Harefield Hospital

Details

Name :

Harefield Hospital

Address  :

Hill End Road

Town  :

Harefield

State  :

Middlesex

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

UB9 6JH

Phone  :

01895 823 737

Fax  :

01895 822 870

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Cardiothoracic Surgeon
  • Paediatrics
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 149



History

The first hospital on the site was established in the First World War for the treatment of injured Australians and New Zealanders Today the hospitals stateoftheart ANZAC Centre remembers the vital contribution made by those troops

In the 1930s Harefield became an isolation hospital for tuberculosis patients laying down the foundations of its expertise in lung conditions In the late 1940s the hospital became part of the new National Health Service and began to develop its expertise in heart conditions in addition to its established lung expertise

The groundbreaking work of Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub set the direction of the hospital throughout the last decades of the 20th century He performed Harefields first heart transplant in 1980 and carried out the worlds first combined heart and lung transplant at the hospital in 1983 Read about the transplant on the BBC website

More than 2500 transplant operations have now been carried out at Harefield and the transplant population includes more than 1200 patients needing lifelong follow up
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