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Barts will become a Cancer and Cardiac Centre of Excellence with the bulk of care provided in a new facility. Most of the services currently provided at The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green will also move to Barts. Clinical services at The Royal London, including London’s leading trauma center, the capital’s second biggest children’s hospital and one of Europe’s largest renal units, will be brought together in a new landmark 18-story building. The redevelopment program—Britain’s biggest hospital redevelopment—will transform The Royal London and Barts completely. Construction of the new hospitals will begin in the coming weeks; the new facilities are expected to become fully operational in 2016.

Paul White, chief executive of Barts and The London NHS Trust said: “The redevelopment of Barts Hospital and The Royal London Hospital will deliver world-class medical facilities for the people of East London and beyond. This is an important milestone in the history of our hospitals.”