News
This section gives you the latest news about our work and achievements. It also provides guidance and contact details for media enquiries.
Changes to visiting our hospitals
New temporary arrangements due to high rates of flu and respiratory illnesses
Dieticians Week at King’s
09 June 2021 - To mark #DietitiansWeek, we met with Jess Pholenz-Saw, who told us about her role and why she became a dietitian.
King’s develops a new hybrid model of care for patients
07 June 2021 - Dr Akash Deep, Director of our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, tells us how his team developed a new way of treating patients during the pandemic
Our car parking arrangements at Denmark Hill are changing
04 June 2021 - From Tuesday 8 June, there will be no general public parking on site at King’s College Hospital
CogStack wins an Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care
04 June 2021 - Cogstack is an information retrieval, extraction and natural language processing platform
Throwback Thursday with King’s Volunteer, Sophia!
03 June 2021 - Last year we spoke to Sophia, who shared why she returned to King's as a COVID-19 Response Volunteer.
NHS Sustainability Day of Action
03 June 2021 - Find out more what we're doing at King's
Volunteers’ Week: Jenny’s story
01 June 2021 - This week (1 - 7 June) is #VolunteersWeek, a national campaign to say thanks and acknowledging the contribution of volunteers in the UK
Robert Turner Award for King’s professor
21 May 2021 - Professor Stephanie Amiel has been recognised for her incredible contribution to diabetes research and education by the charity Diabetes UK
HRH Duchess of Cornwall says “thank you” to nurses
21 May 2021 - Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, Royal Patron of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, met NHS staff including King’s nurse Giselle Padmore-Payne
International Clinical Trials Day 2021
20 May 2021 - Celebrating COVID-19 clinical trials and studies on International Clinical Trials Day
COVID-19 patients treated with oxygen therapy at King’s
10 May 2021 - Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical teams across the world have been developing new ways to treat the virus
Local family gives out £10,000 in thank you gifts
22 April 2021 - Georgie Theobald has put a smile on thousands of faces at King’s, after staff helped save the life of her grandmother and her son
Site Chief Executive appointed at King’s College Hospital
22 April 2021 - Julie Lowe will oversee the site leadership team, ensuring services provide optimum patient care, quality, safety and experience
Enhanced COVID-19 testing in Lambeth and Wandsworth
16 April 2021 - People living in, working in or travelling through Lambeth and Wandsworth are asked to take a COVID-19 PCR test.
New diagnostic criteria may reduce liver transplants
14 April 2021 - King’s College Hospital researchers find Micro RNAs are key to identifying outcomes for patients with acute liver failure