St George's is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and shares its main hospital site in Tooting, south west London, with the renowned St George's University of London which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research.
The Trust provides all the usual care expected from a local NHS hospital - such as accident and emergency, maternity services and care for older people and children, but, as a major acute hospital, St George's also offers very specialist care for the most complex of injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke.
With over 6,000 staff and around 1,000 beds, St George's serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling about 3.5 million people.
St George's also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in the south east of England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The Trust also provides a nationwide endoscopy training centre from a state-of-the-art facility at St George's Hospital.
In terms of joint strategic objectives, the two organisations aim for high-quality basic medical science, linked to well-focused and expanding international-level clinical research.
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