This clinical group provides care for women, babies, children, young people and families across all 5 main hospital sites, and community services. It also provides specialist services to patients across London, the South East of England, nationally, and internationally.

We host the South Thames Retrieval Service, South Thames Paediatric Network, London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, the Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease Network and contribute to other networks within the south east London maternity and neonatal system.

We are one of 10 comprehensive children’s hospitals in the UK, and the second largest provider of children’s services in London.

To realise our vision of delivering excellent care and healthier lives for babies, women, children and young people, we will focus on 6 strategic priorities:

providing the highest quality specialist women’s and children’s services, and working closely with network hospitals across the South East to bring care closer to home

striving to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by taking a proactive role in population health

providing seamless care, further improving the joined- up services in our hospital and community services and developing more integrated care for patients

being an outstanding, inclusive place to work, where our people feel valued and supported to develop their careers through our education and training

ensuring all patients and colleagues have the opportunity to participate in leading-edge research

deliver the patient benefits of our ‘life-course’ approach, supporting people throughout their lifetimes, from pre-conception, pregnancy and birth through to an individualised transition to adult services, across different phases of their lives and to starting their own families.

Comprehensive care across the life-course

We have grown our services over the past decade aiming to offer women and children all the care they need, across their full life-course.

We are proud of our capacity to deliver care across a broad spectrum of clinical settings including community services, urgent and emergency care, and hospital care, including internationally-recognised tertiary and quaternary specialties.

Cancer services

Our work to deliver very specialist children’s cancer services in the coming years will further build on our capabilities and strengthen our position as a truly comprehensive specialist healthcare provider at scale.

Working alongside colleagues in the Cancer and Surgery Clinical Group, we will consolidate the Trust’s position as a leading cancer centre for patients of all ages.

Research

Our world-leading clinical research improves the treatment of illness and disease in women and children. With our links to King’s College London and Imperial College London we are consistently one of the top 5 paediatric research centres in England. And our research into the assessment, prevention and management of pre-term birth, and finding a prenatal cure for sickle cell disorder are world leading.

We will strengthen our position at the forefront of clinical research by focusing on advanced therapies, neuromodulation and advanced imaging, whilst growing our women’s health research portfolio across maternal medicine, advancing endometriosis imaging and management, and leading in early pregnancy research.

Pioneering treatments for paediatric disease

We are at the forefront of innovative paediatric care at both our Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital. In recent years, our teams have taken a leading role in the development of game changing treatments that have transformed the lives of children and their families. We have world-leading expertise in the treatment of fetal and paediatric cardiac conditions, as well as paediatric respiratory, with close ties to the National Heart and Lung Institute.

Building on our experience of delivering revolutionary gene therapies, we will continue to ensure that we provide access to the most effective and innovative treatments to meet our patients’ needs.

A leading centre for women’s health

We provide nationally-leading services in maternal, reproductive and fetal health, which are growing in response to rising demand and complexity driven by changing demography and improved understanding of health equity.

Our expert clinicians lead maternal medicine pathways across London and the south east, including pre- eclampsia, maternity cardiac and national extra- corporeal oxygenation (ECMO) services. Our community midwifery models have reduced local inequities in access and outcomes.

Our world-leading research includes the links between sickle cell disorder and pregnancy and maternal medicine; and our gynaecology team is advancing endometriosis imaging and medical management, and also leading work looking at early pregnancy.

The uniquely close links between our women’s and paediatric and neonatal specialties, and our outstanding research performance, form the basis of our continuing development as a leading centre for maternal and fetal medicine. The integration of services at Royal Brompton Hospital with those at Evelina London and St Thomas’ will provide new opportunities, including in fetal and maternal cardiac diseases, and also genetic respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis.