Keeping your loved ones close
During your treatment, your relatives and friends may want to stay close to the hospital. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals offer on-site accommodation within very short walks to the main hospital buildings.
Alternatively, your relatives may prefer to stay at one of many hotels or serviced apartments local to the hospital. Many of these hotels offer preferential rates depending on availability and season. Please ask the hotel reservations team quoting Royal Brompton Hospital.
See details of local hotels.
Keeping your loved ones well
While visiting you in hospital, your friends and family can dine with you in your private room from your dedicated private menu. Alternatively, they can enjoy a variety of hot and cold drinks and snacks at the coffee shop located close to main reception at Royal Brompton Hospital or enjoy a meal at the Garden Restaurant on Level 1 which serves lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
At Harefield Hospital, your loved ones can also join you for a meal in your room or enjoy a snack at the friendly Pavilion, run by the League of Friends. If preferred, they can a meal at the Harefield Hospital restaurant, The Hungry Hare.
Your religious and spiritual needs
We understand that though in a foreign country you will continue with your cultural and religious and spiritual practices. At our hospitals we provide a number of facilities and contacts to support your religious needs.
Our multifaith room allows people of all religions and backgrounds a private and quiet place to pray or contemplate. The room is equipped with a variety of religious/spiritual texts, a male/female room divider (if required), prayer mats and a wash basin.
In addition, Royal Brompton Hospital also provides a Christian Chapel, where the story of man’s journey through life is depicted in the specially commissioned stained glass window and altar screen. This chapel provides a quite and tranquil space, away from the wards, for use by all.
Our chaplaincy service is here to support you, your relatives and friends by providing someone who can listen to you in confidentiality and provide support and information. We offer a number of on-site religious representatives which can also be contacted out of normal working hours to meet your individual needs. To make use of this service, simply ask one of the customer service team or your nurse.
The multi-faith room at Harefield Hospital is open as a peaceful and private space for people of all religious and cultural backgrounds and is situated beside the private patients ward.
Dedicated children's services at Royal Brompton Hospital
We provide excellent care to children and babies as private patients, backed up with dedicated children's services.
The children’s inpatient ward, Rose Ward, houses a play room with qualified hospital play specialists. I n addition to normal activities, the specialists can explain to your child through play why they are in hospital and what experiences they may go through during their stay. The specialists can also help distract children during certain procedures
If your child needs to spend a long time with us, then the play specialists will liaise with physiotherapists and occupational therapists to plan a developmental play programme, should you wish them to do so.
Ensuring that your children maintain a sense of normality and continue to develop is important to us.
Our hospital school can provide your child with an excellent standard of educational and developmental support. Any child at Royal Brompton Hospital, whether patient or family member, is welcome to attend the school.
The in-house school, situated on the same level as the private inpatient ward, follows the English curriculum for education. Our qualified teaching professionals teach core academic subjects including English, Mathematics, Science, Information Communication Technology, History, Geography.
The two fully equipped classrooms serve primary and secondary education and have eight personal computers, 14 laptop computers, all with controlled internet access. In addition, the school is equipped with an art and crafts and reading material, photographic equipment and state-of-the-art software.
Children can attend lessons in the classrooms and for those who are unable to attend, the school can teach directly to the child’s bedside using video-conference facilities. Many of the school's facilities lend themselves to the support of those children with special educational needs.
