News from St Bartholomew's

Reverend Dr Evan McWilliams has been appointed as the new hospitaller and chaplain for St Bartholomew’s Hospital, splitting his role between the hospital and the parish church.

Barts Health patients who have been ill with Covid-19 will be helped to recover with a package of extra therapy as well as support from a smartphone app.

Congratulations to Ana Lopez-Marco who has been appointed as the first permanent female consultant cardiac surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

After suffering a cardiac arrest during his country’s Euro 2020 match against Finland in June, Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Find out more about this life saving treatment carried out at Barts Heart Centre.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital has become only the second hospital in the UK to be awarded centre of excellence status by an international body that represents people with certain rare tumours.