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| St George’s unable to proceed with St Helier merger | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust submitted a bid for a potential merger with St Helier Hospital in November 2011. |
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| Wolfson move to start in March | |
After reviewing the outcomes of the recent Improving neurorehabilitation services in southwest London public consultation, St George’s Healthcare is moving ahead with plans to relocate services based at the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre.
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| Mayor officially opens new breast unit at St George’s | |
The Rose Centre, a £4m state-of-the-art breast diagnostic unit, was officially opened at St George’s Hospital, London, on Thursday 19th January by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Jane Cooper.
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| Visitors and patients can help keep Norovirus out of hospital | |
St George’s Hospital, Tooting, is asking patients and visitors suffering with symptoms of diarrhoea or vomiting (D&V) not to come into hospital and instead contact their GP or pharmacy.
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| Daybreak comes to St George’s | |
ITV’s Daybreak breakfast programme featured live broadcasts from St George’s Hospital, London, on Friday 23rd December 2011.The programme focused on frontline care and what it was like for parents and staff on the hospital’s neonatal unit at Christmas.
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| Wake up to St George’s | |
ITV’s Daybreak programme will include live broadcasts from St George’s Neonatal Unit on Friday 23rd December. The national breakfast programme is on air from 06.00 to 08.30hrs and reports from the hospital are expected to include interviews with staff, patients and their families and explore what hospital life is like during the festive period.
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| State-of-the-art medical training facility opens at St George’s | |
A new £350,000 state-of-the-art training facility was officially opened at the St George’s campus, southwest London, on 15th December by Niall Dickson, chief executive and registrar of the General Medical Council. The Advanced Patient Simulator Centre, a joint project between St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London, provides specialist training for healthcare professionals and students. It allows them to test their skills in practical scenarios based on real-life situations including surgical and medical emergencies. They work with computer-controlled patient manikins that realistically mimic a wide range of health problems. Trainers can remotely control the manikins, which include both adult and child models, to instantly change the scenarios and introduce new problems for the trainees to tackle.
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| People with winter bug urged to stay away from hospital | |
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People suffering with the winter sickness bug Norovirus are being urged to stay away from hospital and instead contact their GP or pharmacy. Norovirus, which causes diarrhoea and vomiting, is generally unpleasant but rarely serious. However, by bringing it into hospital, people could be putting vulnerable patients and healthcare workers at risk.
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| Panto brings sparkle to hospital children | |
Children on St George’s Hospital’s paediatric wards enjoyed an early Christmas treat on 1st December with a pantomime production of Aladdin by Starlight Children’s Foundation, as part of its Christmas of Happiness campaign.
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| BBC newsreader helps celebrate new family centred care role at St George’s Hospital | |
SBBC newsreader Sophie Raworth was the special guest at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, on 21st November, helping to celebrate the new family centred care (FCC) coordinator role created to provide support for families of premature and sick babies in southwest London.
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| St George’s mortality rates among the lowest in England | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has been named as having one of the lowest mortality (death) rates in the country in an annual study published by Dr Foster, the independent healthcare intelligence group, on Monday 28th November.
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| St George’s consults on plans that will improve neurorehabilitation services | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has today, Monday 28th November 2011, launched a public consultation on its plans to develop its neurorehabilitation services designed to improve the care offered to patients in southwest London.
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| Mum receives daughter’s kidney in St George’s first tissue incompatible kidney transplant | |
The transplant team at St George’s Hospital has performed its first tissue incompatible (also known as HLA incompatible) kidney transplant on a patient from London.
Debra Gouldbourne, from Catford, was born with a condition that caused her kidneys to fail and received her first kidney transplant in 1986. In 2010 this kidney also began to fail and Debra’s daughter Jade came forward as a potential donor.
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| Public asked to think before heading to A&E | |
Frontline clinicians at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, are urging local people to think carefully about the most appropriate place to go for healthcare this winter rather than heading straight for A&E. Alternative services include GP surgeries, minor injuries units, walk-in centres or community pharmacies where people will be seen quicker.
