Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and St Mary's NHS Trust came together on 1st October 2007 to form Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the United Kingdom's first true Academic Health Science Centre, forming a single institution with Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine. It is made up of five hospitals – Charing Cross , Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea , Hammersmith , St Mary's and the Western Eye – the new Trust is the largest in the UK and has an annual turnover of £800 million, treating more than a million patients a year.

An Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) brings together healthcare services with teaching and research in a single institution, and, in a groundbreaking move for the National Health Service, the Principal of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College London, Professor Stephen Smith, has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the new Trust in addition to his previous role. The Chairman of the Trust is Lord Tugendhat and Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College, has been appointed a Non-Executive Director. The Managing Director from 1st April 2008 is Claire Perry, previously an NHS chief executive for 15 years at University Hospital Lewisham.