Updated 31 January 2020
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a large provider of acute and specialist services that services a population of over 1,000,000 in North West London, the south east and further afield.
The trust operates at two acute sites:
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- West Middlesex Hospital
The trust provides services to a number of local boroughs including services to Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Ealing, Richmond and Wandsworth. The trust provides specialist services for patients from London, the South East and beyond, including paediatric and neonatal surgery, the extensive HIV and sexual health service in Europe and a regional burns unit for London.
The trust had their first inspection as a merged trust in December 2017 and improved from a requires improvement rating at both sites to a good rating at both sites.
The trust has 1007 beds including:
- 166 children’s beds/cots
- 131 maternity beds
- 35 critical care and burns unit beds and
- 675 acute adult beds