The SHOCK app sends an alert to professionals from multiple specialities to join an urgent conference call and discuss treatment options for patients with cardiogenic shock.
Having started at St Bartholomew’s in 2015, the nurse-led service has now extended to Newham and Whipps Cross hospitals and takes on around 400 new patients each year.
We chatted to the team – who call KGV basement at St Bartholomew's their home – about their new Linac machine, which costs more than £1.5 million and will deliver cutting-edge care to around 5,000 cancer patients in its lifetime.
New data, released by the London Ambulance Service, reveals the hospital to have the best survival rate of any in the capital over the past three years.