page_title: Royal Brompton Hospital
section_title: Later developments
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Brompton Hospital / History / Later developments
caption_attribution_description: English: The Fulham Wing at the Royal Brompton Hospital on Fulham Road. Inscribed above the door "South Block", surrounding "Brompton Hospital", recalls when the old building across the road was the main block of the hospital. Today, the Fulham Wing is the northernmost wing of the hospital.
context_page_description: Royal Brompton Hospital is the largest specialist heart and lung medical centre in the United Kingdom. It is managed by Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust which also manages Harefield Hospital near Uxbridge.
context_section_description: The Royal Brompton Hospital was extensively damaged by German bombing during the Second World War; it joined the National Health Service in 1948. A major research centre was created for the hospital on a site formerly occupied by St Wilfred's Convent in Cale Street in 1985.
  The Brompton Fountain was established as a registered charity in 2005 to support paediatric patients of the hospital and their families.
  The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) established a Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit at Royal Brompton Hospital in July 2010 and a Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit there in November 2010. Then, in November 2011, the Royal Brompton Hospital was named as one of only five hospitals in the country that will offer extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to adults in an initiative that positions England as one of the leading countries in the world for the provision of this treatment.
caption: Fulham Wing
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