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NHS prescription charges Prof Ralph Shackman As part of a major NHS NHS and Community Care Act New HIV test is developed The first virtual reality With academic partner Christine Norton becomes Connecting care for children Imperial Biomedical Research first introduced. establishes one of the UK’s reorganisation, our introduces the NHS internal at . ophthalmic simulator in Imperial College, the the Trust’s first professor service is established, Centre and Imperial Health first artificial kidney units come under the control of market and NHS trusts. the UK is unveiled at the Trust becomes one of the of nursing, in a joint pioneering an integrated Charity launches the research at their respective local health . UK’s first academic health appointment with Bucks care approach across north fellowship awards to support and helps pioneer the authorities. science centres. New University. west . non-medics at the Trust to development of dialysis. undertake research. 1952 1956 1974 1990 1998 2006 2009 2010 2013 2014

Prof Francis Crick and St Mary’s Hospital medical The NHS launches a The contraceptive pill is Prof John Goldman pioneers Hammersmith Hospital helps Merger of St Mary’s The children’s intensive care St Mary’s NHS Trust and The NHS Organ Donor The new Queen Charlotte’s Imperial Biomedical Research The Health and Social Care The Trust leads one of 13 The first human trial using Hammersmith and Dr James Watson discover student Roger Bannister runs programme to vaccinate made widely available. the use of bone marrow pioneer the use of magnetic Hospital Medical School unit at St Mary’s Hospital NHS Trust Register is launched. and Chelsea Hospital next Centre is one of the first Act establishes clinical genomic medicine centres kisspeptin to improve IVF Integrated Care Partnership is Hospitals that the structure of DNA. the first ever 4-minute mile. everyone under the age transplants to treat chronic resonance imaging in with Imperial College. opens, led by Dr Parviz Habibi. are formed. to Hammersmith Hospital is 11 such NHS and academic commissioning groups. established by NHS treatment takes place at established with primary care, A bright future of 15 against polio and myeloid leukaemia at medicine. opened by HRH Princess Anne. partnerships funded by the to support the 100,000 Hammersmith Hospital. acute, community and mental diphtheria. Hammersmith Hospital; over NHS National Institute of Genome Project. health partners. make history three decades, he continues to Health Research. develop understanding of the Our hospitals and people remain committed to condition and new treatments. research, innovation and improvement as we explore new opportunities including those made possible by The NHS was created in 1948. With a continuing recent developments in genomics, artificial intelligence, commitment to provide care for all, based on clinical ‘big data’ and digital technology. And we must respond need and free at the point of delivery, it remains one 1953 1954 1958 1961 1975 1982 1988 1992 1993 1994 2001 2006 2012 2014 2015 2016 to new challenges too, including health issues relating of the UK’s proudest achievements. It has enabled and to changes in our lifestyles and our aging population. supported some of the biggest advances in health and care worldwide. Sir Richard Doll establishes a The UK’s first heart-lung The UK’s first successful kidney Queen Charlotte’s consultant CT scans are introduced. The first case of AIDS in the Hammersmith Hospital Merger of Charing Cross The first heart, lung, and liver The Queen Elizabeth the Former St Mary’s Hospital Creation of NICE, the National The da Vinci robot is first The hyper-acute stroke Hammersmith Hospital’s Imperial College Academic In a UK first, focused Stay in touch with our developments or, even better, clear link between smoking machine, developed by transplant takes place at obstetrician Sultan Karim UK is identified at the Praed becomes a special health and hospitals transplant is carried out at Queen Mother Building consultant Prof John Collinge Institute for Clinical Excellence used in the UK for heart unit opens at Charing Cross heart attack centre opens Health Science Centre expands ultrasound is used at get involved - such as by taking part in a clinical trial, While the hospitals and people who make up Imperial and lung cancer. Prof Denis Melrose, is used Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. is the first to report on the Street Clinic at St Mary’s authority. medical schools. Papworth Hospital. opens at St Mary’s Hospital. demonstrates that the new (now National Institute for surgery by Prof Lord Ara Hospital as part of a as part of a London-wide to include The Royal Marsden to volunteering or becoming a lay partner. For more College Healthcare have an even longer track record at Hammersmith Hospital; clinical use of prostaglandins Hospital. disease, variant CJD, is caused Health and Care Excellence). Darzi at St Mary’s Hospital. London-wide programme programme to consolidate and Royal Brompton and treat debilitating tremors, information, see our website of innovation and achievement, they have played an Prof Melrose also pioneers a to initiate labour. by the same prion strain as to consolidate specialist specialist services in order NHS foundation avoiding brain surgery. www.imperial.nhs.uk/get-involved important role in shaping the NHS – and being shaped technique for safely stopping that causing BSE in cattle. services in order to improve to improve outcomes. trusts. by the NHS – from the start. the heart during surgery. outcomes.

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First daily pollen count in the Hammersmith Hospital Prof Rodney Porter, working Her Majesty the Queen Charing Cross Hospital Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Comprehensive national Averil , consultant Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Charing Cross and Imperial College Healthcare St Mary’s Hospital becomes The iKnife, invented at The first Trust-wide electronic UK begins – set up by becomes the first hospital in at St Mary’s Hospital Medical officially opens the new establishes one of two and Chelsea Hospital for breast-screening programme vascular surgeon at St Mary’s Trust is formed from the Westminster Medical School NHS Trust is formed by the one of four major trauma Imperial College, is used patient record system begins Dr AW Frankland at St Mary’s the world to have a medical School, discovers the 4-chain Charing Cross Hospital on centres providing a national Women merges with the is introduced. Hospital, becomes the merger of Hammersmith, merges with Imperial College, merger of St Mary’s and centres designated for London. in first trials to identify to roll out. Hospital to cover London. cyclotron, a particle accelerator structure of antibody Fulham Palace Road. screening service for Hammersmith Hospital to UK’s first female professor Charing Cross, Queen The National Heart and Hammersmith Hospitals cancerous tissue in real- with many applications molecules, for which he later choriocarcinoma, a rare form the Hammersmith and of surgery. Charlotte’s and Chelsea and Lung Institute and the Royal NHS trusts. time during surgery in our including radiotherapy and receives a Nobel Prize. cancer linked to pregnancy. Queen Charlotte’s Special Acton hospitals. Postgraduate Medical School hospitals. advanced imaging. Health Authority. to form Imperial College School of Medicine.

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The first daily pollen count First successful separation of UK’s first carotid A-block opens at Led by Prof , In a world first, high intensity NHS Five Year Forward View Charing Cross Hospital trials conjoined twins in the UK is endarterectomy to prevent Hammersmith Hospital. the Institute of Reproductive ultrasound is used at published, setting out a vision a new one-stop service performed by Prof Ian Aird stroke performed by Mr HHG and Developmental Biology Hammersmith Hospital to for more integrated care. for men with suspected and Mr Selwyn-Taylor at Eastcott at St Mary’s Hospital. opens at Hammersmith remove part of a patient’s prostate cancer, reducing Hammersmith Hospital. Hospital. rectal tumour. diagnosis times from six weeks to just one week.

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