King's Health Partners is an

academic health science centre An academic medical centre (AMC), variously also known as academic health science centre, academic health science system, or academic health science partnership, is an educational and healthcare institute formed by the grouping of a health profes ...

located in London, United Kingdom. It comprises

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and

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. King's Health Partners' member organisations have a combined annual turnover of around £3.7 billion, treat over 4.8 million patients each year, employ approximately 40,000 staff and teach nearly 30,000 students. It forms one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.

History

The four partners announced their intention to form an academic health science centre in April 2008. On 9 March 2009 the UK Department of Health announced that King's Health Partners would be one of six academic health science centres established in England.

Research

King's Health Partners incorporates some Medical Research Council centres, including the following: * MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma * MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology * MRC Centre for Neurodegenerative Research * MRC Centre for Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry * MRC Centre for Transplantation * MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health (awarded in 2009 in collaboration with

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) * MRC

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(MRC NIMR) including the MRC Biomedical NMR Centre (planned to move to the new Francis Crick Institute in 2015, a partnership between the MRC,

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, Imperial College London,

, the

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and University College London). King's Health Partners' research is focused on the following key programme areas: *

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*Cancer *

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* Dental *

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and

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and

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Hospitals

Teaching

King's College London GKT School of Medical Education provides core medical education at three King's Health Partners - Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. King's Health Partners also collaborate with training and provide link education for other allied health professionals from other institutions.

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