Our organisation

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on October 1 2007 when Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and St Mary’s NHS Trust merged and integrated with Imperial College London, creating one of the UK’s first academic health science centres (AHSCs).
• Read more about our AHSC

The Trust is also one of only five generic biomedical research centres (BRCs) in the UK. We were awarded this status by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) in recognition of our excellence in translational and clinical research.

Imperial College London has a campus on all our main sites and is increasingly integrated with all our clinical specialties. The Clinical Sciences Centre of the Medical Research Council (MRC) is also based at Hammersmith Hospital, providing a strong foundation for clinical and scientific research.

To find out more about developments at the Trust, read our latest news releases or read about our recent highlights. You can read more about academic health science centres in the UK on the Our NHS, our future website, which contains information about the future of the NHS.
  
Clinical structure
The clinical services of the Trust are organised into seven clinical programme groups (CPGs), which each contain a range of specialties. Our infection prevention and control service operates Trust-wide, across all seven CPGs. The senior team have an integral relationship with the head of nursing and head of operations for each CPG, and there is a senior infection control nurse post, plus one to two infection control nurse posts, within each group.

The seven CPGs and their specialties are as follows:

• Medicine 
o A&E
o Acute medicine
o Dermatology
o Diabetes and endocrinology
o Elderly medicine
o Gastroenterology and hepatology
o HIV and genitourinary medicine
o Infectious diseases
o Respiratory medicine  

• Surgery and cancer 
o Acute surgery
o Breast surgery
o Clinical oncology
o Endocrinological and bariatric surgery
o Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery
o Medical oncology
o Urological surgery

• Specialist services  
o Anaesthesia, critical care and theatres
o Ear, nose and throat (ENT), head and neck surgery
o Maxillo-facial surgery and dentistry
o Medical and surgical ophthalmology
o Neurology and neurosurgery
o Orthopaedic surgery
o Pain medicine and palliative care
o Plastic and reconstructive surgery
o Rheumatology
o Sports medicine 

• Circulation sciences and renal medicine 
o Cardiology, cardiothoracic and thoracic surgery
o Renal medicine and transplantation
o Vascular medicine (including systemic rheumatology, lipid medicine and hypertension) and vascular surgery

• Women’s and children's
o Gynaecology
o Neonatology
o Obstetrics, reproductive and antenatal medicine
o Paediatric medicine, surgery and critical care
o Paediatric haematology and bone marrow transplant (BMT)
 
• Clinical and investigative services 
o Biochemistry
o Clinical and laboratory haematology
o Clinical trials
o Histopathology, cytology and immunology
o Imaging and interventional radiology
o Laboratory microbiology
o Medicines
o Molecular medicine and genetics
o Therapies

• Interventional public health
o Urgent care centres
o GP practices
o Integrated care pilot

Go to the Who we are section for more details on the CPG directors.

Management structure
For a visual representation of our key senior staff, download our management structure chart (875KB, PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, free download).