London Helicopter Guide
A twin-engine helicopter in flight

Landing places

London hospital helipads

Hospital helipads exist for air ambulances and emergency patients. Whether other aircraft may use them is not stated.

London's Air Ambulance flies from the roof of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Other London hospitals have helipads used by the air ambulance services.

The pads

  • Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel: rooftop helipad, 284 ft, 17th floor of new building; London's Air Ambulance first landed for service 7 Dec 2018; service based on roof of the Royal London since 1989; used by London's Air Ambulance. Barts Health: aircraft overnight at RAF Northolt, at RLH from 08:00, stays only until sunset (daylight only), landing area roughly a tennis-court baseline in size. Whether other aircraft may land: not stated.
  • King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill: helipad opened Oct 2016 on top of Ruskin Wing; air ambulances (mostly Kent Surrey Sussex Air Ambulance); 7am-9pm originally, 24/7 since March 2019; 1-2 air ambulance night landings a week on average; funded by HELP Appeal donation. Others: not stated.
  • St Thomas' and Guy's: no helipad found in any source; not stated. Harefield Hospital: listed as a helicopter landing site inside Denham ATZ by Denham's own page (https://egld.com/faqs.html).
  • Royal London 2018 charity page says London has four trauma hospitals and RLH is the only one with a rooftop helipad (that statement dates from 2018 and conflicts with King's helipad; treat carefully).
Not for visiting aircraft

None of these pages say other aircraft may land. Do not assume a hospital helipad is available for anything other than emergency use.

Sources and checks

Facts on this page come from these sources, last checked 2026-11-03. Where a source could not be reached or did not say, we left the fact out.

  1. londonsairambulance.org.uk londonsairambulance.org.uk
  2. kch.nhs.uk kch.nhs.uk
  3. bartshealth.nhs.uk bartshealth.nhs.uk