| Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine | |
| University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Affiliated university | University College London |
| Services | |
| Beds | None[1] |
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| Website | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
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The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) is a specialist complementary medicine hospital located in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is located in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, adjacent to Great Ormond Street Hospital.[2]
The hospital is the largest public sector provider of complementary medicine in Europe.[2] It offers clinical services including complementary cancer treatments, allergy services, acupuncture, homeopathy, rheumatology, weight loss management, sleep management, musculoskeletal medicine and stress management, and has access to conventional medicine.[2] It has the largest education department of its kind in the UK, offering full and part-time courses in complementary medicine for registered health professionals.[1] It is also home to the most comprehensive specialist library for complementary and alternative medicine in the UK.[1]
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The London Homoeopathic Hospital was established in Golden Square, Soho, in 1849.[3] Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, the first homeopathic physician in England, had been instrumental in the founding of the hospital.[4] It moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859,[3] the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school.[4] In 1948 the hospital joined the NHS as a teaching hospital and became the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital by permission of George VI.[3] In 1982 the hospital was brought under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority and in 2002 it joined University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).[3] The hospital was renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in September 2010 to better reflect its activities.[5]
The following clinical services are currently provided at the hospital:[1]
The hospital operates on an outpatients clinic basis but has access to inpatient services.
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