The UK Royal Family are consumer models for the UK Middle and Upper Middle classes. There are approx 850 ROYAL WARRENT HOLDERS including BOOTS the CHEMIST. Medical practitioners are rewarded for services to the Royal Family by membership in the ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
Hospitals can be elevated by the addition of ROYAL such as ROYAL BROMPTON (Lungs & Heart), ROYAL FREE (first to admit female students), ROYAL London Hosp for INTEGRATED MEDICINE,(originally Royal Homoeopathic), ROYAL LONDON (East End), ROYAL MARSDEN (Cancer) and some community hospitals such as Guildford's Royal Surrey County Hosp.
UK Medicine is an important invisible EXPORT. PRIVATE medicine has been alive & well since the beginning of the NHS in 1947. Teaching hospitals have PRIVATE wards. There are many PRIVATE HOSPITALS including the Royal favourite , the London KING EDWARD VII Hosp for Officers (public accepted - military families pay reduced fees), the famous (1932,) Harley Street, LONDON CLINIC.and the (1975) WELLINGTON HOSP ,(overlooking Lord's Cricket Ground), now owned by Nashville,USA, HCA Holdings Inc which also owns the ALL PRIVATE Harley Street Clinic, Lister Hosp., London Bridge Hosp.,Portland Hosp. (women/children), and the Princess Grace Hosp.
Hopefully the PAPWORTH HOSPITAL doctors who saved the life of Prince Philip will be named by the Palace Press office. This would encourage Medical Travel tourism to the clean air of the village of Papworth Everard., 10 miles West of Cambridge (45 min by train from London). It would also be interesting to the World's medical profession to know what brand of STENT was used.
