University College Hospital is a teaching hospital in London, part of the University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust, and associated with University College London.

It was founded in 1834, eight years after UCL, as the North London Hospital. The first major operation under ether in Europe was conducted at University College Hospital by Robert Liston in 1846. It was split from UCL in 1905, and a new building (designed by Alfred Waterhouse), known as the Cruciform building, was opened in 1906, which survives to the present day.

It took over the National Dental Hospital in 1914, the Royal Ear Hospital in 1920 and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in 1998. A major new hospital building, pictured to the right, opened in 2005.

See also

• List of hospitals in the UK

External links

• About UCH
• History of the Cruciform building

NHS hospitals | University College London | Camden | Hospitals in London | Teaching hospitals | 1834 establishments

University College Hospital | University College Hospital