St Mark’s moves to new home
St Mark’s Bowel Hospital celebrated the move to its new home at Central Middlesex by announcing it has carried out 7,000 operations since 2020 without one cancellation.
It is the fifth time that the hospital has moved since its founder Frederick Salmon opened The Infirmary for the Relief of the Poor Afflicted with Fistula and other Diseases of the Rectum in 1835.
Omar Faiz said: “St Marks can only do this successfully because the staff rather than the buildings are the backbone of the organisation.”
The hospital’s commitment to its patients - who come from all over the UK to get the best treatment - is reflected in its ranking as the 14th best specialist bowel hospital in the world in a poll organised by Newsweek.
MP Dawn Butler was among the dignitaries who welcomed St Mark’s to its new home after the pandemic highlighted the need for it to be located on a site that didn’t house an A&E unit to minimise potential disruption to elective surgery.
Professor Faiz said a ‘bright new future had been forged’ and that the move mutually benefitted Northwick Park as it gained much needed bed and office space.