About us

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Our hospitals at the heart of east London

We are with you for every moment of your healthcare journey. From diagnosis to recovery, we will provide seamless, innovative, and equitable hospital care for all our patients - as we build a healthier future for generations to come across east London and beyond. 

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals known for leading innovation, reducing inequalities, and transforming lives by championing excellence and providing outstanding healthcare.

We're moving towards a future that focuses on preventing ill health, embraces digital innovation, and expands our care closer to home in the community. Aligned with national NHS goals, this transformation puts patients first and is shaped by the experiences, insights and voices of the people we treat.

The services we offer are driven by the unique needs of our people in one of the most diverse and fast-growing populations with some of the most deprived and under-privileged communities in the country. Every day, we provide a mix of specialist and routine care for over 7,000 people across five hospitals.

Working as a group of hospitals enables us to combine our strengths, share expertise, and deliver consistent, high-quality care for more than 2.5 million people.

Each hospital has a unique mix of specialist skills and cares for their local communities:

  • The Royal London Hospital is one of the biggest hospitals in London, combining specialist centres of excellence with routine care for people in Tower Hamlets. It is home to a major trauma centre, hyper-acute stroke services, and the London Air Ambulance. It also provides cutting-edge complex surgery, critical care, renal services and dentistry as well as having one of the UK’s largest children's hospitals.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital in the City, the oldest hospital in the country, is now a world-class centre for cardiac and cancer care, the largest heart hospital in the UK and one of London’s top cancer centres, serving patients from beyond the capital.
  • Whipps Cross Hospital is a busy local hospital serving Waltham Forest and Redbridge while developing specialist expertise in frailty and care for older people to meet local needs and become a group centre of excellence.
  • Newham Hospital is a busy local hospital and a centre of excellence for planned orthopaedic surgery, as well as having a busy emergency department and a large maternity unit.
  • Mile End Hospital is a community hospital hosting diagnostics, rehabilitation, long-term condition management and mental health services.  

We’re part of UCLPartners, Europe’s largest academic health science partnership, and work with Queen Mary University of London and others to bring the latest research and innovation into everyday clinical care through our Barts Life Sciences partnership.