Partnerships
Education Directorate at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust works in partnership with a number of stakeholders:

Internal Partners

Clinical Programme Group Directors

1. Medicine: Dr Julian Redhead
2. Surgery & Cancer: Mr Justin Vale
3. Specialist Services: Dr Mark Palazzo
4. Cureculation Sciences & Renal Medicine: Professor Nick Cheshire
5. Women & Children’s: Mr Keith Edmonds
6. Clinical & Investigative Sciences: Professor Martin Wilkins
7. Interventional Public Health: Dr Josip Car

Training Programme Directors

Charing Cross Hospital
Medicine: Dr Geoff Smith
Surgery: Ms Katy Hogben

Hammersmith Hospital
Medicine: Dr Megan Griffith
Surgery: Mr Prakash Punjabi

St Mary’s Hospital
Medicine: Dr Michael Fertleman
Surgery: Mr Neil Tolley

Clinical Leads

Learning and Development
The Trust is fully committed to providing the highest quality of care to its patients and to minimise risk in all the services it provides.  To achieve this, Learning and Development are:

• Working hard to develop and source the best programmes of training and development opportunities to give  
  you the knowledge, skills and confidence for you to fulfil this goal
• Aiming to design and implement services, policies and measures that meet the diverse needs of our service,
  population and workforce, ensuring that no-one is placed at a disadvantage

For all enquiries relating to management or leadership skills, including team-building, mentoring, coaching, etc, please call 020 3313 4889 or email leadershipdev@imperial.nhs.uk

External Partners

Local services

NHS 'Inner' North West London cluster consists of:

Hammersmith and Fulham They  provide a range of community healthcare services, many of which are run in 
partnership with our hospital teams to help ensure patients get all the care they need before, during and after a visit to 
one of our hospitals. They include: stroke and trauma services; walk-in centres at Parsons Green and Charing Cross
Hospital; diabetes services; community rehabilitation services; stop smoking services; district nursing

NHS Westminster The Trust works closely with Westminster PCT on several projects: stop smoking services, early 
supportive rehabilitation, Westminster comprehensive assessment and treatment service

NHS Kensington and Chelsea 

Hammersmith and Fulham Centres for Health (Partnership for Health)
These are hospital-based ‘polyclinics’ - primary care health centres that provide urgent care services to patients as well as GP services to local residents. Hammersmith centre for health was the first hospital-based polyclinic to open in London.  The centres are commissioned by NHS Hammersmith and Fulham and operated by Partnership for Health, a consortium of the Trust and two local health organisations:

• A primary care provider - Central West London Community Services
• An unscheduled care provider - London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative

Local Involvement Networks (LINks).  Local involvement networks (LINks) are a new way to help monitor and 
shape health and social care. They will allow a local community to express what they want from local services and  
feed  these views back to those responsible for delivering the services. Each local authority that provides social 
services in England will have its own LINk.

Local Education Providers

From 1st August 2011 Core Medicine, Core Surgery and Core Psychiatry Training in North West Thames will be organised by the Trust as the Lead Provider for education in the sector and will co-ordinate core medical training, working with the local education providers listed below:

• Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals
• Charing Cross Hospital
• Chelsea and Westminster
• Ealing Hospital
• Hammersmith Hospital
• Hillingdon Hospital
• North West London Hospitals (Northwick Park / Central Middlesex)
• Royal Brompton and Harefield
• Royal Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery (Queen’s Square)
• Royal Marsden Hospital
• Royal National Orthopaedic hospital
• St Mary’s Hospital
• West Middlesex Hospital

NHS London
NHS London is the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) for the whole of the Greater London area. NHS London has overall responsibility for the performance of 31 primary care trusts (PCTs), 21 acute trusts, three mental health trusts and the London Ambulance Service. The NHS in London invests over £1bn in education and training every year. Investment is made on programmes of education to train new healthcare professionals and also to drive up clinical standards and improve clinical leadership via continuous personal and professional development (CPPD). NHS London is committed to transforming education commissioning to establish a more flexible and coherent system that aims to serve as a powerful tool in ensuring that London is able to deliver world-class healthcare.

It operates the Contract Performance Management (CPM) system for Non-Medical Education and Training – see the Contract Performance Management for Non-Medical Education and Training October 2010 handbook from NHS London

London Deanery
London Deanery is responsible for postgraduate medical and dental training in London. Their job is to improve the quality of patient care by ensuring the supply of doctors and dentists who are educated, trained and motivated to play their part in a first class modern health service.  We have very close links with the Deanery and several of the Heads of Speciality Schools are from ICHT.

NW London HIEC
The AHSC have entered into a new partnership that sees hospitals, universities, voluntary organisations and industry in north-west London come together to improve patient care. The North West London Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) aims to ensure that patients receive better treatment by promoting innovation, quality and efficiency through training and education of healthcare staff. It will do this by learning from and applying best practice across all its organisations. The partnership will also work to bring the benefits of the latest research to the widest possible patient groups, focusing initially on helping to transform care for patients with cancer and heart disease.

The North West London HIEC is hosted by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The 16 member organisations are:

• Buckinghamshire New University
• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• Central London Community Healthcare
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
• GE Healthcare Ltd
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Imperial College London
• Macmillan Cancer Support
• NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London
• North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
• The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust
• The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
• University of Hertfordshire
• West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

The North West London HIEC has a small secretariat function, and is more widely resourced by its members, using education and continual professional development as a vehicle to deliver improvements in NHS care.  

CLAHRC for North West London
CLAHRC for North West London is an alliance of academic and healthcare organisations working to develop and promote a more efficient, accelerated and sustainable uptake of clinically innovative and cost-effective research interventions into patient care.

It is hosted by Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, with Imperial College London as the lead academic partner, working in partnership with:

• Benchmark for Business
• Brent PCT
• Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity
• Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
• Ealing PCT
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
• Harrow PCT
• Hillingdon LINk (representing Northwest London)
• Hillingdon PCT
• Hounslow PCT
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Kensington and Chelsea PCT
• London Ambulance Service
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• McKinsey and Company
• NHS Direct
• NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
• NHS London
• Northwest London Hospitals NHS Trust
• pH Associates
• Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
• The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust
• West London Primary Care Research Consortium
• West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
• Westminster PCT

The Imperial College London School of Professional Development
The Imperial College London School of Professional Development (SPD) presents a diverse range of intensive short courses for professionals working in science, technology, medicine and management. These courses, given by leading authorities from within and outside the College, provide the most up-to-date developments in specific areas of interest. Course content is reviewed regularly and new courses are introduced frequently.

The SPD brings together the commercial, outward-facing skills of the Continuing Professional Development Unit with the academic, teaching and student educational skills of the Educational Development Unit.

The full list of current and new courses offered by the School and more information about registering is available on the Imperial College London School of Professional Development website.

Imperial Faculty of Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine is one of Europe’s largest medical institutions – in terms of its staff and student population and its research income.

Established in 1997, it brings together all the major West London medical schools into one world-class institution. It maintains close links with a number of NHS Trusts with whom it collaborates in teaching and research activities.

• Imperial College London Business School
• Imperial College London Education Development Unit