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| Joint HR director for trust and university | |
Wendy Gay has been appointed joint director of human resources at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London, and is expected to take up her new post in February 2012. The innovative appointment is part of a partnership programme that is focusing on closer working between the two organisations which share a main campus in Tooting, southwest London.
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| St George's Healthcare to host diabetes chat on Twitter | |
On Monday 14th November (World Diabetes Day) St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London, will be hosting a chat on Twitter with Dr Roni Sharvanu Saha, consultant in acute medicine, diabetes and endocrinology, to raise awareness of diabetes, a condition which affects more than 2.8 million people in the UK.
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| New specialist staff will improve care for St George’s sickle cell patients | |
Two new specialist appointments made at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust during September will bring improved care for local sickle cell patients. Dr Elizabeth Rhodes has joined the trust as sickle cell haematology consultant ensuring that patients living with this life-long condition will receive stabilised and consistent care. Dr Penelope Cream has been appointed as clinical health psychologist, a role that is crucial in supporting patients in the management of their condition as well as dealing with the chronic and acute pain.
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| St George’s introduces website advertising | |
During October St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, will introduce advertising onto its website, www.stgeorges.nhs.uk, helping to support the production of high quality information for patients and visitors. The adverts will appear in a way that does not impact on the experience of website users and the trust will retain the right to decline any that it considers to be unsuitable. For example, adverts for tobacco products, alcohol, gambling and political parties will not be allowed to feature.
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| Pioneering stem cell treatment for sickle cell is a UK first | |
A pioneering stem cell transplant treatment used for sickle cell patients has been successful in curing 23-year-old Remmy Kamya of this crippling disease. The treatment, which is a UK first, was led by Dr Mickey Koh, director of stem cell transplants and consultant haematologist at St George’s Hospital in London. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited, lifelong disease and is the most common of the hereditary blood disorders. Red blood cells are produced by stem cells within the marrow found inside the bones. Healthy red blood cells are biconcaved discs which can bend and flex easily. In those with sickle cell disease, faulty stem cells produce red blood cells that are crescent shaped. These are rigid, unable to squeeze through smaller blood vessels, and prone to causing blockages that deprive parts of the body of oxygen, leading to periods of intense pain.
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| Robert back on his feet thanks to St George’s major trauma services | |
Last year single parent Robert Williamson lay in a road with a shattered pelvis, crushed bowel and dislocated hips, wondering if he would ever walk again. Just 12 months later Robert is back on his feet after being taken to St George’s Hospital immediately following his accident. He had been involved in a serious motorcycle accident in Streatham Hill which saw him collide with a central reservation, propelled more than 10 feet up in the air, and end up under the wheels of a 17 tonne lorry – which ran over him twice.
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| St George’s celebrates 40 years of CT scanning | |
It was hailed as the biggest medical breakthrough since the stethoscope and the discovery of x-rays. This month, October 2011, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust celebrates 40 years since the very first clinical use of computed tomography (CT). CT scanning is a non-invasive medical imaging method, used to create 3D images of human organs. A CT scanner sends x-rays from one side of an object to the other, allowing it to calculate the density of the object it scans. The technology creates an image ‘slice’ by measuring an object’s ability to block the x-ray beam. These slices are assembled together and the 3D image produced allows clinicians to identify different tissues in the body, such as bone, muscle and tumours.
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| Soaring temperature leads to record attendance at St George’s A&E | |
The accident and emergency (A&E) department at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, experienced record attendances during the early October heat wave treating nearly 1200 patients between Saturday 1st October and Monday 3rd October – a record for the time of year. Phil Moss, clinical director for A&E and major trauma, said: “The A&E department at St George’s is the busiest in London, so we are used to treating high numbers of patients all year round and our average is normally around 330 a day. However, the numbers we saw as a result of the hot October weather were well beyond the levels we would expect, with 424 patients attending on Monday 3rd October alone.
