King's College Hospital
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King's College Hospital is a major teaching hospital and major trauma centre in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in the London Borough of Lambeth, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's" or abbreviated internally to "KCH". It is managed by King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It serves an inner city population of 700,000 in the London boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, but also serves as a tertiary referral centre in certain specialties to millions of people in southern England. It is a large teaching hospital and is, with Guy's Hospital and St. Thomas' Hospital, the location of King's College London School of Medicine and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. The chief executive is Dr Clive Kay.[2] It is also the birthplace of Queen Camilla.
King's College Hospital | |
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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 9RS, England |
Organisation | |
Care system | National Health Service |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | King's College London |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes (Major Trauma Centre) |
Beds | 950[1] |
Speciality | Liver Disease, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Dentistry, Trauma (medicine) |
History | |
Opened | 1840, current site 1909 |
Links | |
Website | www |