Whittington Hospital

Whittington Health aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve. We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Harin es to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’. In the financial year 2020-21 we had an income of £395 million, and over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London. Our priority is to provide the right care, at the right time and in the right place for our patients. We provide a large range of services from the hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. We also run services from 30 community locations in Islington and Haringey. Over the past year we have reviewed and developed services to make them stronger and better support the needs of patients. As an integrated care organisation we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience. Key to our approach is partnering with patients, carers, GPs, social care, mental health and other healthcare providers. Our organisation has a highly-regarded educational role. We teach undergraduate medical students (as part of UCL Medical School) and nurses and therapists throughout the year, alongside providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professionals. We have developed four key strategic objectives to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives: Deliver outstanding safe, compassionate care. Empower, support and develop staff. Integrate care with partners and promote health and wellbeing. Transform and deliver innovative, financially sustainable services. You can find out more about our ambitions and plans for the future in Our Strategy, or watch our two minute overview video below. You can also view our Values and Objectives Poster to see how our vision, values and objectives all fit together. Medical services have been delivered on the Whittington site since 1473, when a leper hospital was founded. In 1848, a new hospital was built on the St Mary's site, to care for patients with smallpox during the period of epidemic. Independently managed hospitals were opened on the Highgate site in 1866 and the Archway site in 1877. In 1900, Highgate Hill Infirmary opened adjacent to the Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital. The two hospitals soon amalgamated, and the Smallpox Hospital was transformed into a nurses' home. In 1946, the hospitals on all three sites were brought together. The three hospitals had between them almost 2,000 beds. With the coming of the National Health Service in 1948, they jointly became The Whittington Hospital and began to modernise. The hospital is now on the central St Mary's site, and has 330 beds. We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients whether we see them in our hospital, out in our sites across North London or in their own homes. Helping local people live longer, healthier lives. ...view more