Our blog series takes an in-depth look at the work that goes on in our hospitals. From theatre nurses and psychologists to our chaplaincy service and catering team, we go behind the scenes with the people involved to learn about what they do.
Scanning the horizon
A diagnostic and interventional radiologist illustrates the power of imaging in helping to solve the body’s puzzles.
Thank you for the music
How the hospitals’ Arts team uses music to help patients with their recovery.
The power of communication
We step into the world of the speech and language therapist, a vital role which supports patients with communication, eating and swallowing difficulties.
A word about circulation
A look inside one of the UK’s busiest vascular services which triages up to 80 patients a day.
Lightening the load
A hospital porter shares how his work has kept him engaged and inspired for over 20 years.
On the ward with a sleep expert
Trailing the footsteps of a sleep expert, we discover how sleep studies try to get to the root of sleep issues.
The Heart Detective
We meet ‘the heart detective’, an interventional cardiologist trying to crack difficult-to-cure heart pain.
The whole patient
We spend a shift with a Senior House Officer who is covering patients with lung cancer.
Reaching out
An outreach nurse shares what it takes to deliver care for patients in their homes.
A lifetime of service
How one staff member’s spontaneous job application at the hospital turned into 40 years of service.
Beating time
Behind the scenes of St Thomas’ Cardiac Care Unit where the team are tending to a patient with a fast and irregular heartbeat.
Nursing trials to save lives
How the research nursing team manages clinical trials of new drugs aimed at preventing heart conditions.
The CF family
What happens at a multi-disciplinary team meeting for cystic fibrosis patients.
Thought for food
A respiratory dietitian takes us through her typical day guiding patients at risk of malnutrition.
Psychological impact
Inside the therapy room with a clinical psychologist and a patient with a congenital heart condition.
The key to everything
We meet the man who holds the key to every door in the hospital.
Patient safety first
We join a quality improvement and patient safety manager to learn how they respond to and tackle patient safety incidents.
Time for patience
A parish vicar turned hospital chaplain takes us on one of his visits around patient wards.
Heart ops through a tube
The cath lab team carry out a minimally invasive heart procedure on a patient who had previously suffered a heart attack.
The belly of the hospital
The catering team’s secret ingredient to delivering award-winning meals.
A shift with theatre nurses
Inside the operating room with the theatre nursing team.
Watching open heart surgery
A surgeon and his team carry out a triple bypass.