King's College Hospital

King's College Hospital (KCH)
King's Health Partners King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King's College Hospital main entrance
Geography
Location	Denmark Hill, London, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	King's College London / KCLMS
Services
Emergency department	Level 1 Trauma Center
Beds	950
Speciality	Liver Disease, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Dentistry, Trauma (medicine)
History
Founded	1840, current site 1909
Links
Website	www.kch.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an acute care facility in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's" or abbreviated internally to "KCH". It serves an inner city population of 700,000 in the London boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth but also serves as a tertiary referral centre in certain specialties to millions of people in southern England. It is a large teaching hospital and is, with Guy's Hospital and St. Thomas' Hospital, the location of King's College London School of Medicine and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. The current chief executive is Nick Moberley.

King's was originally opened in 1840 in the disused St Clement Danes workhouse in Portugal Street close to Lincoln's Inn Fields and the College itself. It was used as a training facility where medical students of King's College London could practice and receive instruction from the college's own professors. The surrounding area there was composed of overcrowded slums characterised by poverty and disease. Within two years of opening, the hospital was treating 1,290 inpatients in 120 beds, with two patients sharing a bed by no means unusual. The main contractor for the new hospital was Lucas Brothers.