Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Department of Orthopaedics - Foot & Ankle Fellowship Program

London, United Kingdom

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. It provides 2.4 million patient contacts in acute and specialist hospital services and community services every year. As one of the leading NHS trusts in the UK, with an annual turnover of almost £1.5 billion, it employs around 16,200 staff.

Thomas Addison, Thomas Hodgkin, Richard Bright and Alfred Poland are among a number of other eminent physicians and surgeons who worked at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. In 1860, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital. For a brief history of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) hospital please click here.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a collaboration between King’s College London (KCL), Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. King’s is the largest centre for the education of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals in Europe. Within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, the King’s College London GKT School of Medical Education is responsible for the education and training of medical students.

The Department of Orthopaedics of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of London's leading orthopaedic departments and a centre of excellence, offering the full range of specialist Orthopaedic services. The Department of Orthopaedics is also a member of the Specialist Orthopaedic Alliance.

In the Department of Orthopaedics we perform around 1500 foot and ankle operations annually. These are the whole spectrum of forefoot, hind-foot and ankle surgeries. We perform an above average number of hind-foot reconstructions for inflammatory, Neurological, haematological or hereditary deformities as well as total ankle replacements and revision total ankle replacements using custom implants. Research opportunities are also available for fellows.

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