History
The Free Hospital was founded in 1828 to provide free hospital care to the poor. The title 'Royal' was granted by Queen Victoria in 1837 in recognition of the hospital's treatment of cholera victims. For a long period the Royal Free Hospital was the only hospital in London to offer clinical instruction to women and was closely associated with the London School of Medicine for Women, later renamed the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine.
The Royal Free Hospital moved to its present site in the mid-1970s, bringing together the old Royal Free Hospital on Gray's Inn Road with the Lawn Road, New End and Hampstead General hospitals. In April 1991 the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, comprising the The Royal Free Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, became one of the first NHS trusts established under the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. In August 2008 the Trust announced its intention to form the UCL Partners academic health science centre with University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. UCL Partners was officially designated as an academic health science centres by the UK Department of Health in March 2009. In April the Trust announced that it would be making 450 redundancies as part of a plan to reduce costs by £40 million per year.
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust was authorised by Monitor as an NHS foundation trust on 1 April 2012, subsequently changing its name to the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. In the same month, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust took over management of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital from the Trust.
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