How we are organised
King’s is one of the country’s biggest and busiest NHS Foundation Trusts. We are a provider of local services, a centre for specialist care, and a teaching hospital.
Our structure
Our Corporate Structure (pdf) shows how our departments are organised. It ensures there is a strong clinical voice at the heart of all the decisions we make, with clear responsibilities and accountability for all those in leadership roles at the Trust.
It also supports close working between teams to ensure we are making the very best use of our resources, for the benefit of our patients, and the communities we serve.
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The responsibilities of the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors are set out in the Trust Constitution.
Leading our hospital services
We have three Clinical Divisions, each of which is led by a doctor (known as a Divisional Chief). All are part of the King’s Executive team, so ensuring there is a strong clinical voice at a very senior level within the organisation.
The Divisional Chiefs work closely with a Director of Operations and a Director of Nursing. The three Divisions, and the Care Groups or Trust-wide services they have overall responsibility for, are set out below:
Division A
- Cancer Services
- Child Health
- Dental
- Haematology
- Medical Engineering and Physics
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Radiology
- Therapies, Rehabilitation and Integrated Care Services
- Women’s Health
Division B
- Acute Specialty Medicine (King’s College Hospital)
- Emergency Medicine (King’s College Hospital)
- Integrated Medicine (Princess Royal University Hospital)
- Liver, Gastroenterology, Upper GI, Endoscopy (King’s College Hospital)
- Planned Medicine (King’s College Hospital)
- Renal and Urology
- Specialty Medicine and Endoscopy (Princess Royal University Hospital)
Division C
- Cardiovascular Services
- Critical Care
- Major Trauma Network
- Neurosciences
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Surgery (King’s College Hospita)
- Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthetics (Princess Royal University Hospital)
- Theatres and Anaesthetics (King’s College Hospital)
We also have Hospital Directors for our King’s College Hospital Site and Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites, who work closely with our Clinical Divisions.