The London Clinic United Kingdom
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The London Clinic, established in 1932, is one of the UK's largest private clinics. It is located in the heart of London's famous medical district, Harley Street, and its surroundings. It is an independent hospital that provides its patients with top-level medical care and guarantees comfort and privacy. The hospital was established by a group of medics from Harley Street.
The team involves specialists working in a wide variety of medical and surgical fields. The hospital employs highly skilled doctors, the best nurses, surgical consultants, physiotherapists, dieticians and resident medical officers (RMOs). All of them are working to insure the best possible care depending on the patient's needs.
The clinic's consultants are also working as professors. All specialists are registered with the UK's General Medical Council (GMC). In order to practice medicine at the clinic, they must undergo strict control procedures established by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the clinic's own selection procedures. Practising consultants are members of the Royal College of Physicians. They cooperate with numerous research institutes and labs.
More about the clinic
The clinic receives 120,000 outpatients and 25,000 inpatients annually from the Middle East, China, the UK and Europe. There are a total of 13 beds in the intensive care unit with 24/7 supervision, and 250 beds in the inpatient facility. There are 17 surgery rooms, including a one-of-a-kind hybrid vascular surgery room, 2 angiography rooms, 5 endoscopic rooms, and 75 consultative offices. There are also 22 chemotherapy chairs and 4 dialysis chairs. The clinic has over 1,000 employees, including 300 doctors, who guarantee an individual approach to each patient and a high level of medical care.
The clinic offers a wide array of services, including plastic and cosmetic surgery, cancer recovery surgery, trauma surgery (breast reconstruction, upper and lower limb surgery, etc.). The clinic invests in progressive treatment methods and modern high-precision medical technologies, reaffirming its status as one of the best European hospitals.
The hospital uses state-of-the-art medical equipment, namely in the emergency care unit. The equipment used by the clinic includes: da Vinci Robotics Xi and NAVIO robotized systems, CyberKnifeTM system, Siemens MAGNETON Vida 3T MRI machine, linear accelerators, PET-CT scanners, an improved Gamma Knife for neurosurgery, as well as other high-precision diagnostics and treatment technology.
The London Clinic Cancer Centre received the Highly Commended Award at the Building Better Healthcare Awards in 2018 for special achievements in the field. The centre's team of specialists treats all types of cancer with the aid of modern equipment. There are 47 specialised inpatient rooms which help the team provide a special level of medical care.
The centre's stem cell unit has the largest stem cell collection centre in Europe certified by ISCT Europe and EMBT (JACIE). The stem cell collection centre is working with charity organisations, collecting over 700 donations each year and storing them until they are matched up with a patient.
The clinic also has its own research center that holds international clinical trials every year. Over 200 patients have taken part in clinical trials based in the London Clinic.
History
The hospital's building was designed by Charles Henry Biddulph-Pinchard and officially opened by the Duchess of York in 1932. In 2005, the clinic became the first facility in the UK to have used the da Vinci Surgical System, which allows consultants to perform complex procedures.
Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Duke of Edinburgh opened the clinic's Cancer Centre, built at a cost of €80 million, as well as the Duchess of Devonshire Wing, in 2010. In 2018, the centre received the International Cancer Centre of the Year Award from the International Medical Travel Journal.
In November 2015, the clinic received a line of credit to the tune of £65 mln from the HSBC to expand investment in updating the technology and equipment used by radiology and intensive care units.
In 2019, the clinic opened its Centre for Robotic Surgery.
The most effective surgeries and procedures
Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT): this procedure uses several precisely targeted rays to treat tumors and other diseases in the brain, lungs, spine, neck, liver and other organs.
Adaptive radiotherapy: applied during treatment of bladder cancer.
CAR-T-cell therapy: a cutting-edge transformative treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Lutetium-199 PSMA therapy: an innovative molecular therapy used to treat metastatic prostate cancer.
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT): IORT is used to treat aggressive types of brain cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. The London Clinic carries out IORT with the aid of the Carl Zeiss Intrabeam® innovative system.
Prostatic artery embolisation for benign prostatic hyperplasia: the procedure involves blocking the arteries that supply blood to the benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Bladder cancer robotic surgery: the surgery is performed under general anaesthetic. During the surgery, six incisions are made in the patient's abdominal cavity. Each incision is about 1 centimetre long.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery: surgeons remove the torn ligament and replace it with a suitable graft usually taken from the patient's tissue (kneecap tendon or the semitendinosus muscle).
Colonoscopy: the London Clinic effectively performs colonoscopy using the GI GeniusTM module, which helps detect colorectal cancer at the earliest stages.
Achievements
In 2018, the London Clinic received the International Cancer Centre of the Year Award from the International Medical Travel Journal (IMTJ).
In the same year, the hospital received the Highly Commended Award for notable achievements in patient care.
In 2019, the clinic received the Bronze Award of the National Inclusion Standard.
In 2020, the hospital was awarded by the International Medical Journal (IMTJ) for the best use of technology in medical tourism. The clinic received this award for the development of the Connect digital platform that provides telemedicine services.
The clinic boasts a LaingBuisson Management Excellence Award for its medical services, financial results and staff productivity.
The clinic also runs as a charity. Its surpluses are reinvested into three key areas: patient care, research and innovation, as well as education and training.
Joint Advisory Group (JAG) accreditation in the sphere of gastrointestinal endoscopy. This award recognizes the difficult and specialized nature of approximately 8,000 procedures carried out by the clinic's team of doctors every year.
The UKAS ISO15189:2012 standard in biochemistry and hematology (including blood transfusion).
The CPA ISO15189 standard in microbiology and histopathology.
The JACIE accreditation in the use of stem cells.
The MHRA accreditation in the sphere of blood transfusion.
The Human Tissue Authority License in the sphere of organ donation and transplantation.
The LRQA ISO9001:2008 standard in radiotherapy.
The CHKS accreditation in cancer treatment.
The ISO9001:2015 standard in radiotherapy and radionuclide therapy.
Location
The London Clinic's Main Hospital is situated at the corner of Devonshire Place and Marylebone Road in central London. The hospital has 4 additional buildings: three in northern London and one on the northern outskirts of London.
The Main Hospital building is located near Madame Tussauds London, Queen Mary's Rose Gardens and the Sherlock Holmes Museum.
