News from St Bartholomew's

Dr Nay Aung, a specialist registrar at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, has been awarded the Royal Society of Medicine President’s prize for best cardiology PhD project.

A team of traditional blacksmiths have donated a rainbow bench to St Bartholomew Hospital’s historic square, helping to keep their craftsmanship alive during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

A picture of two pharmacy technicians from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, taken by their colleague, has been shortlisted in a high profile art exhibition from the Duchess of Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery.

An immunotherapy drug called ‘avelumab’ has been shown to significantly improve survival in patients with the most common type of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III clinical trial led by Barts Health and Queen Mary University of London.

Barts Health NHS Trust has the best surgical resection rates for lung cancer in the country, indicating that more patients at St Bartholomew’s Hospital are having life-saving surgery to cure their cancer than anywhere else, according to a new report.