News
This section gives you the latest news about our work and achievements. It also provides guidance and contacts if you have a media enquiry or filming request.
Visit our events page to find out what's going on in and around our hospitals and community services.
Keep up to date with all the latest news from the Trust with e-GiST, our email newsletter.
Filtered by published date: April 2016

New app will help recognise inherited cancer
Friday 29 April 2016
A pioneering new app will allow healthcare professionals to identify people at risk of inherited cancer and refer them for potentially lifesaving specialist treatment.

Going to Guy's Hospital?
Thursday 28 April 2016
Closures of Tooley Street may affect patients, staff and visitors to Guy's from this weekend until February 2018. The closures will allow the Thamesli

Grateful family's fundraising 'thank you' for intensive care team
Thursday 28 April 2016
The family of a patient who received lifesaving intensive care have raised £23,000 for Guy's and St Thomas'.

Homelessness nurses make photo prize shortlist
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Two nurses working with London's most vulnerable people have had their photographs shortlisted for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Care on Camera Award.

Patients play key role in improving fibroids information
Friday 22 April 2016
Patients across Southwark and Lambeth have successfully worked with Guy's and St Thomas' to generate a new patient information booklet and video about fibroids.

Junior doctors' industrial action 26 and 27 April
Friday 22 April 2016
Junior doctors to take all-out strike action (no emergency cover) – 8am-5pm Tuesday 26 April and Wednesday 27 April.

Council of Governors elections – candidates announced
Thursday 21 April 2016
The nominations stage of the 2016 elections to the Council of Governors closed on Tuesday 19 April. We received a total of 32 nominations.

Guy's and St Thomas' shortlisted for national quality award
Wednesday 20 April 2016
Guy's and St Thomas' is one of just five NHS organisations in the running to win this prestigious national award for excellence in high quality patient care.

Guy's Cancer Centre construction completed
Tuesday 19 April 2016
A major milestone in the development of our new £160 million Cancer Centre at Guy's Hospital has been reached following the completion of construction.
The 14-storey building was handed over by main contractors Laing O'Rourke to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust on Monday 18 April.
The 14-storey building was handed over by main contractors Laing O'Rourke to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust on Monday 18 April.

Celebrate Shakespeare at St Thomas'
Monday 18 April 2016
Over the weekend of 23-24 April, the garden of St Thomas' Hospital and other locations along the South Bank will host a celebration of Shakespeare to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.