| London Bridge Hospital | |
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| HCA International | |
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  Shown in Southwark | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Tooley Street London, SE1 United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°30′23″N0°05′09″W / 51.5064°N 0.0859°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Private |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
The London Bridge Hospital is a private hospital on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
The hospital, which was designed by Llewelyn Davies Weeks and built by Bovis Construction, opened in 1986. [1] It belongs, along with several other well-known private London hospitals, to HCA International, the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world. [2] [3]
In April 2006, it expanded its outpatients operations into the adjacent building, St Olaf House - the first art deco building in the UK. [4] Then in November 2013 it took three floors in the Shard [5] and in September 2016 it moved its fertility services to the Shard. [6]
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The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and specialist tertiary care services for patients from across London and elsewhere. The current hospital building has 845 beds and 34 wards. It opened in February 2012.
Whittington Hospital is a district general and teaching hospital of UCL Medical School and Middlesex University School of Health and Social Sciences. Located in Upper Holloway, it is managed by Whittington Health NHS Trust, operating as Whittington Health, an integrated care organisation providing hospital and community health services in the north London boroughs of Islington and Haringey. Its Jenner Building, a former smallpox hospital, is a Grade II listed building.
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