Research at King’s

At King’s, we pride ourselves on developing new treatments and groundbreaking surgical techniques, to help improve patient care.

How does research help King’s patients?

Research means turning promising ideas or interesting theories into real benefits for King’s patients and members of the local community.

King’s currently has more than 500 research projects running, ranging from testing new surgical devices or drugs, to studies aimed at helping us to improve our understanding of mental health issues.

However, research projects cannot get started without the participation of one key group of people: our patients. We rely on the patients we treat to volunteer and take part in research projects. This is good for the Trust (we get to see how new treatments work in practice) and it is exciting for our patients (they benefit from groundbreaking treatments earlier than they would otherwise).

Our five year strategy

Alongside our partners, we are ideally placed to support the UK Government’s vision to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research and innovation, as outlined in their 2017 Industrial Strategy. In April 2019, we launched our Research and Innovation Five Year Strategy, which outlines our three key aims and strategic objectives which will enable us to achieve this goal.

We have published yearly progress reports about our achievements within each aim:

Find out more about our recent successful health research projects and how you can get involved as a patient.