University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street in March 2015
Location within Westminster
Geography
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care systemNHS England
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity College London
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds95
SpecialityThoracic surgery and urology services
History
Opened1857
Links
WebsiteUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ListsHospitals in the United Kingdom

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, named The Heart Hospital until refurbished and renamed in 2015, was a specialist cardiac hospital located in London, United Kingdom until 2015. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is closely associated with University College London (UCL). After the 2015 refurbishment, the hospital now provides thoracic surgery and urology services.

Before the 2015 refurbishment, the Heart Hospital conducted over 1,000 surgical heart operations each year, had 95 in-patient beds, and was one of the largest cardiac centres in the UK. It treated around 1,700 new outpatients, 5,500 follow-up outpatients and 1,200 inpatients each year. It was a centre for cardiac research, home to the UCL Centre for Cardiology in the Young, and part of the UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL Partners academic health science centre.