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The old hospital, now largely demolished. The hospital was established as an infirmary for sick paupers at the Willesden Workhouse in 1903. [1] Extensions were built in 1908, 1911 and 1914. [1] The facility became the Willesden Institution in 1914, the Park Royal Hospital in 1921 and the Central Middlesex County Hospital in 1931. [1]
It finished the financial year 2014/5 with a deficit of £55.9 million. [6]In October and November 2014 it had the worst performance in the country on the Four-hour target in emergency departments after the two smaller casualty units at Central Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals were closed in September. [7]
The site is also used by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services there. [8] In August 2022 it started using the DrDoctor care co-ordination platform, integrated with EMIS Web, to let patients to choose when they attend appointments. [9]
The Trust was designated a Genomic Medicine Centre in 2014. The same year, Hammersmith Hospital became the first in Europe to use a new heart mapping system to treat patients with complicated heart rhythm disorders. In a UK first in 2016, focused ultrasound was used at Charing Cross Hospital to treat essential tremor without brain surgery.
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Following its transfer back into civilian hands in 1920, the hospital became the North Middlesex Hospital. [2] Control passed from the Edmonton Board of Guardians to Middlesex County Council in April 1930. [2] The hospital was the first British hospital to appoint a radiotherapist (Margaret Bromhall) to lead a radiotherapy department, in 1934. [3]
Polyclinics in England were intended to offer a greater range of services than were offered by current general practitioner (GP) practices and local health centres. In addition to traditional GP services they would offer extended urgent care, healthy living services, community mental health services and social care, whilst being more accessible and less medicalised than hospitals. [1]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital (since 1 September 2015). [1] The Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2006. [2] The Trust's chief executive is Lesley Watts [3] and its chairman is Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett. [4]