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• Innovation

Guy's and St Thomas' is one of the UK's leading NHS foundation trusts. Our spirit of innovation as well as our strong and successful leadership is widely recognised.

Our Trust is made up of two of London's best known teaching hospitals – St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital – and London's two specialist heart and lung hospitals, Royal Brompton and Harefield. It also includes Evelina London Children's Hospital and both adult and children’s community services in Lambeth and Southwark.

We lead many clinical networks and our specialist services serve a wide catchment area across south east England and beyond through outreach clinics and dedicated centres, often delivered in collaboration with NHS or commercial partners.

We play our part as a system leader locally in south east London and further afield. We have a positive reputation for sharing management skills, best practice and new ideas with other NHS organisations and through our commercial activities.

• Pioneering research

  Our reputation for pioneering research is a source of pride. We are delighted to be ranked top in England for the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top ten for the number of patients recruited to research. This focus on research gives our patients access to the latest treatments as well as opportunities to improve care for future generations. 

  We are part of King's Health Partners, one of only eight academic health science centres in England, and our National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre leads the way in translational research and innovation. 

  Find out more

  For more information about our research activities see:

  • Research at Guy's and St Thomas'
  • King's Health Partners
  • Evelina London Children's Hospital
  • Research at Royal Brompton and Harefield.

• Working in partnership

  The Trust has a long tradition of working with partners, both locally and further afield, sharing clinical knowledge and management expertise.

  As a provider of specialist services we are a key partner in many clinical networks that span a range of specialities. These include children's, cardiovascular, kidney and cancer services. We are a regional genetics centre and are actively involved in the national 100,000 Genomes Project. We are delighted to host the national Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult which is co-located with our NIHR Biomedical Research centre at Guy's Hospital.

  Delivering care in innovative ways

  Our aim is to deliver care in innovative ways, centralising where necessary while offering care closer to home where possible. New dialysis services including radiotherapy and chemotherapy at Sidcup, and services for complex respiratory patients in Surrey highlight our work with both NHS and commercial partners.

  Since welcoming community health services into the Trust in 2011, we have benefited from new opportunities to engage in creative partnerships beyond our hospitals, working with primary and social care colleagues as well as third sector organisations and local people. 

  In February 2021, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals became part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise and research in heart and lung disease.

• National leader for staff engagement

  As well as putting patients at the heart of everything we do, we work hard to ensure that staff at all levels have the skills and support needed to improve efficiency and effectiveness within their services. We place great importance on staff engagement as well as training and development.

  Guy's and St Thomas' achieved the highest engagement score of all combined acute and community trusts in the latest national NHS Staff Survey.

  • 88% of our staff are happy with the standard of care provided by the Trust.
  • 78% would recommend the Trust as a place to work – higher than the national average of 64%.

  See What our staff think about working here.

• Commercial services

  We are engaged in a wide range of commercial ventures that support the work of the Trust, enabling us to innovate and also to generate income that is reinvested in services for NHS patients.

  Our commercial services team oversees a broad portfolio that includes:

  • private patient services
  • private sector partnerships
  • new technology and innovation
  • education and events
  • international partnerships and consultancy support. 

  Guy's and St Thomas' Consulting

  Guy's and St Thomas' Consulting offers support to drive performance improvement and change programmes, strategic planning, research and education. Management consultancy is available in the UK and internationally covering a wide range of healthcare-related disciplines from procurement and HR services to clinical pathway redesign, governance and regulatory systems.

  ETL (Essentia Trading Limited)

  ETL is a unique multidisciplinary consultancy that enables public and private sector organisations to transform their environments.

  Formed in 2014 by Guy’s and St Thomas’, ETL re-invest profits within the Trust. Comprising of 80 experts, ETL has offices in London and Oxfordshire. It also has staff based in Cambridge, East Anglia, Manchester and Dublin.

  ETL provides infrastructure advisory services in healthcare, higher education, science and research sectors across capital development, cost management, project and programme management, property consultancy, health strategy and planning and sustainability.

  For more information visit ETL website.

  Contact us

  For more information about how we can work with you for the benefit of patients, please contact us.

  Commercial Services

  Victoria Cheston
  Commercial Director
  Email: victoria.cheston@gstt.nhs.uk
  Commercial Services website

  ETL (Essential Trading Limited)

  ETL (Essentia Trading Limited) website