Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

{{Short description|A specialist alternative medicine hospital located in London}}

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| Name = Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

| Org/Group = University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

| Image = File:The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in Great Ormond Street - geograph.org.uk - 1656486.jpg

| Caption = Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in Great Ormond Street in 2009

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| Location = London, {{postcode|WC|1}}

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| Country = United Kingdom

| HealthCare = NHS

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| Affiliation= University College London

| Beds = None{{cite web|url=http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0738AB82-6033-4705-9E82-786E9CE49F75/0/RoyalLondonHospitalforIntegratedMedicineinteractiveguidebrochure.pdf|title=Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine guide|access-date=17 September 2010|publisher=University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111010639/http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0738AB82-6033-4705-9E82-786E9CE49F75/0/RoyalLondonHospitalforIntegratedMedicineinteractiveguidebrochure.pdf|archive-date=11 November 2010}}

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| Website = [http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/ University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust]

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| map_caption=Shown in Westminster

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The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) is a specialist alternative medicine hospital located in London, England and a part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It is the largest public sector provider of complementary medicine in Europe. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, adjacent to Great Ormond Street Hospital.{{cite web|url=https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/our-services/our-hospitals/royal-london-hospital-integrated-medicine|title=Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine|access-date=17 September 2010|publisher=University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust}}

History

The London Homoeopathic Hospital was established in Golden Square, Soho, in 1849.{{cite web|url=http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/About+UCLH/History+and+archives/UCLH+trust+chronology.htm|title=UCLH trust chronology|access-date=17 September 2010|publisher=University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411203613/http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/About+UCLH/History+and+archives/UCLH+trust+chronology.htm|archive-date=11 April 2009}} Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, the first homeopathic physician in England, had been instrumental in the founding of the hospital.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Quin, Frederic Hervey Foster|last= Boase|first=George Clement|authorlink=George Clement Boase|volume=47|quote=Chiefly through his exertions the London Homeopathic Hospital was founded in 1850}} It moved to its present site in Great Ormond Street in 1859, the year when Quin took the chair of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school. The hospital joined the NHS as a teaching hospital becoming the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital by permission of King George VI in 1948. It was brought under the management of the Bloomsbury Health Authority in 1982 and it joined University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (now University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) in 2002. The hospital was renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in September 2010 to better reflect its activities.{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gAesz_gMqocuHeMww94UL4vfv7SA|title=Hospital drops 'homeopathy' title|access-date=17 September 2010|publisher= The Press Association| date=16 September 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

It stopped providing NHS-funded homeopathic remedies in April 2018.{{cite news|title=NHS homeopathy ending in London|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43373817|access-date=11 May 2018|publisher=BBC News|date=13 March 2018}}

In 2024, King Charles III became patron of the hospital, a role Queen Elizabeth II had filled until her death in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/his-majesty-king-charles-iii-accepts-patronages-university-college-hospital-and-royal-london-hospital-integrated-medicine|title=His Majesty King Charles III accepts patronages of University College Hospital and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine|website=UCLH NHS Foundation Trust|access-date=2 June 2024}}

Services

The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine offers clinical services including complementary cancer treatments, allergy services, acupuncture, rheumatology, weight loss management, sleep management, musculoskeletal medicine, and stress management. It has an education department which offers full and part-time courses in complementary medicine for registered health professionals. It is also home to a specialist library for complementary and alternative medicine.