Western Eye Hospital

Name :

Western Eye Hospital

Address  :

Marylebone Road

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

NW1 5QH

Phone  :

020 3312 6666

Web URL  :


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About us
Welcome to the about us section of our website Here you can find information about Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as an organisation including our board structure our key policies and publications and our performance

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was created on October 1 2007 by merging St Marys NHS Trust and Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and integrating with the faculty of medicine at Imperial College London Now one of the largest NHS trusts in the country we have come together with the College to establish one of the UKs first academic health science centres AHSCs

The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation The fusion of the different strands of our work and the achievements that can now be realised will lead to significant benefits for patients and greater advances in healthcare than we could have delivered apart
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