UCLPartners is an academic health science centre located in London, England. It is the largest academic health science centre in the world, treats more than 1.5 million patients each year, has a combined annual turnover of around £2 billion and includes around 3,500 scientists, senior researchers and consultants.
22-403: The members of UCLPartners include Barts Health NHS Trust , Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust , Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , Queen Mary University of London , Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust , University College London (UCL), The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . In July 2007
44-551: A hospital directly. The hospital's CEO was Charles Knight , seconded from within the Barts trust. The hospital was designed with capacity to receive and discharge up to 150 patients per day, with the number of staff required at full capacity being reported as 16,000 and later as 25,000. Partially due to its low occupancy and large cost to the taxpayer, the London Nightingale Hospital, along with its counterparts across
66-520: A plaque. The first patients were admitted on 7 April. The television medical drama Holby City uses operational ventilators on set, and these were donated to the hospital. Over the course of the first wave of the COVID pandemic in the United Kingdom, the hospital treated only 54 patients. Preexisting permanent hospitals had successfully managed to increase their intensive care capacity to respond to
88-514: A shortage of staff as the new hospital was to provide overflow capacity if required. During the second wave of COVID-19, the hospital reopened for patients recovering from COVID, and patients being treated for non-COVID ailments. Following the development of the first COVID-19 vaccines, in January 2021 another part of the ExCeL centre was reconfigured to provide COVID vaccinations . In March 2021, it
110-625: Is UCLPartners Ltd, a company limited by guarantee. The governance arrangements consist of: According to the independent Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators, which assesses organisations according to the number of highly cited publications produced, UCLPartners is ranked: first in the world for research into ophthalmology ; second in the world (and first in Europe) for neuroscience ; first in Europe for clinical medicine ; and second in Europe for immunology . UCLPartners’ research priorities are divided into
132-645: The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green , which closed in 2015. In 2022 the outstanding maintenance bill was £315 million, the fifth largest in the English NHS. The trust took on formal legal responsibility for the operation of the NHS Nightingale Hospital London , a temporary hospital set up at ExCeL London to treat patients during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic . On 11 January 2021,
154-603: The London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets , Waltham Forest and Newham , and also specialist, or "tertiary", services to a wider area, including some on a national basis. It runs the largest cardiovascular centre in the United Kingdom, the second largest cancer centre in London, and leading stroke and renal units. In addition to its five hospitals, the trust also runs a number of other facilities, including two birthing centres and some dental and primary care services. As of March 2021,
176-820: The Trust opened the NHS COVID-19 Vaccination Centre, Newham at the ExCeL London site. On 26 June 2021 the vaccination operation moved to a site at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, London. The trust serves a population of over 2.6 million people, in an area characterised by significant diversity and health inequalities. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in England and accounts for 1.5% of hospital activity in England. It provides district general hospital services to
198-424: The country, saw some criticism. Critics argued that the hospitals had been poorly planned, and were little more than a PR stunt. Supporters argued that the hospitals were "insurance" against the possibility of the pandemic completely overwhelming existing hospitals. It has been claimed that one reason that the hospitals saw little use was that existing healthcare centres were reluctant to release staff to work in them,
220-651: The following 11 key programme areas: Barts Health NHS Trust Barts Health NHS Trust is an NHS trust based in London , England. Established in 2012, it runs five hospitals throughout the City of London and East London , and is one of the largest NHS trusts in England. The trust was established on 1 April 2012 following the dissolution and merger of Barts and The London NHS Trust , Newham University Hospital NHS Trust and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust . The trust runs five hospitals: It also used to run
242-647: The founder of modern nursing . On 21 and 22 March 2020, military planners and NHS England staff visited ExCeL London – an exhibition and convention centre in the Custom House area of Newham , East London – to "determine if the armed forces could support the NHS response to the outbreak". Plans to create the hospital were announced in a press briefing by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 24 March. The hospital would be run by NHS staff and volunteers, with 700 military personnel providing logistic assistance. The facility
