PUBLISHED: 11:45 18 October 2018 | UPDATED: 11:58 18 October 2018 Harry Taylor The Royal Free Charity celebrated the "bottoming out" of the new Pears UCL building on the site by burying a time capsule, to be opened in 100 years. Items inside included a copy of last week's Ham&High newspaper along with artwork by patients who attend the onsite Royal Free School, and personal notes of hope for the next 100 years. Front row from left Sir David Sloman CEO of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free School student Anabelle Prin (15) holding artworks, Professor Hans Stauss Head of Clinicl Immunology, student Toby Driskell-Poole (15) holding lid of the time capsule, Chris Burghes CE of the Royal Free Charity, and in uniform, Sarita Workman, specialist sister in immunology research at the Royal Free, puts in a copy of the Ham&High. Picture: Polly Hancock Archant They say today’s newspapers are tomorrow’s chip paper. The Royal Free … [Read more...] about Royal Free Hospital buries time capsule to mark the ‘bottoming out’ of the Pears Building
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Backlash in Hampstead over reports Royal Free Hospital plans to sell off Queen Mary’s House for luxury flats
PUBLISHED: 10:43 19 May 2018 | UPDATED: 10:50 19 May 2018 Emily Banks Queen Marys Hospital Archant Hampstead campaigners have hit out at plans by the Royal Free Hospital to sell of Queen Mary’s House in Heath Street to developers to turn into a new high end luxury estate with 162 luxury flats. Queen Marys Hospital Although the hospital has not put the site, currently providing affordable accommodation for key NHS workers, on the open market or published its plans, estate agents told The Guardian that they have been called in to market the site by Whitestone Pond privately to top end developers and interested parties on the quiet. The hospital has set up a password-restricted website to promote the 100-year-old former hospital Queen Mary’s House via a password-restricted website as “Hampstead Garden - a rare opportunity to create one of the most desirable new-build schemes in London.”, The Guardian reports. Janine Griffis who chairs The Hampsead … [Read more...] about Backlash in Hampstead over reports Royal Free Hospital plans to sell off Queen Mary’s House for luxury flats
Royal Free to look for new site for Rowland Hill plaque
PUBLISHED: 14:15 10 May 2018 | UPDATED: 14:15 10 May 2018 Harry Taylor The plaque to revolutionary postal reformer, Sir Rowland Hill, which was previously fixed to the car park outside the Royal Free hospital Archant The Royal Free Charity has said it is looking into a new site for the plaque in honour of a historic Hampstead resident who helped revolutionise the postal system. The memorial to Kidderminster-born Sir Rowland Hill was previously fixed to a wall on the Royal Free car park opposite Hampstead Hill School. The car park has now been torn down to make way for the Pears Building, which is currently being built. However campaigners had raised concerns about what had happened to the plaque, and whether it would be kept as part of the new building. Sir Rowland invented the Penny Post stamp, which helped pave the way for the postal service we have today. A spokeswoman said: “The plaque to Sir Rowland Hill was embedded into the brickwork of the car park and has safely … [Read more...] about Royal Free to look for new site for Rowland Hill plaque
Gender pay gap: Women earn 17 per cent less than men at Royal Free Hospital
PUBLISHED: 15:44 05 April 2018 | UPDATED: 15:51 05 April 2018 Emily Banks The gender pay gap at the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, has been revealed. Picture: PA NEWS PA Wire/Press Association Images Women working at the Royal Free Hospital, in Hampstead, are earning 17.7 per cent less per hour than men, figures have revealed. Men at the hospital also receive higher bonuses than women who recieve on average 22.1pc less. At the Whittington Hospital in Highgate woman are earning 10.6pc per hour less than men with male workers more likely to receive a bonus than women. All organisations who employ more than 250 people had to report their gender pay gap, the difference between the average hourly rate they pay men and female eomployees, to the government by March 31. Employers have also had to publish the gender split of their employees in four broad pay bands, as a large gender pay gap is sometimes explained by fewer women at the top end of the pay scale. However, the … [Read more...] about Gender pay gap: Women earn 17 per cent less than men at Royal Free Hospital
Ham&High letters: Royal Free, anti-semitism, student takeover, developers, bus cuts, indie bookshops, green spaces, police, tube noise and libraries
PUBLISHED: 08:00 31 March 2018 The Royal Free Hospital. Picture: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/PA WIRE PA Wire/Press Association Images Letters, contributions and comments sent in from Ham&High readers this week. Project is increasing dangerous traffic Jeff Gold, chairman, Hampstead Green Neighbourhood Group, writes: The Royal Free Hospital commenced its new building project in Pond Street a couple of weeks ago. It immediately closed the slip road to the former car park and ever since there has been considerably more tail backs and congestion in Pond Street as well as difficulty and danger for pedestrians at the crossing point of Royal Free Hospital and Pond Street which is made worse by the removal of a zebra crossing by the council. Congestion is one thing and it is even worse when ambulances trying to reach the hospital are delayed but danger to pedestrians is another and this is an accident waiting to happen – there have already been near misses. All that is needed is better … [Read more...] about Ham&High letters: Royal Free, anti-semitism, student takeover, developers, bus cuts, indie bookshops, green spaces, police, tube noise and libraries