University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, named The Heart Hospital until refurbished and renamed in 2015, was a specialist

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hospital located in London, United Kingdom until 2015. It is part of the

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and is closely associated with

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(UCL). After the 2015 refurbishment the hospital now provides

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, and

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services. Before the 2015 refurbishment the Heart Hospital conducted over 1,000 surgical heart operations each year, had 95 in-patient beds, and was one of the largest cardiac centres in the UK. It treated around 1,700 new outpatients, 5,500 follow-up outpatients and 1,200 inpatients each year. It was a centre for cardiac research, home to the UCL Centre for Cardiology in the Young, and part of the

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and the UCL Partners

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History

The National Heart Hospital was founded in 1857 in Margaret Street by Dr Eldridge Spratt. The hospital was relocated to Newman Street off

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around 1869 and then to

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in 1874, with various changes of name en route, including in 1872 "The National Hospital for the special treatment of Paralysis, Epilepsy, Nervousness, and the Primary Stages of Insanity and other diseases from Affectations of the Heart." In 1913 new premises were constructed in the current location on Westmoreland Street near

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. It was one of the first hospitals in the world specifically built for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, as well as for postgraduate training and research. In 1991 the hospital was closed and its services moved to the

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. In 1994 the hospital building was sold to the private Gleneagles Hospital UK, and in 1997 was re-opened as a private cardiac hospital, with new accommodation and equipment. After falling into debt as a private institution, the hospital was acquired by University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now

), thereby rejoining the NHS. The hospital was renamed The Heart Hospital and re-opened as the new home for all of the trust's cardiac services, which had previously been based in the

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. In 2015, all cardiac services moved to the Bart's Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital, following a review of cardiac servies in north and east London by

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and agreement by the boards of UCLH NHS Foundation Trust and

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to combine their specialist cardiovascular services at the one site.

Services

The hospital currently provides thoracic surgery and urology services. Cardiothoracic surgery and Cardiology services were provided at the hospital until 2015:

References

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University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

UCL Partners

UCL Medical School

UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences
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