Fast facts
Barts Health is made up of five hospitals; St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City, The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, Newham Hospital in Plaistow, Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone and Mile End Hospital.
Our Trust:
- Has an annual turnover of £2.2bn
- Has almost 21,000 staff in total with 60% classifying themselves as Black and Minority Ethnic
- Represents seven major religions across our workforce
- Delivers care to the 2.5 million people of east London and beyond with more than 60 languages spoken across our population
- Treats 6,200 patients every day with 1,500+ daily A&E visits
- Delivers more than 14,000 babies every year
- Sees 1.5 million patients in our outpatient clinic every year (around 30,000 a week)
St Bartholomew's Hospital
An internationally renowned teaching hospital in the City of London, close to St Paul's Cathedral which:
- Has a national centre of excellence for both cardiac and cancer care
- Is home to Barts Heart Centre, the largest unit of its kind in Europe
- Is home to Barts Cancer Centre, one of the biggest cancer units in London
- Has a state-of-the-art hospital with 10 cath labs, 10 theatres and around 2,500 staff members
- Is home to internationally-leading clinicians who perform UK and world-first treatments
- Is the oldest working hospital in the country. The hospital will turn 900 years old in 2023.
- Is rated a UK top five hospital in a 2022 survey
The Royal London Hospital
A leading, internationally renowned teaching hospital based in east London. We offer a full range of local and specialist services, which includes one of the largest children's hospitals in the UK, with one of London's busiest paediatric A&E departments.
It is:
- Home to London's Air Ambulance
- One of the capital's leading trauma and emergency care centres and hyper-acute stroke centres
- Home to The Royal London Dental Hospital, a leading specialist hospital for first-class dental and oral health care
- Rated 'requires improvement' overall by the CQC, with a number of areas rated outstanding including in critical care and dental
Mile End Hospital
Providing a number of services with chronic conditions, Mile End Hotpial is also home to the Early Diagnosis Centre (EDC) and the following services:
- East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), who provide specialist inpatient services and outpatient services.
- Royal Free Hospital Breast screening service, part of the national screening programme
- Homerton Hospital runs a several services in partnership with Barts Health including the retinal eye screening servicein partnership with Barts Health Diabetes Centre and bowel screening service.
- Sports medicine research and training facilities for our academic neighbours at Queen Mary University of London.
The site also hosts other partner services and organisations including Whizz Mobility, XX Place Health GP practice, and Tower Hamlets GP Care Group.
Whipps Cross Hospital
Opened in 1903 and offers a full provision of general inpatient, outpatient and day case services, as well as maternity, A&E and urgent care.
Between April 2022-March 2023 at Whipps Cross Hospital:
- Delivered 3,816 babies
- Cared for 139,557 A&E patients
- Conducted 358, 499 patients outpatient appointments either face to face or virtually
Newham Hospital
Based at the heart of the local community, Newham Hospital serves and cares for one of the most diverse populations in England.
The hospital celebrated 40 years in 2023.
- 159,839 A&E patients were cared for 2022-2023
- 5,248 babies were born through Newham’s wide range of maternity services between 2022-2023
- 385,343 outpatient appointments were conducted in 2022-2023
- Home to The Gateway Surgical centre / Barts Health Orthopaedic centre which was recently rated among the best in the country for high clinical standards of care and fast access for patients