Your patients with a stoma may benefit from the specialist support offered by our stoma care service at St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospitals.

Vitamin D deficiency affects up to a quarter of the UK population, particularly the elderly, pregnant women and people with darker skin or those who lack exposure to the sun. Our biochemist offers some tips on testing.

During the Olympic and Paralympic Games up to 10 million people will attend events. Our hospitals will run a normal service during this period but travel to all of our hospitals and sites will be affected. Read on for advice for your practice and patients and arrangements for timely pathology transport.

GPs should be aware that we are harmonising our units of measurement for two biochemistry blood tests – Urate and Troponin. Notification of changes to these measures will be attached to test results and advice is available from the Trust's duty biochemists.

Our facility for weight loss management has relocated from Charing Cross Hospital. Patients should now be directed to our new Imperial Weight Centre at St Mary’s Hospital. Lead clinician, Mr Ahmed R Ahmed tells more about how to refer, the patient pathway and what support patients can expect from this service.

St Mary’s Jefferiss Wing offers patients an open access walk-in service for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and contraception. We also offer comprehensive and specialist services for HIV and AIDS and psycho-sexual, vulval and erectile conditions.

Victims of rape and sexual assault can be referred to the Havens at St Mary’s Hospital, a specialist centre that offers 24/7 services such as forensic examination and counselling to men, women and children.

We are concentrating our breast surgery and follow -up care services at Charing Cross Hospital. New outpatient appointments and imaging continue at St Mary’s Hospital.  Find out how will this affect your practice.

A 24/7 triage service has been initiated at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, giving pregnant women access to advise  and care out of hours.

Our new imaging bookings and call centre aims to improve booking services by calling patients to arrange a convenient appointment time.

GP lunchtime study on anticoagulation at Charing Cross Hospital on Tuesday 7 July; Paediatrics annual GP study at St Mary's on Friday 26 October 2012; NEW lung cancer, allergy advice and gynae web chat replays available online.

The Trust is making some changes to chemotherapy day care services.