Harefield Hospital

Harefield Hospital is located in Harefield, within the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is part of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, which describes itself as "the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe". Harefield's sister hospital is the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. The hospital grounds include tennis courts (no longer in use) and a helipad. The present hospital was opened on 8 October 1937 by the Duke of Gloucester, with many of the wards featuring large open areas to give patients access to the fresh air. The hospital's most famous physician was Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, who performed the world's first heart lung transplant at Harefield in 1983. Under the...