University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street in London was a specialist heart hospital linked to University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It began as the National Heart Hospital in 1857 and moved to Westmoreland Street in 1913, making it one of the first hospitals built to treat heart disease and to train doctors. It was renamed The Heart Hospital and, before 2015, had about 95 beds and performed more than 1,000 heart operations each year, with thousands of outpatients and inpatients. It was also a centre for heart research, hosting the UCL Centre for Cardiology in the Young. In 1991 its cardiac services moved to the Royal Brompton Hospital. The building then became a private hospital in 1997 after being sold in 1994. It was later brought back into the NHS by University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and rebranded The Heart Hospital, housing the trust’s cardiac services. In 2015, NHS England decided to move all cardiac services to the Bart’s Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital to create one site for cardiovascular care. Since then, the Westmoreland Street site has offered thoracic surgery and urology.
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