hospital_history.html   (972 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal London Hospital: ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE RECORDS
Administrative/Biographical history: The London Hospital Medical College was established by the efforts of William Blizard and Dr James Maddocks, who in 1783 proposed to the Hospital House Committee that a proper medical school should be established in connection with the London Hospital.
The Hospital made no financial contribution, as the Committee did not feel that medical education should be funded by hospital finances, nor would it allow the lecturers' private pupils into the wards.
The Hospital was granted a royal title in 1990 and the College became known as the Royal London Hospital Medical College.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/23/3956.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Bethlem Royal Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was a Royal hospital, but controlled by the City of London after 1557, but managed by the Governors of Bridewell.
Bethlem Royal Hospital is now part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust ('SLaM'), along with the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell.
Until the 1990s, the hospital and its grounds were in the London Borough of Croydon, but were swapped with the London Borough of Bromley for South Norwood Country Park.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital   (1309 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | London | Private cash for London hospitals
The overhaul of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London is understood to be one of the biggest NHS funding deals in recent years.
The Royal London will be the UK's biggest new hospital and Barts will get a state-of-the-art Cancer and Cardiac Centre of Excellence.
The new hospital at The Royal London will feature two glass towers, one with a helipad for London's Helicopter Emergency Medical Seervice (HEMS), which is based there.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/3306491.stm   (456 words)

  
 London's Air Ambulance - Emergency Intensive Medical Care   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service for London and the M25 area, providing pre-hospital trauma care to over 17.5% of the UK population.
Despite their generosity, inflation and increased demand for our service means that an additional £500,000 per annum is needed to keep the helicopter flying during daylight hours and to enable the service to cary on it's work out of hours in rapid response cars.
We take the hospital to the patient and a doctor can carry out many life saving procedures that a paramedic is not trained to do.
www.hems-london.org.uk   (606 words)

  
 UCLH Internet - Our hospitals - Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, the leading centre for complementary medicine in the NHS, joined UCLH in April 2002.
The new hospital provides state-of-the-art treatment and research facilities in homoeopathic and complementary therapies as well as access to a wide range of conventional expertise in the rest of UCL Hospitals.
UCL Hospitals is an NHS Foundation Trust incorporating the University College Hospital, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital, Eastman Dental Hospital, The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital and The Heart Hospital.
www.uclh.nhs.uk /Our+hospitals/Royal+London+Homoeopathic+Hospital.htm   (408 words)

  
 Royal London PFI goes back to drawing board HD - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The trust has issued a statement which strongly suggests that it is looking at a complete redesign to mitigate the problems: "Barts and the London Trust and Skanska/lnnisfree are working closely with the Greater London Authority and the Borough of Tower Hamlets re the proposed design for the Royal London Hospital.
A&E consultant at the Royal London Alistair Wilson told HD that he believed clinicians were not behind the planning of the scheme currently proposed: "If they'd listened to a few clinicians they might have done it differently.
They seem to have reinvented the 1960s hospital." He also said that the PFI scheme was being carried out with a "rigidity" that was making it difficult for clinicians such as himself to have a voice.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4028/is_200409/ai_n9411713   (717 words)

  
 The Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service ...
The Royal Arms may be reproduced only where they are an integral part of the original document.
(2) The East London and The City Health Authority shall discharge the liabilities of the trust, incurred between the establishment date and the operational date, that are of a description specified in paragraph (3) of this article.
This Order establishes the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si1994/Uksi_19940307_en_1.htm   (1155 words)

  
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Barts and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry is a major centre of medical and dental teaching and research in London.
Unusually the Royal London Hospital has its own helipad and deals with major trauma patients who are flown in from around the country.
Location: Royal London Hospital Rheumatology Dates available: all year Places available at any one time: 1 Course description: on this attachment you will be expected to attend at least one outpatient session per week and two consultant ward rounds.
www.smd-edu.qmul.ac.uk /student_info/electiveappform2.doc   (2804 words)

  
 Royal Free Hospital - NHS Trust
The UK face transplantation team has been given permission to perform a series of full face transplant operations at the Royal Free.
A couple who lost their premature baby daughter have returned to the Royal Free to help future babies.
Patients with a potentially fatal disease are being offered the UK’s first treatment for the condition at the Royal Free.
www.royalfree.nhs.uk   (60 words)

  
 NEMA - Siemens Secures £300 Million Deal to Supply Medical Technology in New Barts and Royal London Hospitals
Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply the latest medical technology to Barts Hospital and The Royal London Hospital for 35 years.
Clinical services at The Royal London, including London’s leading trauma center, the capital’s second biggest children’s hospital and one of Europe’s largest renal units, will be brought together in a new landmark 18-story building.
Construction of the new hospitals will begin in the coming weeks; the new facilities are expected to become fully operational in 2016.
www.nema.org /media/ind/20060516a.cfm   (345 words)

  
 The Royal London Hospital Site Summary Information
Buses The following buses stop outside or close to the hospital on Whitechapel Road: numbers 25, 106, 205, 253 and 254 as well as night buses N25, N106 and N253.
Tube Whitechapel underground station is the nearest: it is opposite the hospital main entrance on Whitechapel Road.
Visiting hours vary throughout the hospital, but all wards are open to visitors between 4pm-8pm.
www.nhs.uk /England/Hospitals/showHospital.aspx?id=RNJ12   (491 words)

  
 Barts and The London NHS Trust : The Royal London Hospital
It is served by the Hammersmith and City line, District line and the East London line.
Transport for London offers an on-line Journey Planner: this allows you to plan your journey to and from The Royal London Hospital.
Information for patients and visitors travelling to and from The Royal London Hospital is available in a leaflet from Transport for London.
bartsandthelondon.org.uk /aboutus/the_royal_london_hospital_aboutus.asp   (406 words)

  
 Welcome to Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
Barts and The London is a very special place with centuries of tradition, and an equally long record of service and research.
We train doctors and dentists as 'scientists with a social conscience', who will be able to play their full part in service and research in the twenty-first century within our increasingly complex society.
Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Turner Street, London E1 2AD, U.K.
www.mds.qmw.ac.uk   (108 words)

  
 Royal London Hospital Museum and Archives, London E1: tourist information from TourUK
Housed in the former crypt of a fine 19th century church, which is now a medical library, this small museum charts the development and role of the Royal London Hospital.
With sections on the 18th, 19th and 20th century, as well as the history of the hospital, the museum has material on surgery before antisepsis, Florence Nightingale, and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. In the late 1880s this unfortunate figure was a patient, and then an exhibit, at the hospital.
There are special areas on hospital uniform, forensic medicine, including material on the famous Jack the Ripper murders and dentistry.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/royallondonhospital_museum1.htm   (201 words)

  
 East London Receives World Class New Private Hospital Facility
One floor at Barts and two floors at the Royal London will not be fitted out until it is determined whether population increases in East London indicate that it is an essential service.
Then she made the decision only when she was absolutely certain that facilities for this part of London are needed.
Paul White, the chief executive of Barts and The London NHS Trust, welcomed the announcement as it is good news for the people of East London and the 8,000 staff.
www.medindia.net /news/view_news_main.asp?x=8392   (507 words)

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