Department of Ageing and Health
The Department of Ageing and Health is a dynamic department right at the centre of the Integrated care strategic business unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It has researched and developed many new service delivery models in Geriatric and General Medicine, and as a consequence is an ideal place to work as a trainee doctor considering general medicine or general practice as a potential career path.
The department provides specialist services for older people within the Acute Trust and throughout Lambeth and Southwark supporting community services. In the Acute Trust services include its own inpatient unit at St Thomas’ Hospital (Older persons unit (OPU)), participation in General medicine (acute emergency floor and general wards) and input across multiple areas by our liason teams including POPS; surgery, orthopaedics, and oncology. It has its own specialist outpatients based at Guys (OPAU) and a newly established front door Acute Ambulatory-OPU within the emergency floor. Most Geriatricians also contribute to work as Locality Geriatricians within Lambeth and Southwark community services including working with GSTT@ Home service and within care homes.

