History
In July 2007 the then Health Minister Lord Darzi recommended the establishment of a number of academic health science centres in the UK.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust (now Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), UCL and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced their intention to form UCL Partners in August 2008. In February 2009 Professor Sir Cyril Chantler was appointed as the first Chair of UCL Partners and it was officially designated as one of the UK’s first academic health science centres by the UK Department of Health in March 2009.
Key strategic appointments were made in summer 2009, including Professor David Fish as Managing Director and seven Programme Directors. An alliance between UCL, UCL Partners, Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital was announced in October 2009. The UCL Partners academic strategy and key research priorities were agreed in November 2009. In October 2011 it was reported that Barts and The London NHS Trust and Queen Mary, University of London had agreed to join UCL Partners, making it the largest academic health science centre in the world.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust agreed to join UCL Partners in April 2012.
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