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#1732859168247264-576: The growing demands of the pandemic, and as a result the Nightingale Hospital was surplus to requirements. On 21 April 2020, The Guardian reported that staff at the hospital had claimed that the hospital had been "obliged to reject people needing care because it cannot get enough of the nurses usually based in other hospitals to work there". This allegation was rebutted by a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson, who stated that no coronavirus patients were being refused treatment due to
286-462: The maternity services (out of 14,270 babies delivered that year) but had to cancel 35 of them, presumably because they were actually found to be entitled to NHS services free-at-the-point-of-use. In 2021 it wrote off about £25 million in NHS charges to overseas patients accumulated over the previous ten years. The Trust is served by the following hospital radio services: NHS Nightingale Hospital London The NHS Nightingale Hospital London
308-606: The second wave. It was closed in April 2021. To add extra critical care capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK , and to treat those with COVID-19 , plans were made to create further temporary hospital spaces for those in need of treatment and care. They were named "Nightingale Hospitals", after Florence Nightingale , a nurse who came to prominence during the Crimean War and is regarded as
330-524: The then Health Minister Lord Darzi recommended the establishment of a number of academic health science centres in the UK. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust (now Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), UCL and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced their intention to form UCLPartners in August 2008. In February 2009 Professor Sir Cyril Chantler
352-814: The trust holds the Requires Improvement rating from the Care Quality Commission for the quality of its services. It is rated Good for being effective, caring and well-led. It is rated Requires Improvement for being safe and responsive to people's needs. The trust has the largest private finance initiative (PFI) scheme within the NHS in England, with a capital value of £1.149 billion, and spends £116 million on its annual repayments, amounting to around 8% of its annual income. The trust issued invoices to patients thought to be ineligible for NHS treatment totaling £10.1 million in 2018–9, but only collected £1.1 million. In 2019-20 it charged 144 women who used
374-621: Was announced in October 2009. The UCLPartners academic strategy and key research priorities were agreed in November 2009. In October 2011 it was announced that Barts and The London NHS Trust and Queen Mary, University of London had agreed to join UCLPartners, making it the largest academic health science centre in the world. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust agreed to join UCLPartners in April 2012. In May 2013 UCLPartners
396-469: Was announced the hospital would permanently close the following month, along with the other Nightingale Hospitals constructed at the beginning of the pandemic. The hospital's role was to treat patients already intubated and ventilated at other London hospitals. On 30 March 2020 it was announced that legal responsibility for the hospital would be passed to Barts Health NHS Trust , an existing NHS trust, as NHS England does not have legal powers to manage
418-511: Was appointed as the first Chair of UCLPartners and it was officially designated as one of the UK's first academic health science centres by the UK Department of Health in March 2009. Key strategic appointments were made in summer 2009, including Professor David Fish as Managing Director and seven Programme Directors. An alliance between UCL, UCLPartners, Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital
440-556: Was officially designated as one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks established by the NHS in England. In April 2014 UCLPartners established MedCity , an initiative to develop the life sciences cluster in London and the wider "golden triangle", in partnership with the Mayor of London , King's Health Partners , Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The governing body of UCLPartners
462-674: Was planned and constructed in conjunction with the British Armed Forces and British architects BDP , with the mission being run from the Headquarters Standing Joint Command in Aldershot , which coordinates resilience missions for the UK. The main contractor was CFES. The facility was formally opened on 3 April 2020 by the Prince of Wales (via video link) in a ceremony during which the hospital's Head of Nursing unveiled
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#1732859168247484-581: Was the first of the NHS Nightingale Hospitals , temporary hospitals set up by NHS England for the COVID-19 pandemic . It was housed in the ExCeL London convention centre in East London. The hospital was rapidly planned and constructed, being formally opened on 3 April and receiving its first patients on 7 April 2020. It served 54 patients during the first wave of the pandemic, and was used to serve non-COVID patients and provide vaccinations during
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