Northwick Park Hospital

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Northwick Park Hospital is a large Hospital in North West London, England. It is in proximity to the Greater London areas of Harrow, Kenton and Wembley. The hospital is primarily a National Health Service (NHS) hospital (although it has some private funding units). It is part of the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. St. Mark's Hospital, a national centre of gastrointestinal medicine is based at the same site.

The hospital was featured in the classic 1970s comedy Fawlty Towers and the 1976 horror film The Omen, and has been used as a set for both series of the Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing.

The hospital has its own hospital radio station called Radio Northwick Park.

In 2005 the hospital's maternity department was named as having one of the highest death rates in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

On Monday, 13th March 2006, six patients participating in a drug trial at the independent Parexel drug trial unit became severely unwell following administration of a trial drug (TGN1412) and were transferred to the intensive therapy unit at Northwick Park. Affected patients developed multi-organ failure and required intensive medical support by the critical care team at NPH, led by Dr Ganesh Suntharalingam. All the patients subsequently survived and the last one was discharged in June 2006.

Northwick Park is also one of the few hospitals in England to have a Paternoster lift transport system. This was featured in the film Omen. The system is controlled by smart card access for staff only.