For the first time, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital is collaborating with other South London hospitals to improve the speed of patient service.
This comes after the News reported last week that eight thousand patients waited more than four hours at King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ emergency departments throughout August, according to NHS data.
Surgeons from the hospital will be working in brand new operating theatres in Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, alongside colleagues from King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
It is the first time the different organisations, particularly Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s and Lewisham and Greenwich Trusts, working through the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, have come together to provide services in this way.
Operations carried out in the new theatres include general surgery and gynaecology specialities, with the potential to carry out as many as 75 procedures a week.
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