Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
NHS Trust based in London
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| 2022 | Reduced outstanding maintenance bill to £736 million, though still the largest in the English NHS. |
| April 1 2022 | Matthew Swindells became the new chair of the Trust, notably becoming the first joint chair for four acute trusts in north west London. |
| 2021 | Predicted to achieve a full-year surplus by 2021/22. |
| 2020 | The trust board decided to keep previously Sodexo-run services in-house and committed to spending an extra £4 million annually to bring hotel services staff up to the London living wage of £10.55 per hour. |
| April 2020 | Imperial College Healthcare became the first NHS Trust to start using the Concentric digital informed consent application to support patients undergoing surgical treatment. |
| April 2020 | Over 1,000 Sodexo cleaners, caterers, and porters were converted to NHS employees after months of campaigning by the UVW union, resolving disputes about pay, sick pay, annual leave, and pensions. |
| 2019 | A patient achieved a sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing antiretroviral treatment at Hammersmith Hospital, becoming only the second such case in the world, through a stem cell transplant collaboration with Imperial College London and University College London HIV scientists. |
| 2019 | The Trust performed 38,000 operations and saw 305,000 emergency attendees during the 2019/20 period. |
| 2019 | The trust reported a turnover of £1.3 billion and employed approximately 13,000 people, treating about 1.3 million patients during the 2019/20 financial year. |
| November 2019 | Strike action and protests at St. Mary's Hospital continued, challenging Sodexo's employment practices for support staff. |
| October 2019 | UVW union began strike action and protests at St. Mary's Hospital against Sodexo's employment practices for cleaners, caterers, and porters. |
| June 1 2019 | The Trust initiated a new five-year contract with Falck UK Ambulance Service to provide non-emergency patient transport services, replacing DHL. Falck was expected to complete 330,000 patient journeys in their first year. |
| 2018 | Issued invoices totalling £6.7 million to patients thought to be ineligible for NHS treatment, but only collected £2.4 million. |
| 2018 | Researchers led by Professor George Hanna at St Mary's Hospital discovered a simple breath test capable of detecting pancreatic cancer. |
| 2017 | Predicted a deficit of £25.1 million, with the total backlog maintenance bill rising to £1.3 billion, the largest in the English NHS. |
| March 2017 | The trust was confirmed as one of four additional NHS Global Digital Exemplars, sharing its status with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a 'joint Exemplar'. |
| 2016 | Focused ultrasound was used at Charing Cross Hospital to treat essential tremor without brain surgery, marking a UK first. |
| 2016 | Trust increased private income by 19% from 2014 to 2016, with about 25% of private service patients coming from overseas. |
| 2016 | The trust established a collaborative project with DeepMind to develop clinical mobile applications linked to electronic patient records. |
| September 2016 | Initial announcement of NHS Global Digital Exemplars, with twelve trusts being selected. |
| 2015 | Imperial College Healthcare was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for, with 8,919 full-time equivalent staff and a 3.06% sickness absence rate. |
| 2015 | The trust ended the financial year 2015/16 in a deficit of £47.9 million. |
| 2015 | Imperial College Healthcare became one of the first NHS trusts to introduce a comprehensive public Wi-Fi service, offering free basic internet access for patients, visitors, and staff, with an additional premium service enabling video and audio streaming. |
| July 2015 | Nursing workforce vacancies reached 1/6 of total staff in July 2015. |
| 2014 | Hammersmith Hospital became the first in Europe to use a new heart mapping system to treat patients with complicated heart rhythm disorders. |
| 2014 | The Trust was designated the Genomic Medicine Centre. |
| 2014 | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was one of 26 trusts responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency during the 2014/15 winter period. |
| 2013 | Interventional radiologists at the Trust used the Magellan Robotic System to treat fibroids in a world first. |
| 2012 | Imperial College Healthcare achieved a year-end adjusted surplus of £9.0 million, with a total income of £971.30 million and operating expenses of £939.70 million. |
| December 2011 | Lord Tugendhat was succeeded as Trust chair by Sir Richard Sykes. |
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