The government has given approval to Guy鈥檚 and St Thomas鈥� NHS Foundation Trust for a new surgical centre at Guy鈥檚.
The centre will be dedicated to non-emergency (elective) surgery and will include six new operating theatres in an eight-storey purpose-built building next to Guy鈥檚 Hospital, which is right next to London Bridge Station on the south bank of the Thames.
Elective orthopaedic surgery will transfer from Guy鈥檚 main theatres to the new centre. This will free up vital additional capacity to support other surgical services across the Trust.
The architect for the project is Ryder and main contractor is McLaughlin & Harvey.
Enabling works on the site at Great Maze Pond have begun, with building work scheduled to start in June 2026. Construction is expected to finish by the end of 2028, and the centre to open in spring 2029.
Trust chief executive Ian Abbs said: 鈥淭he Guy鈥檚 surgical centre will give us state-of-the-art new theatres so we can ensure that people get their operations when they need them, allowing us to continue to deliver outstanding care for our patients.
鈥淗aving a surgical centre dedicated to complex, non-emergency operations benefits orthopaedic patients, while also enabling us to upgrade our existing theatres so they can respond to the needs of all our patients, now and in the future.鈥�
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