King's Health Partners

King's Health Partners is an academic health science centre located in London, United Kingdom. It comprises King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
King's Health Partners' member organisations have a combined annual turnover of around £3.7 billion, treat over 4.8 million patients each year, employ approximately 40,000 staff and teach nearly 30,000 students. It forms one of the largest centres for healthcare education in Europe.

History

The four partners announced their intention to form an academic health science centre in April 2008. On 9 March 2009 the UK Department of Health announced that King's Health Partners would be one of six academic health science centres established in England.

King's Health Partners incorporates some Medical Research Council centres, including the following:

MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology
MRC Centre for Neurodegenerative Research
MRC Centre for Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry
MRC Centre for Transplantation
MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health
MRC National Institute for Medical Research including the MRC Biomedical NMR Centre.

King's Health Partners' research is focused on the following key programme areas:

King's College London GKT School of Medical Education provides core medical education at three King's Health Partners - Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. King's Health Partners also collaborate with training and provide link education for other allied health professionals from other institutions.