St Mary’s Hospital London is located in Paddington, North West London. It serves as the major acute centre for North West London and runs one of London’s four major trauma centres along with a 24 hour Accident & Emergency department. It also provides medical care, surgery, critical care, maternity, children and young people’s services, end of life care and outpatient services.
St Mary’s Hospital is part of Imperial College academic health science centre, established along with other academic health centres to bring together universities and healthcare providers together to focus on research and to ensure that the benefits of medical breakthroughs are passed on to the patients. Imperial College healthcare operates five major hospitals across London.
The Hospital also forms part of the globally recognised Imperial College School of Medicine, which ranks among the best in the world in terms of research and education.
Established in 1845, it was the last voluntary hospital to be set up in London. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in his laboratory in the basement of the hospital. In more recent times, St Mary’s became the birth place of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, the children of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Travelling to St Mary’s Hospital
St Mary’s is situated on Praed Street in Paddington, North West London, W2 1NY. It is very well connected, being adjacent to London Paddington Station, which is both a major railway terminus and a London Underground station, served by the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines.
If you are travelling from outside of London, both Paddington overground station (approx. 5 mins) and Marelybone overground railway station (15 mins) are within walking distance. Of St Mary’s Hospital.
If you are travelling by bus, routes; 7, 23, 27, 36, 205, 332, 436, N7, and N205 all stop close to the hospital.
For international travellers, there are numerous airports that serve London, with good connections from Heathrow, Luton, and London City airport.
St Mary’s Hospital Parking
If you are visiting by car, please note that there is no onsite car parking facility, however you can make use of a pick-up and drop-off point which is conveniently located outside the main entrance.
Nearby parking is available and operated by Westminster City Council and parking costs £2.40 per hour and operates between Monday and Saturday from 08:30 to 18:30. Please note there is a maximum time limit of 4 hours. Disabled bays can be found on South Wharf Road.
St Mary’s Hospital rating
In CQC quality inspections, St Mary’s Hospital is rate ‘good’ for the categories ‘caring’ and ‘effective’ and the hospital generally elicits praise from patients when asked about their treatment and care.
The NHS’ Friends and Family test, created to help service providers monitor the satisfaction of their patients, scores the hospital above the national average on most categories and the CQC report notes that a high number of patients would recommend the hospital to their friends and family.