The London Bridge Thoracic Group
Occupying a unique place in the field of respiratory and thoracic medicine
Appointments & Enquiries
020 7234 2007
London Bridge Hospital
27 Tooley Street
London SE1 2PR
About The London Bridge Thoracic Group
We’re proud to host this partnership of five eminent respiratory and thoracic consultants. The group have trained all over the world and are leaders in one of the UK’s highest volume respiratory and thoracic centres, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
This unique team of consultants provide the most extensive private respiratory and thoracic surgery services in the UK and specialise in all conditions of the lungs; from common respiratory conditions such as asthma and sleep apnoea to lung cancers, TB and inflammatory diseases.
Easy and rapid access to consultants and diagnostics
Patients can usually be seen by Professor George Santis for a respiratory consultation within two days and most investigations can be carried out in one visit. Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) during endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) is available - the gold standard of care in the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer.
The London Bridge Thoracic Group team
The latest diagnostic and imaging technology
Our facilities provide an extensive range of the most accurate yet least invasive diagnostic procedures to help diagnose and treat all respiratory and thoracic conditions. Diagnostic tests include:
- The latest imaging technology: CT, PET CT, SPECT CT and MRI scanning
- Lung function testing
- Spirometry
- FeNO testing for asthma
- Bronchial challenge testing
- Bronchoscopy – a narrow tube is threaded down your trachea, or windpipe, to look at your airways; we offer rigid bronchoscopy, under general anaesthetic, and fibreoptic bronchoscopy, requiring a sedative
- Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) – performed in our endoscopy department
- VATS lung biopsy – a technique undertaken laparoscopically, in which a tiny camera (thoracoscope) and surgical instruments are inserted into your chest through small cuts in the chest wall
- CT guided biopsy
- Mediastinoscopy – a test looking at the centre of your chest, carried out under general anaesthetic, where tissue is removed through a tiny cut in your chest
- Ventilation-perfusion studies – assessing airflow and blood flow to the lungs through the inhalation of radioactive material
- Percutaneous lung biopsy, pleural aspiration and biopsy
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)
- Histamine Provocation test
- Assessment of sleep disorders and sleep apnoea
- Fitness to fly assessments
Some of the conditions we treat
- Asthma
- COPD
- Emphysema
- Sarcoidosis
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Tuberculosis
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating which can be improved by a minor operation (thoracoscopic sympathectomy)
- Sleep apnoea
- Acute and Chronic Lung Infections
- Lung Cancer
- Mediastinal tumours, including thymoma
- Metastatic cancer to lung and pleura
- Mesothelioma
- Pleural empyema
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusions
- Chest wall conditions such as pectus excavatum or carinatum, chest wall factures
- Abnormalities of diaphragm muscle function including endometriosis
Diagnosing and treating post COVID-19 patients
Since the pandemic began, Prof Santis has been treating patients with residual damage and inflammation in the lung with extremely positive results, reversing the effects in the majority of cases.
A centre for robotic surgery for lung cancers and thymoma
In the hands of experienced robotic surgeons such as Mr Routledge and Mr Bille, appropriate lung cancer patients can benefit from robotic surgery including: minimal scarring from tiny incisions, lower infection rates, less blood loss and pain, lower conversion to open rates than laparoscopic, and a faster recovery time.
In robotic thoracic cases the far shorter length of stay in hospital can be as little as two days post surgery.
Innovation in the treatment of lung cancer
“For oncologists who have been giving chemotherapy with bleak outcomes and no real clinical progress for decades, suddenly in the last two years it’s changed dramatically. And the rate of change continues to accelerate.” Mr Tom Routledge, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon.
The London Bridge Thoracic Group consultants have a long-established reputation in the treatment of lung cancers, with access to all systemic and surgical treatments at London Bridge Hospital. We also treat metastatic cancers and other cancers within the chest.
Our location
27 Tooley Street
London SE1 2PR
Contact us
The London Bridge Thoracic Centre is situated in London Bridge Hospital.