Established more than 160 years ago, King’s College Hospital is an NHS Foundation Trust and one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals. Situated in the heart of south east London, King’s College Hospital has a unique profile of strong local services and a focused portfolio of outstanding specialist services. King’s College Hospital is recognised nationally and internationally for work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, fetal medicine, cardiac, stroke and blood cancers. Beyond this the Trust has a strong reputation for innovation, both clinically and in designing new services for patients.

• King’s College Hospital is one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts
• The Trust was rated as ‘excellent’ for use of resources and ‘excellent’ for quality of services by the Healthcare Commission in 2009
• King’s College Hospital is one of the UK’s five Centres of Excellence for surgical innovation – with an award-winning day surgery centre – and is one of the UK’s two research centres for Patient Safety and Service Quality
• King’s College Hospital is home to Europe’s largest liver transplant centre, Europe’s largest blood sciences laboratory and London’s only single site Neurosciences Centre
• It provides 24/7 specialist services for victims of stroke and cardiac arrest, including dedicated neuro-imaging and cardiac catheter laboratories.
• It is one of the busiest A&E department in the UK and is one of 3 new major trauma centres in London
• One of 8 hyper acute stroke centres in London
• Around 700,000 patient contacts are provided a year
• Annual turnover is around £550 million
  

For more information, please visit www.kch.nhs.uk