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| Macmillan information and support centre officially opened at St George’s Hospital | |
On 21st September, the new Macmillan information and support centre for patients, carers and families affected by cancer at St George’s Hospital was officially opened by Cllr Mrs Jane Cooper, Mayor of Wandsworth and Chris Cotton, chief executive, Royal Albert Hall and former patient of the hospital. The centre provides essential free information and support for anyone affected by cancer and is staffed by two specialist nurses; a Macmillan cancer information manager and a Macmillan cancer information officer, who are available to answer any questions. Patients or carers can drop in, without the need to make an appointment.
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| Public meeting to discuss potential integration with St Helier Hospital – Thursday 6th October | |
The next public meeting to discuss the potential integration of St George’s Healthcare with St Helier Hospital, including Sutton Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, will take place on Thursday 6th October 2011.
The meeting will take place in the Whitehall Lecture Theatre at St Helier Hospital from 18:15 to 20:00hrs.
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| St George’s Healthcare appoints new chief executive | |
The board of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London, has appointed Miles Scott as its new chief executive. Miles, who has been chief executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since August 2005, is expected to take up his new post by January 2012. Before joining Bradford Teaching Hospitals Miles was chief executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust for four years. He started his NHS career on the General Management Training Scheme in 1988 after graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in History. His career in the NHS has encompassed acute, community and mental health services, the King’s Fund and Trent Regional Office. Miles is currently vice chairman of the Foundation Trust Network Board, chair of the West Yorkshire Comprehensive Local Research Network and a member of the GMC Undergraduate Board.
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| Autumn issue Membership Matters out now | |
The autumn issue of Membership Matters, the publication for St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s members, is out now. This latest issue contains information about the trust’s potential integration with St Helier Hospital and a reflection from Naaz Coker, trust chair, as she comes to the end of her term in office. Membership Matters also includes information about future member events which are free to attend and cover a range of subjects including infection control (superbugs) and diabetes.
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| Mayor officially opens St George’s £1.4m resuscitation unit | |
Mayor of Wandsworth, Cllr Mrs Jane Cooper, officially opened the new £1.4m resuscitation unit at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, on 16th September. The unit, the most modern in London, has been expanded and refurbished as part of the hospital’s development as a major trauma centre. The new facility provides eight resuscitation bays each with a large bed space to allow emergency care staff to manage the most complex of cases. The unit also houses a dedicated overhead x-ray system built into the ceiling of the department.
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| New chair for St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust | |
The Appointments Commission has announced the appointment of Christopher Smallwood as the new chair of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. He will take up his position from 1st November 2011 and succeeds Naaz Coker who has come to the end of her eight year term of office.
Christopher has extensive NHS experience having previously been chair of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and prior to that, chair of NHS Hounslow. He is a policy adviser to The Prince’s Charities and until 2005, was economic adviser to Barclays plc, following several years as a partner at the City consultancy Makinson Cowell. Christopher has also worked at TSB Group as strategic development director and chief economist. He was economics editor of The Sunday Times and chief economist and head of financial strategy and planning for BP. He has been an economic adviser to HM Treasury and a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He was also, until recently, a member of the Competition Commission.
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| St George’s showcases its main entrance during Open House London Weekend | |
St George's Hospital, Tooting, is participating in the Open House London Weekend on 17th and 18th September by showcasing the Grosvenor Wing main entrance. St George’s Open House day will run from 10:00hrs -16:00hrs and architect Sylwia Nyga from Gibberd Architects, artist Rebecca Salter and landscape designers Charles Funke will be present to talk about their work. Visitors can enjoy a 30 minute guided tour at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30 and 15:30.
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| Living our values - St George's Healthcare Annual Report 2010/11 | |
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust has published its 2010/11 annual report and accounts. The report highlights how the trust is living its values, launched in April 2010 – excellent, kind, responsible, respectful - which set out the standards of behaviour expected throughout the organisation.
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| St George’s cardiac arrest survival rate among best in London | |
The survival rate of patients brought to St George’s Hospital having suffered a cardiac arrest is in the top two in London, according to statistics published by London Ambulance Service in August.
