The Royal Free Hospital
The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNE) providing services in audiological medicine, ENT and audiological science
Coppetts Wood Hospital for infectious diseases
Queen Mary's, providing services for elderly, frail and mentally ill people
The Hoo, for elderly people with long-term mental illness
Daleham Gardens, providing intensive therapy in mental health
A number of community-based services including child health and a community psychiatric service.
The hospital then ..
The Royal Free Hospital, founded in 1828 by William Marsden, was the first hospital in England to offer its services free to everyone. Its medical school was the first to admit women students.
The hospital opened on its present site in 1974 and was incorporated in the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust in 19921.
The hospital now ...
The Trust has around 1,200 beds, the majority on the Pond Street site, about 4,100 staff and an annual income of approximately £180 million.
Services include almost all branches of surgery and medicine, maternity
services, psychiatry, accident and emergency and an extensive range of community
services. Specialist services include neuroscience, liver, kidney and bone
marrow transplantation; cancer services; HIV and AIDS; infectious diseases;
ENT and audiological medicine, hemophilia, and pediatric gastroenterology.
It is also a leading site for the training of doctors, nurses and midwives
and a major centre for medical research