King's Health Partners is the Academic Health Sciences centre comprising:
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- King’s College Hospital
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- King’s College London.
Together, we have a vision to create a London-based powerhouse in heart and lung medicine and research, bringing together specialist skills and expertise from all of the organisations involved to create a centre of excellence for current patients and future generations.
The partnership gives us the opportunity to:
- Deliver world-class clinical services from before birth through to old age for common and rare conditions on a local, regional, national and international level, offering new treatments;
- Enable the organisations involved to deliver best practice care in modern facilities, making the best use of NHS estates
- Provide a large-scale service for adults and children with heart and lung conditions, offering outstanding outcomes and sustainable care within a collaborative network;
- Allow the organisations to cement their place at the forefront of UK health research and build strong industry and commercial partnerships; and
- Train the next generation of clinicians and researchers, through extensive education including national and international training.
In February 2021 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. The merger sees the creation of a newly expanded Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, with Royal Brompton and Harefield forming a new Clinical Group within the Trust. Find out more.
People shared their views about improving cardiovascular (heart) and respiratory (lung and breathing) services for patients in London, southern England and nationally at a series of events during January and February 2019.
Since November 2017, we have been working with King’s Health Partners on proposals to change how care and treatment is provided for adults and children with heart and lung disease.
More than 100 patients, carers and representatives of charities attended events held at three hospital sites, with their feedback helping to inform the ongoing development of the partnership’s proposals. They brought a wide range of helpful insights and views to the discussion.
The need to take the views and needs of patients into account when introducing new technology, the importance of consistency of clinical teams during any service re-configuration, and a desire for improved training for GPs in managing patients with cardiac and respiratory conditions, were all highlighted by attendees.
Many raised the importance of emotional support, and patients were keen to get involved with the design of any future new buildings to increase user-friendliness.
A report on the findings from the patient and public engagement activities in January and February, and the partnership's response to those findings are now available to download.
A patient and public reference group has also been set up for the partnership. The group is made up of charities, representatives of patient groups and individual patients, parents and carers, and will continue to advise and inform the partnership as its work progresses.
Would you like to become a patient-carer member of our patient and public reference group or delivery boards?
We are looking for heart and lung patients (adults and young people) and carers to join our committees to make sure the views of patients and the public remain at the centre our partnership’s proposals.
The partnership is committed to involving patients, their families and carers in its work. In January, the partnership established a patient and public reference group, which includes adult and young patients, as well as representatives from national and local charities with an interest in heart and lung care.
We are now looking for a number of heart and lung patients and carers to join the committees listed below. If you would like to become a patient or carer member of any of our committees, please complete and return our lay members' expression of interest form and return it to gst-tr.rbhkhp@nhs.net.
For more information about these roles, please read the role descriptions for each committee:
- Patient and public reference group
- Children's delivery board
- Cardiovascular delivery board
- Respiratory delivery board
Please note, these are voluntary (unpaid) roles. Travel and other reasonable expenses will be paid in accordance with our policy.
Name of committee | Who are we looking for? | How many people? |
|---|---|---|
| Patient and public reference group | Young patient with a heart condition (preferably age 18 – 24) | 1 |
| Representative from a community voluntary sector organisation that supports the interests of black Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups (with link to national charity), with an interest in heart and lung disease | 2 | |
| Children's delivery board | Parent / carer – child (heart) | 1 |
| Parent carer – young patient in transition to adult services (heart or lung) | 1 | |
| 1 | ||
| Young patient (heart) | 1 | |
| Young patient (lung) | 1 | |
| Cardiovascular delivery board | Adult patient | 1 |
| Adult patient (BAME group) | 1 | |
| Respiratory delivery board | Adult patient | 1 |
| Adult patient (BAME group) | 1 |