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| St George’s Healthcare’s Annual General Meeting 2011 | |
St George’s Healthcare’s 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Thursday 29th September starting at 18.00hrs.
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| Share your thoughts on our potential integration with St Helier Hospital | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has been invited to formally bid to integrate with St Helier Hospital, including Sutton Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children.
To help us develop our bid we would like to invite local stakeholders to share their views with us at a special meeting to be on Thursday 18th August 2011 from 18.00hrs to 20.00hrs.
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| St George’s Healthcare response to BBC Panorama | |
This is an extremely sad case and our deepest sympathies go to the Ballantyne family. At the public inquest, the coroner recorded that Suzanne’s death was unavoidable and recognised that medical staff did the best they could, correctly following protocols in use at the time.
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| Pioneering healthcare project tailors care around young people in Wandsworth | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has launched a project to help young people with kidney disease in southwest London balance their illness and their burgeoning lives.
As part of a national 18-month project led by quality improvement organisation NHS Kidney Care, the trust has formed a multidisciplinary working group, which combines the expertise of consultants, nurses, psychologists and social workers. The aim is to ensure that there is a consistent standard of care for patients in Wandsworth aged between 17 and 25 moving from paediatric to adult renal units.
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| New information and support centre for St George’s cancer patients | |
A new Macmillan information and support centre for patients, carers and families affected by cancer open its doors at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, yesterday. The centre, located on the ground floor of Grosvenor Wing, will provide vital free information and support for anyone affected by cancer, whether they are worried they may have the disease, during treatment or whilst adjusting to life afterwards. The relaxed and informal space will include a main area offering information booklets and leaflets and a quiet room.
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| St George’s Hospital leads the way in shortening patient stays | |
An innovative change in the way cancer services are provided at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, means patients can go home sooner after surgery. The trust is one of only 13 pilot sites in England working in collaboration with NHS Improvement to take forward the day case or overnight stay discharge model for women receiving breast surgery.
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| Better Services Better Value events | |
NHS South West London are organising two events to discuss the Better Services Better Value review of health services in South West London. These events are aimed at individuals and groups who have a particular interest in health, like Local Involvement Networks (LINks), local councillors and patient groups. The details of the events are as follows:
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| Public pick rose for new breast unit | |
A public campaign to name a new breast diagnostic unit at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, attracted nearly 400 votes, of which more that 50 per cent were for the “Rose Centre.”
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| First St George’s community open day celebrates a Tooting success story | |
Around 2000 people enjoyed St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London’s first community open day, which took place on Saturday 18th June.
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| Breastfeeding Awareness Week 2011 | |
St George’s Healthcare staff will be out in force at Southside Shopping Centre between 10.30 and 15.00hrs on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th June 2011 to help Wandsworth’s shoppers with all their breastfeeding queries as part of Breastfeeding Awareness Week 2011 and hand out breastfeeding information and freebies.
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| Name our breast diagnostic unit | |
St George's Hospital is a regional cancer centre and its clinical results for breast screening are among the best in London. To modernise the service a stand-alone facility providing state-of-the-art technology for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other breast diseases is under development and we’re inviting our patients and the public to vote on its name.
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| Naaz Coker, chair of St George's Healthcare announces the interim chief executive appointment | |
Naaz Coker, chair of St George's Healthcare announces the interim chief executive appointment.Naaz said:"On behalf of the trust board I am pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Coles as interim chief executive. Peter, who will take up the post on Monday 6th June, has had a long and distinguished career in the NHS. He has worked at trust, foundation trust, primary care trust (PCT), regional and Department of Health levels and in acute, mental health and primary care services.
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| St George’s Healthcare stroke services among the best in the UK | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s stroke services were rated in the top 25 per cent in the UK, according to the National Sentinel Audit for Stroke, organised by the Royal College of Physicians.
