A London medical school is merging with one of the capital’s universities in a bid to create “one world-class institution”.
St George’s, University of London will join forces with City, University of London in August this year, hoping to become a “health powerhouse” by combining the pair’s relevant areas of expertise. The union will also bring “significant advantages in terms of scale, reach, capability, and resilience”, the institutions said.
Subject to regulatory approvals the new provider will be called City St George’s, University of London, and will be led by Sir Anthony Finkelstein, the current president of City. Most current St George’s staff will join researchers from City’s School of Health and Psychological Sciences to form a larger school of health, medicine, and psychological sciences.
The strategic case for the merger was agreed by both university councils early in 2023 and the latest announcement ends a search by St George’s for a partner that extended more than 15 years. The Tooting-based medical school’s previous plan to merge with Royal Holloway, University of London collapsed at the end of 2021, and those talks were themselves a revival of lengthy negotiations that had ended without success in 2009.
