The Lister Hospital in Chelsea is a

private hospital A private hospital is a hospital not owned by the government, including for-profits and non-profits. Funding is by patients themselves ("self-pay"), by insurers, or by foreign embassies. Private hospitals are commonly part, albeit in varying deg ...

Chelsea Bridge Road Chelsea Bridge Road is the modern eastern boundary of Chelsea, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. To the northeast is the district of Pimlico in the City of Westminster. The road runs between Chelsea Bridge on the ...

, London. It is owned by the

Hospital Corporation of America HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owns and operates 186 hospitals and approximately 2,000 sites of care, including sur ...

, the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world, and so is not part of the

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History

Opened in 1985, the hospital occupies the former premises of the

Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, informally known as the Lister Institute, was established as a research institute (the British Institute of Preventive Medicine) in 1891, with bacteriologist Marc Armand Ruffer as its first director, u ...

; both were named in honour of

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of su ...

, a British surgeon considered to be the pioneer of

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. It has 57 beds in inpatient wards on three floors and a six-bedded Critical Care Unit and specialises in orthopaedics, gynaecology, dermatology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology and plastic surgery, and also runs a fertility clinic. It generates revenue per bed of circa £1 million a year.

Services

Medical cannabis is available at the hospital in the clinic operated by Mamedica.

References

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CQC report
{{authority control 1985 establishments in England Alfred Waterhouse buildings Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster HCA Healthcare Health in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Hospitals established in 1985 Hospitals in London Private hospitals in the United Kingdom