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| Review to look at Better Services, Better Value in southwest London | |
Doctors, nurses and therapists are coming together with patients and their representatives to review health services in southwest London. They are calling the review: Better Services Better Value
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| Naaz Coker to step down as chair in October | |
St George’s Healthcare chair, Naaz Coker, has announced that she will be stepping down when her second four-year term comes to an end in October of this year...
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| Community services information and advice day announced | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has joined with Tooting Safer Neighbourhood team (Metropolitan Police), Wandsworth Adult Social Services, Wandsworth Carers Centre and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and other voluntary sector agencies to pilot a community services advice day in Tooting...
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| St George's Healthcare chief executive announces decision to step down | |
David Astley has announced his decision to step down as chief executive of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in south west London...
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| Record low infection rates at St George’s Hospital | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has achieved the lowest infection rates it has ever recorded for MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C.diff) at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, and the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre, Wimbledon...
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| Spring issue Membership Matters out now | |
The spring issue of Membership Matters, the quarterly publication for St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s members, is out now...
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| St George’s Healthcare invests in new trauma facilities | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s commitment to provide new and improved facilities for patients is continuing with work to expand the A&E resuscitation department on the main hospital site in Tooting...
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| Non-executive director reappointed | |
Chair of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, Naaz Coker, has announced the reappointment of non-executive director, Graham Hibbert. |
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| First community open day for St George’s | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and St George’s, University of London will co-host a community open day at their shared main site in Tooting on Saturday 18th June. |
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| C. difficile increases risk of death six-fold in patients with inflammatory bowel disease | |
Patients admitted to hospital with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) face a sixfold greater risk of death if they become infected with Clostridium difficile, a new study has found. The researchers say IBD patients should be screened on admission to protect them from serious illness...
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| Partnership working combats crime | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is helping local police ‘fill in the blanks’ of assault crimes in a bid to reduce violent offences in Wandsworth...
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| A touch of magic comes to St George's Hospital | |
Mickey and Minnie Mouse brought smiles to the children on the paediatric wards at St George’s Hospital on Wednesday, 6th April...
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| Foundation Trust delay will ensure quality and safety | |
The board of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust agreed at its meeting held on March 31st to delay the timeline for its Foundation Trust (FT) application to April 2013....
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| Mixed sex accommodation declaration of compliance online | |
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust has published its mixed sex accommodation of compliance online. The declaration includes details about the work St George's undertakes to...
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| St George’s Healthcare members keen to be governors | |
More than 100 members attended St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s first governor information session on Tuesday 8th February, chaired by non-executive director Moira Nangle. This was the first in a series of sessions aimed at explaining the role of a foundation trust...
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| St George's Healthcare announces £55m savings target | |
St George’s Healthcare has today announced to staff that it is planning to save £55 million during 2011/12. The figure made up of a £40 million cost reduction programme (CRP) and £15 million related to quality, innovation, productivity, prevention (QIPP) targets...
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| Enhancing the healing environment at HMP Wandsworth | |
Thursday 27th January 2011 saw the unveiling of the newly refurbished central health unit at Wandsworth Prison. The unit has been completely overhauled, with what was formerly considered a grey, soulless, drab and depressing environment replaced by a vibrant and comfortable setting...
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| Local children say hello to the national year of communication with balloon launch at Wandsworth Museum | |
The St George’s Healthcare community speech and language promotion and prevention team launched Hello, the 2011 national year of communication campaign, with a star studded ‘words will take you far’ balloon launch at Wandsworth Museum on 28th January 2011...
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| Healthy eating event feeds public interest | |
More than 200 local people attended St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s first member event on Wednesday 19th January entitled Nutrition in a nutshell – how to eat healthy and live longer by Catherine Collins, principal dietitian...
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| St George's Hospital combat winter flu pandemic with new one hour test | |
St. George’s Hospital is coping well under the enormous pressures of the winter flu season thanks to a new rapid test that has enabled the microbiology and virology laboratories and the infection control team to offer round-the-clock services...
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| St George's commended for emergency training innovation | |
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has been commended by the London Deanery for a pioneering initiative that has seen a major trauma manikin introduced in an emergency environment...
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