Wellington Hospital, United Kingdom
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The Wellington Hospital in London is the largest independent hospital in the United Kingdom, located in St John's Wood
, North London.
It has an international reputation for outstanding care in areas of medicine including cardiac services, neurosurgery, liver and HPB medicine, rehabilitation, gynaecology, orthopaedics and many others.
The Wellington Hospital has four main sites: North Tower, South Tower, Central Building and the new Platinum Medical Centre.
The Wellington Hospital, The Platinum Medical Centre and The Diagnostics & Outpatients Centre at Golders Green are supported by a full range of diagnostic services including: Magnetic Resonance Scanners (MRI)
, PET CT (Low Dose, Dual Source), 64 Slice CT scanner, Digital Radiology
, Interventional Radiology Lab, Ultrasound
(multi-use), Cardiac imaging & Research Centre (CIRC) and Pathology
Services.
The most recent addition to The Wellington Hospital is the new Platinum Medical Centre, which opened on 3rd May 2011. The Platinum Medical Centre houses an extensive diagnostic and imaging centre with PET CT and two of the latest MRI scanners together with the full range of X-Ray, ultrasound and cardiology diagnostics. It will also have London's most modern chemotherapy centre with a special pharmacy, a conventional pharmacy and four operating theatres for day case surgery with 12 patient day beds. The building, in Lodge Road, also has 50 consulting rooms and other extensive patient facilities.
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district of north-west London, England, in the City of Westminster, and at the north-west end of Regent's Park. It is approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Charing Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem...
, North London.
It has an international reputation for outstanding care in areas of medicine including cardiac services, neurosurgery, liver and HPB medicine, rehabilitation, gynaecology, orthopaedics and many others.
The Wellington Hospital has four main sites: North Tower, South Tower, Central Building and the new Platinum Medical Centre.
The Wellington Hospital, The Platinum Medical Centre and The Diagnostics & Outpatients Centre at Golders Green are supported by a full range of diagnostic services including: Magnetic Resonance Scanners (MRI)
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , or magnetic resonance tomography is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures...
, PET CT (Low Dose, Dual Source), 64 Slice CT scanner, Digital Radiology
Radiology
Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
, Interventional Radiology Lab, Ultrasound
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Ultrasound is thus not separated from "normal" sound based on differences in physical properties, only the fact that humans cannot hear it. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is...
(multi-use), Cardiac imaging & Research Centre (CIRC) and Pathology
Pathology
Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....
Services.
The most recent addition to The Wellington Hospital is the new Platinum Medical Centre, which opened on 3rd May 2011. The Platinum Medical Centre houses an extensive diagnostic and imaging centre with PET CT and two of the latest MRI scanners together with the full range of X-Ray, ultrasound and cardiology diagnostics. It will also have London's most modern chemotherapy centre with a special pharmacy, a conventional pharmacy and four operating theatres for day case surgery with 12 patient day beds. The building, in Lodge Road, also has 50 consulting rooms and other extensive patient facilities.