National University Hospital

Capacity: 1,239 beds.

National University Hospital is a multidisciplinary clinic and primary referral center with over 50 medical, surgical and dental specialties offering a full range of care for adults, women and children. It is the only public hospital in Singapore offering a pediatric kidney and liver transplant program for children, in addition to kidney, liver and pancreas transplant for adults.

As a member of the National Health System, National University Hospital is the primary teaching clinic of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the NUS Faculty of Dentistry.

The clinic employs 7808 people and has 32 operating rooms.

National University Hospital was opened on June 24, 1985 as the first reorganized hospital in Singapore. The hospital serves over a million patients annually. As an academic medical institution, patient safety and good clinical outcomes are the focus of the clinic.

National University Hospital also plays a key role in the training of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and other healthcare professionals. Translational research is key to the clinic's tripartite focus and is paving the way for new treatments and therapies.

National University Hospital is an integrated academic health system and regional health system in Singapore that provides an innovative and sustainable healthcare system.

Throughout the history of the medical institutions that make up National University Hospital, teams of employees have worked together across the healthcare system to advance the mission of achieving clinical excellence, developing the next generation of healthcare professionals, and changing the natural history of chronic disease through research.

The clinic uses its position as a member of the academic healthcare system to leverage the wealth of resources housed at the National University of Singapore. Through collaboration with National University Hospital faculties, the clinic's physicians can use their academic, research and creative capabilities to develop solutions for existing and emerging patient and healthcare needs of the entire population of Singapore.