Barts Thorax Centre
At the Barts Thorax Centre, we place the patient at the heart of what we do. In many hospitals, patients travel between different specialists, from respiratory physicians to thoracic surgeons to oncologists.
We bring all the specialists in chest conditions under one roof, so that you are looked after by the whole chest team rather than just your specialists.
We have respiratory physicians, thoracic surgeons and thoracic oncologists, who are leaders in their field, supported behind the scenes with our specialist thoracic pathologists and radiologists. This way we ensure you get the best opinion at all times.
Our services
We offer assessment and treatment of the full range of conditions of the chest, from lung conditions to airway conditions and chest wall conditions. All our wards and clinics are multidisciplinary and a specialist opinion is never far away. By working closely together, we make sure your care is coordinated, and if needed, your care moves seamlessly between the different specialists.
We share our home with Barts Heart Centre, a world-renowned cardiovascular centre and the largest in Europe. Our heart doctors work very closely with the thorax centre team. If you require assessment or treatment of your heart condition whilst with us, this can be arranged quickly and easily without needing to travel to another hospital, reducing the wait, inconvenience and delay to your treatment.
Our facilities
We have state-of-the art equipment and technology. We are the regional Cyberknife treatment centre and the only centre in the UK with a dedicated Da Vinci Xi robot (the most advanced robot) dedicated to thoracic surgery operations.
We are one of the only centres in the world performing cancer treatment with navigation bronchoscopy and a regional mesothelioma centre offering radical surgery for mesothelioma under the MARS-2 trial.
We have a hybrid theatre dedicated to cardiothoracic surgery and an active intraoperative localisation programme developing ways to find and treat small, very early lung cancers, before they spread.
We have a very active research programme, from improving current treatments to developing new treatments.
We are recognised regional training centres for navigation bronchoscopy, robotic surgery, image-guided thoracic surgery and cyberknife radiosurgery.