Following the merger of Barts and The London NHS Trust and Whipps Cross and Newham university hospital NHS trusts on 1 April 2012, we will now be keeping GPs and other members of our local primary care team up to date with all the latest news and developments via a new regular e-newsletter, Barts Health Bulletin. Read more

Barts and The London NHS Trust apologises to GPs, patients and members of the public who have had difficulties reaching certain extension numbers this week. BT has now rectified the fault, which originated at the weekend, when the Trust's switchboard was moved onto a new system and to a new... Read more

The new Royal London Hospital celebrated its full opening on Thursday 1 March, marking the end of one of the most complex hospital moves ever undertaken, and the culmination of years of hard work and planning. Read more

Barts and The London NHS Trust is one step closer to its merger with Newham and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trusts, following an extensive approval process. Read more

As a result of the ongoing relocation of services into the new Royal London Hospital, a number of short-term temporary service closures will be needed on the days the moves take place. Please note the following two closures: Read more

The Clinical Biochemistry Department has reviewed its telephone action limits for markedly abnormal biochemistry results in adults and paediatrics, in order to reduce the number of unnecessary calls to its users. These changes will align Barts and The London with the Royal College of Pathologists recommendations for out of hours reporting... Read more

In line with feedback from GPs and patients, we are making some improvements to the Barts and The London Orthopaedic Spinal Service. A new integrated service combining the two separate services that previously provided non-surgical lower back pain care has been devised and will come into effect from February this year. Read more

Barts and The London Consultant Oncologist Dr Thomas Powles has urged thousands of Britons to make a New Year’s resolution they can actually keep and visit their GP in 2012, as part of the ‘small c’ campaign to boost cancer survival rates. Read more

You will shortly be receiving an email with a link through to an online survey. The survey, which will take no more than 10 minutes to complete, is being conducted on behalf of the Board of Barts and The London NHS Trust, and will ask for your views on how we... Read more

A new How to refer to us page has been developed on the ‘For clinicians’ section of the Barts and The London website, to provide clear directions for clinicians on how to refer patients to services at the Trust. Read more

Our programme to transform the experience of patients attending outpatient appointments in our hospitals continues to make good progress, with many tangible improvements in place and more expected in the coming months. Read more

In December 2011, we moved a step closer to becoming one trust with Newham and Whipps Cross university NHS trusts, when our three trust boards, two commissioning clusters (NHS East London and The City and NHS Outer North East London) and NHS London independently approved the Full Business Case (FBC)... Read more

Moves into the new state-of-the-art hospital at The Royal London continued over the Christmas and New Year period. Read more

If you need non-urgent clinical advice and guidance from Barts and The London specialties, you can get this either via Choose and Book or more commonly via the new nhs.net email addresses set up by most Trust specialties in recent months. Read more

Two linked clinical studies that will show whether stem cell therapy can save the lives of heart attack patients are now underway in London, following the award of €11.7 million funding from the European Commission. Read more

A number of newspapers carried articles about orthopaedic surgery services at The Royal London Hospital earlier this month. This followed an item on BBC London News, relating to a leaked email correspondence which included comments by a number of Trust surgeons and others, which might have caused concern to staff,... Read more

The first moves into the new state-of-the-art hospital at The Royal London got underway on Tuesday 6 December and will continue through February. Read more

The new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) report, published this month by the NHS Information Centre, shows that Barts and The London has the second-lowest rate of patient deaths – a significant indicator of high standards of patient safety. Read more

Over the past two weeks, the Full Business Case (FBC) for the proposed merger of Barts and The London, Newham and Whipps Cross has now been independently approved by the three trust boards, the commissioning clusters – NHS East London and The City and NHS Outer North East London –... Read more

An up-to-date list of services directly bookable through Choose and Book is available on the Choose and Book section of the Trust website. Read more