6 October 2016

The Charity's annual report highlights how it partnered with many in the NHS and beyond to tackle major health and care issues in Lambeth and Southwark.

The Charity partners with many in the NHS and beyond to tackle major health and care issues in Lambeth and Southwark. In the last financial year, it contributed £11.7 million in funding to initiatives addressing heart failure, alcohol misuse and psychosis among others, providing grants to 127 new ideas and supporting many more. 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity supported partners in King's Health Partners directly with £10m in grants and other funding during 2015/16, including for:

  • An innovative local care pathway for people with heart failure which could save up to 80 lives
  • An intensive outreach treatment service for frequent attenders at A&E with alcohol-related problems
  • Pioneering molecular imaging during cancer surgery
  • Improving sexual and reproductive health for people with severe mental illness, learning disability or substance misuse issues

Kieron Boyle, Chief Executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, said:

This past year we continued to work with our partners on new ways of improving the health and care of people in our two local boroughs, backing passionate people who want to do healthcare differently. We have stepped up our support for redesigning health pathways, for accelerating digital health and for playing a more active role in bringing together innovators, communities and decision-makers to share and collaborate.

In that period, partnership-wide projects supported by the Charity also saw important milestones. For example, work as part of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) programme, led to hospital admissions and bed days stabilising across Lambeth and Southwark against a marked increase nationally. It also made patient records available across our three partner Trusts and all GPs across the two boroughs.  

Over the past four years, the Charity has supported the organisations within King’s Health Partners with over £88m. Find out more in the Charity’s online annual report.