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 The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is the public sector's flagship hospital. Established in 1821, the SGH is Singapore's oldest and largest acute tertiary hospital and national referral centre.
Following a major reorganisation of the public healthcare services initiated by the Ministry of Health, SGH came under the management of Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, or SingHealth, when the company was incorporated on 31 March 2000. The SingHealth Group is positioned to serve the eastern sector of Singapore through a cluster of 3 hospitals, 5 specialty centres and 7 polyclinics.
 Together with four specialty centres located within the SGH campus, patients have ready access to more than 30 clinical specialties. The specialty centres include the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), National Heart Centre (NHC), National Cancer Centre (NDC) and National Dental Centre (NDC). SGH also serves as the national referral centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Renal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Pathology and Haematology.
With about 1,500 beds and a pool of over 550 specialists, SGH accounts for about a quarter of the total acute hospital beds in the public sector and about one-fifth of acute beds nationwide. Annually, about 70,000 patients are admitted to our wards, and another 600,000 attended to at our Specialist Outpatient Clinics.
Committed to uphold its slogan "A Tradition of Caring & Excellence", SGH continues to provide the best and yet affordable medical services to its patients. This social mission and humanitarian legacy has been the driving force behind the Hospital's efforts and achievements in Service, Teaching and Research, the "Three Pillars" of SGH.
 SGH has been the seat of medical education since the first medical and nursing schools were established in Singapore in the early 1900s. Many generations of doctors, nurses and para-medical professionals have been nurtured by the Hospital.
With the emergence of specialty departments from the 1960s, the Hospital began to take on a more prominent role in postgraduate medical education and is now the principal training ground for specialists and the first postgraduate teaching hospital.
The SGH Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and the Institute of Advanced Nursing (IAN) and Postgraduate Allied Health Institute (PGAHI) are established within the hospital for the professional training of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
SGH also plays a major role in undergraduate medical teaching and serves as a clinical teaching hospital for student nurses, radiographers and therapists from the Nanyang Polytechnic and medical institutions in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.
Clinical research is also an integral part of our institutional practice and is actively carried out by medical, nursing and paramedical departments, to augment care delivery and teaching. The drive towards consolidating a strong research culture is also motivated by the vision of developing SGH as a regional clinical research hub. The Hospital is well placed to achieve this as it can capitalise on its multi-disciplinary capabilities, depth of specialisation, a large patient base, and its research affiliations with renowned research centres overseas.
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