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King’s Chief Executive Clive Kay announces retirement from role
Professor Kay to retire in summer 2026
Happy birthday NHS
05 July 2021 - As the NHS marks its 73rd birthday on Monday 5th July, Charlane tells us about her own birthday celebrations
Man whose heart stopped for three hours makes full recovery
25 June 2021 - Patient flown to King’s College Hospital for life-saving ‘blood warming’ treatment after being submerged in near-freezing waters
Global Day of Recognition for MND/ALS
21 June 2021 - Today (21/06/21) is Global Day of Recognition for MND/ALS.
World Blood Donor Day at King’s
14 June 2021 - On World Blood Donor Day, we spoke to Kelly, a Patient Blood Manager at King's
King’s nurse gives 11-year-old Mango a new home
11 June 2021 - Rescue cat Mango has been rehomed after his previous owner passed away
King’s Professor named UK expert
10 June 2021 - Professor Tim Jackson has been ranked a leading expert in wet age-related macular degeneration
Dieticians Week at King’s
09 June 2021 - To mark #DietitiansWeek, we met with Jess Pholenz-Saw, who told us about her role and why she became a dietitian.
King’s develops a new hybrid model of care for patients
07 June 2021 - Dr Akash Deep, Director of our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, tells us how his team developed a new way of treating patients during the pandemic
Our car parking arrangements at Denmark Hill are changing
04 June 2021 - From Tuesday 8 June, there will be no general public parking on site at King’s College Hospital
CogStack wins an Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care
04 June 2021 - Cogstack is an information retrieval, extraction and natural language processing platform
Throwback Thursday with King’s Volunteer, Sophia!
03 June 2021 - Last year we spoke to Sophia, who shared why she returned to King's as a COVID-19 Response Volunteer.
NHS Sustainability Day of Action
03 June 2021 - Find out more what we're doing at King's
Volunteers’ Week: Jenny’s story
01 June 2021 - This week (1 - 7 June) is #VolunteersWeek, a national campaign to say thanks and acknowledging the contribution of volunteers in the UK
Robert Turner Award for King’s professor
21 May 2021 - Professor Stephanie Amiel has been recognised for her incredible contribution to diabetes research and education by the charity Diabetes UK
HRH Duchess of Cornwall says “thank you” to nurses
21 May 2021 - Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, Royal Patron of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, met NHS staff including King’s nurse Giselle Padmore-Payne