NUH is the first hospital in Singapore to be accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) in September 2004. Being accredited by JCI is a recognition of NUH’s commitment to provide a high standard of patient care. Patients can now receive greater assurance that they are receiving quality and safe care that meets internationally accepted standards.

NUH’s inpatient facilities include 26 wards, 19 operating theatres, 6 intensive care units, 22 clinical departments, 3 dental and 6 paramedical departments, 4 medical institutes as well as numerous specialist outpatient clinics and specialised service centres. It also has a comprehensive range of services available to meet the growing needs of our patients. In particular, NUH’s strengths lie in cardiac (heart), obstetrics and gynaecology, oncology (cancer), paediatrics (children), ophthalmology (eye), orthopaedic and gastroenterology services. NUH also runs a national liver transplant programme which began in 1990.

Being the only university hospital in Singapore, most of the NUH clinicians also teach at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Their dual roles mean that these clinicians keep abreast of the developments in medical skills and technology as well as participate in such developments through relevant research from which new cures and treatments are then introduced to NUH patients.

Milestones
New Services/Facilities/Programmes:

• Surgical Weight Management Clinic to offer holistic and multi-disciplinary weight management programme
• Rehabilitation Care Service to provide patient assessment, and work with patients, caregivers and other healthcare professionals to set and facilitate achievement of treatment goals
• First Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Clinic to provide long-term follow-up, risk stratification and screening for family members
• Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy service to provide intravenous administration to discharged patients
• Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Centre to provide an extensive range of plastic surgery services
• NUH Renal Centre to provide comprehensive range of outpatient medical treatments
• Asia’s first Hip Resurfacing Procedure
• Asia’s first Middle Ear Implant

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