The award winning Magie's Cancer Centre opened on the Charing Cross site in 2008
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 new 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.