Bupa Cromwell Hospital opened in 1981, and was acquired by Bupa, the leading global healthcare company in March 2008. Based in west London, in the heart of Kensington & Chelsea, we are a purpose built private hospital with over 120 beds. Our in-house GPs offer primary care, health screening and walk-in family medicine services.
With around 400 top of their field Consultants, many from London’s prestigious teaching hospitals, Bupa Cromwell Hospital offers a range of over 50 specialties. Our major clinical areas are oncology, neurosciences, paediatrics, surgery, supported by a full complement of top of the range diagnostic equipment.
The oncology department has a Gamma Knife Perfexion, two TomoTherapy Hi-Art systems and a PET-CT. The Paediatric Centre has a 14 bed ward with en-suite bathrooms and a dedicated paediatric theatre for both complex and day case procedures.
History Of Bupa Cromwell Hospital
** History and milestones **
Bupa Cromwell Hospital has always prided itself on being at the forefront of installing state of the art equipment therefore providing our patients with the many advantages of the latest technology.
Bupa Cromwell Hospital was the first UK independent hospital to:
Open a Private Radiotherapy Department (1982)
Replace our radiotherapy treatment machines with state-of-the-art linear accelerators featuring multileaf collimators and portal imaging (1994/5)
Install a Gamma Knife for the treatment of benign and secondary brain tumours (1998)
Perform a live related liver transplant (1998)
Open a fully integrated comprehensive Paediatric Centre (2000)
Receive BS EN ISO 9001:2000 Certification in radiotherapy and medical physics for the Quality Management System (2003)
Introduce the Cancer Recovery Programme (2004)
Ofer laparoscopic renal Cryotherapy – a freezing technique for treating kidney cancer less invasively (2004)
Ofer laparoscopic renal Cryotherapy – a freezing technique for treating kidney cancer less invasively (2004)
Offer one-stage prostate Brachytherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer (2005)
Install our first Tomotherapy Hi-ART System®, the world’s most advanced radiotherapy treatment system (2005)
Install a PET-CT scanner (2006)
Install a second Tomotherapy Hi-ART System® (2006)
Install the Gamma Knife Perfexion for the treatment of brain, head and neck lesions (2007)
Offer sentinel node imaging and surgery for breast cancer patients all under one roof (2007)
