October 2015 marked 10 years since we opened the doors of our children’s hospital on the site at St Thomas’.
Our award-winning building was designed around the needs of children, their families and staff. The result is ‘a hospital that doesn’t feel like a hospital’ with state-of-the-art equipment and services.
Since opening, we’ve had more than half a million visits by young patients to our hospital building alone.
Over the years, Evelina London has not only served the local population but welcomed community services and become established as a leading specialist centre.
Ten things you might not know about Evelina London in 2015
- We’re London’s first new children‘s hospital building for more than 100 years
- We now look after 55,000 patients a year
- Our kidney and urology team serve a population of around 10 million. We provide around 1 in 5 of the UK‘s kidney transplants in children
- We have an international reputation for treating heart problems in children – 440 heart operations are performed every year
- Our paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) cares for 1,225 children each year
- We’re home to the Centre for the Developing Brain, which does pioneering research to understand brain development in newborn babies
- Our neonatal unit cares for 900 babies every year
- In 2014-15 there were 400 children who took part in clinical trials to help develop new treatments
- Around 24,000 visits are made to our children’s A&E department each year
- Evelina London was the first children’s hospital to allow a parent to join their child in the ambulance.
Now we are 10
Our patient, Kirsty, shared what it's like being 10.
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