Get involved
There are lots of ways that you can contribute to the Trust's ongoing success.
Click through to any of the tabs below to learn more about the different involvement opportunities:
Give us your feedback
Your feedback is extremely valuable to us, and helps us to improve our services.
Become a volunteer
There are lots of opportunities for volunteers to make a difference, from general admin support to helping out on a ward.
Donate to the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Charity
All the donations we receive go towards improving the experience of patients and staff.
Join our Patient Participation Forum (PPF)
You can be part of this voluntary group which champions the voice of the patient in the quality of care and contribute to all sorts of initiatives.
Youth Board
Our Youth Board, which launched in October 2021, is a fantastic way for young people aged 14 to 18 to get involved in projects to improve our hospitals and patient pathways, an in particular to make them more approachable and helpful for young people.
>> Learn more about what the Youth Board does here
>> You can sign up yourself / your child to the Youth Board here
Work experience
Work experience placements at the Trust provide an excellent opportunity to gain insight into professions in the NHS.
Cancer services
Cancer Services at LGT are very keen to ensure patients voices are heard and to improve services where identified.
We have a colleague working with MacMillan Cancer Support on better understanding the needs of the population served by LGT who are living with cancer – everyone, but especially people from seldom heard groups and those from ethnic minority backgrounds.
A questionnaire has been developed and a variety activities are planned to try and capture people's thoughts on their cancer care, to then guide potential solutions and options that the Trust can explore to improve access to cancer information and support locally.
If you want to be involved or receive further details please contact:
T: 07557 862 867
Research and clinical trials
The Trust has an active Research and Development team, and regularly hosts or runs clinical trials in which patients are encouraged to take part – paid opportunities are sometimes available, and the privacy and safety of your voluntary participation is paramount.
Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement (QI) uses different tools to help staff and patients work together to understand and solve problems. It involves ways of finding and trying out different ideas, and then measuring to see if the changes have made an improvement.
As a Trust, we encourage all QI projects to invite a Patient Voice Partner onto their project team.
If you’d like to learn more about QI before getting stuck in to a project, please visit our dedicated Improvement Hub, which has a wealth of information about QI and all the ways we make improvements at LGT.
You can also email lg.qi@nhs.net for more information, including on how you can receive QI training yourself if you plan on getting involved.
Getting involved: time commitments
You might be wondering how much time you would need to contribute for each way of getting involved. The below table provides an at-a-glance indication of this:
| Responding to surveys | 30 minutes, ad-hoc |
| Taking part in one-off focus groups to give your views on a particular issue | 3 hours |
| Participating in service reviews and redesigns | 1 hour a month, up to 6 months |
| Joining one of our many Quality Improvement (QI) projects and transformation programmes | 1-3 hours a month for 6-18 months |
| Helping with audits and quality reviews | 2-3 hours a month |
| Being part of a team inspecting an area of the hospital and giving feedback of the findings | 3 hours a month |
| Working with specific teams — for example with our Oncology and Macmillan colleagues on improving cancer services for all | 1-3 hours a month |
| Becoming a volunteer | At least 2 hours a week for at least 6 months |
| Joining our Patient Participation Forum | Ongoing commitment. At least 4 hours a month with additional contributions encouraged |