ABSTRACT
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, whose Medical School is a constituent college of the University of London, comprises a large prestigious National Health Service teaching hospital in the City of London and a sister hospital, Bart’s Homerton, sited in Hackney in the East End of London. The joint hospitals service the very large commuting population of the City, about 350,000 people from shop assistants to bankers, a local community of about 100,000, and the population of Hackney, the most economically deprived borough in the UK, with a population approaching 200,000.
