The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) is a specialist

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hospital located in

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, England and a part of

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is an NHS foundation trust based in London, United Kingdom. It comprises University College Hospital, University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, the UCH Macmillan Cancer C ...

. It is the largest public sector provider of complementary medicine in Europe. It is based in the

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area of

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, adjacent to

Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...

History

The London Homoeopathic Hospital was established in

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, in 1849.

Frederic Hervey Foster Quin Frederic Hervey Foster Quin (12 February 1799 – 24 November 1878) was the first homeopathic physician in England. Early life and education Quin's place of birth has been concluded, based on recent research, to have been Ireland; although per ...

, the first homeopathic physician in England, had been instrumental in the founding of the hospital. It moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859, the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and '' materia medica'' in the medical school. The hospital joined the

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as a teaching hospital becoming the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital by permission of

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in 1948. It was brought under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority in 1982 and it joined University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now

) in 2002. The hospital was renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in September 2010 to better reflect its activities. It stopped providing NHS-funded homeopathic remedies in April 2018.

Services

The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine offers clinical services including complementary cancer treatments,

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services,

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management, sleep management,

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medicine and

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, and has access to conventional medicine. It has an education department which offers full and part-time courses in complementary medicine for registered health professionals. It is also home to a specialist library for complementary and alternative medicine.

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University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences
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Services

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