London Chest Hospital, London
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This hospital is part of Barts Health NHS Trust
General hospital information
- Number of beds: 103
- % of single rooms: 17%
- Total parking spaces: 12
- Average parking fee per hour: £0.00
Address & description
Barts and The London is one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. Our world-renowned hospitals – St Bartholomew’s (Barts) in the City, The Royal London in Whitechapel and The London Chest in Bethnal Green - are home to world-class specialist centres, from cancer and digestive diseases to trauma and a leading children’s hospital.
Barts and The London is undergoing the largest and most complex hospital redevelopment project in the world. The £1 billion programme will replace many of the hospitals’ ageing buildings with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to rival the best in Europe. The Royal London will be Britain’s biggest new hospital, providing general and specialist services to the population of east London and beyond. The historic buildings of Barts, Britain’s oldest hospital, are being refurbished, alongside a major new building, to create a Cancer and Cardiac Centre of Excellence.
Our hospitals have a high concentration of complex cases, which means that we have some of Britain's leading specialists on our teams. Their expertise benefits all of our patients, including those coming in for more routine procedures.
Our daily mission is to bring excellence to life - to give patients the best possible care so that they can live better, fuller, longer lives.
We continue to earn our reputation for clinical quality with some outstanding results and achievements during the year. Barts and The London maintained one of the best survival rates in the country – 24.7% better than would be expected.
Working closely with our academic partners, our specialists align world class research with clinical practice to ensure that our patients benefit from new cures and treatments as quickly as possible.
The London Chest Hospital is a leading teaching hospital based in east London that offers a range of local and specialist services, including the treatment of heart and lung conditions. Home to Barts and The London Heart Attack Centre, our specialists receive emergency heart attack patients 24-hours a day, a service that has been shown emphatically to save lives and reduce the risk of further heart attacks. We also offer a service to patients with allergies and cystic fibrosis.
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Accident & Emergency services at London Chest Hospital
cardiac services (heart attack) |
National average | |
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| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital |
N/A
 The National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) states that 75% of eligible heart attack patients in England should receive thrombolytic drugs within 30 minutes of arriving at hospital. Read more about this indicator.
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75% |
| Patients having thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for help |
N/A
This standard reflects the combined performance of the ambulance service, general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals and is the most relevant overall indicator of care of heart attack patients. It encourages collaborative working across all relevant NHS organisations, particularly between ambulance services and hospitals to reduce delays to thrombolytic treatment. The call for professional help will usually be direct to the ambulance service but may be to a GP or NHS Direct. The Department of Health has set NHS organisations in England the target of 68% of patients receiving thrombolytic treatment within 60 minutes of calling for professional help. Read more about this indicator
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68% |
| Primary angioplasty within 90 minutes of arrival at interventional centre door |
N/A
An interim good practice standard of 90 minutes from arrival at an interventional hospital to the time when the blocked artery is reopened (door to balloon time) has been established for provision of primary angioplasty, based on international guidelines.
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90% |
| Patients discharged from hospital on secondary prevention medication | ||
| Asprin | N/A | 99% |
| Beta blocker | N/A | 96% |
| Statins | N/A | 97% |
| ACE inhibitor | N/A | 94% |
| Clopidogrel | N/A | 95% |