Our hospitals

There are five hospitals in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust:
• Charing Cross Hospital
• Hammersmith Hospital
• Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital
• St Mary's Hospital
• Western Eye Hospital

You can read more about our five hospitals below. You can also watch introductory videos for each hospital on our online video library. Read about the past in the history of our hospitals section, and see some historical snapshots of Charing Cross and St Mary's hospitals in our photo archive.

Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross is a general acute hospital that provides a full range of adult clinical specialties. It houses the serious injuries centre for west London, a result of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's expertise in critical medical care. The hospital is also a key site for the teaching of medical students from Imperial College London.

The hospital includes a day-surgery unit called the Riverside wing, the world-renowned Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and the West London Neuroscience Centre. Maggie’s Cancer Centre, the first of its kind in England, opened on the Charing Cross site in 2008.

• Go to the Charing Cross Hospital section of our website

Hammersmith Hospital
Hammersmith is famous for its research achievements and has a large community of Imperial College London postgraduate medical students and researchers. It is home to the West London Renal and Transplant Centre, two large cancer treatment centres and a specialist cardiac service with a 24/7 primary angioplasty centre. The Clinical Imaging Centre, which opened in June 2007, is the largest in Europe.

The Medical Research Council’s Clinical Sciences Centre is based at the site and works in partnership with the hospital and Imperial College London.

• Go to the Hammersmith Hospital section of our website

Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital
Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea is world-renowned for its maternity and women’s and children’s services. The hospital is a tertiary referral maternity unit with a nationally renowned Centre for Fetal Care and the largest neonatal intensive care unit in the country. It has a labour ward with two fully equipped operating theatres adjacent to high-dependency care facilities.

The hospital has excellent and extensive high-risk services and, as a result, cares for many women with complicated pregnancies. The hospital also has a midwife-led birth centre for women with uncomplicated pregnancies who would like a natural childbirth experience.

Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital is home to the West London Gynaecological Cancer Centre.

• Go to the Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital section of our website

St Mary’s Hospital
St Mary’s is a general acute hospital that diagnoses and treats a range of adult and paediatric conditions. The Jefferiss wing is an internationally renowned centre of excellence for the diagnosis, treatment and care of people with sexual health problems, including sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV and AIDS.

The paediatric service includes a dedicated children’s A&E department and north-west London’s paediatric haematology service.

The hospital has pioneered the use of robotic surgery, including the UK’s first da Vinci robot for keyhole surgery.

• Go to the St Mary's Hospital section of our website

Western Eye Hospital
Western Eye is dedicated to ophthalmology. It offers the only 24-hour emergency eye care service in west London.

• Go to the Western Eye Hospital section of our website