About us
The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust manages Northwick Park and St Mark’s hospitals in Harrow and Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal.
We care for more than half a million people living across Brent and Harrow as well as patients from all over the country and internationally at St Mark’s, our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.
We employ more than 4,300 doctors, nurses, therapists, scientists and other health professionals as well as administrative and support staff, making us one of the largest employers locally.
We are a major centre for undergraduate and postgraduate education – teaching many nurses, doctors and other health professionals each year. Our principal partners are Imperial College London and Thames Valley University.
In 2010/11…
- Our mortality rates were among the lowest in the UK
- Our stroke care was in the top 25 per cent in the UK, according to a report by the Royal College of Physicians
- 100% of patients received stroke-preventing carotid artery surgery within 14 days of referral, putting us top in a national audit
- 90 per cent of patients with respiratory conditions rated our services as excellent or very good
- We reduced infections even further to just four cases of MRSA, against a target of eight
- St Mark’s Hospital celebrated its 175th anniversary
- We were applauded for our children’s Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia services.
- Our sexual health service electronic patient records significantly reduces the time patients with Chlamydia wait to be treated
- We developed new ways of stopping elderly patients falling while they are in hospital.