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Guardian angels on ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 17 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours A&E cancer guardian angels Paediatrics seris 8
This week’s episode focuses on patients and their families who feel like a guardian angel has watched over them at a crucial time.
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Nutrition and Hydration Week 2015 is here!
News & events | 16 Mar 2015
Find out what we’ll be doing to support this internationally renowned awareness campaign
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John feels the wonder of the da Vinci robot
News & events | 12 Mar 2015 | Tags: da Vinci kidney partial nephrectomy robotic surgery urology world kidney day
St George’s has been reported to be the hospital carrying out the highest number of partial nephrectomies using the da Vinci® Surgical System.
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St George’s tackles false fire alarms on site
News & events | 11 Mar 2015 | Tags: false alarms fire alarms Fire Brigade new training
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest single-site hospitals in the UK. Due to the size of our site the trust has chosen to operate under an automatic fire system which triggers an immediate call to the fire brigade when an alarm is activated. Recent …
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Broken bones and broken relationships in ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 10 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours 24 hours in A&E CT relationships trauma
This week’s episode focuses on patients recovering from broken bones as well as broken relationships.
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Flowers from the Queen delight visitors and staff
News & events | 5 Mar 2015 | Tags: Her Majesty Royal Family Royals St George's st george's hospital St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Queen tooting
Staff at St George’s Hospital were surprised and delighted to receive a call from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to say that Her Majesty the Queen wanted to donate some flowers to us.
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More drama with ’24 Hours in A&E’ this week
News & events | 4 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours 24 Hours A&E CT scan Emergency Department spinal fractures Stroke
We’re back for another 60-minutes of A&E drama this Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 4. This week the episode focuses on a group of women who come into the department needing treatment for a variety of illnesses and trauma.
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St George’s trains the Sky1 TV stars at a ‘Critical’ bootcamp
News & events | 3 Mar 2015 | Tags: Critical drama education filming major trauma centre Sky 1 training
Sky 1’s ‘Critical’ contacted St George’s for guidance on medical accuracy. Dr Heather Jarman, Consultant Nurse in Emergency Care at St George’s offered to provide training for the 23-strong cast and crew.
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Parents, children and partners on ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 24 Feb 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours 24 hours in A&E cardiology family relationships Series 8 trauma
This week’s episode was scheduled to be the last in the current series. However, we know it’s still cold outside and you need some St George’s A&E drama to warm your heart and keep things cosy on a midweek evening so we’re going to keep the episodes coming
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St George’s to create a new specialist youth service for victims of gang-related violence
News & events | 17 Feb 2015 | Tags: deputy mayor funding gang-related violence major trauma major trauma centre new initiative specialist youth workers
St George’s will be one of the major trauma centres (MTC) to host specialist youth workers dealing directly with young victims of gang crime, it was announced today. The youth workers will be placed in every MTC to support victims and reduce youth violence in London under the major expansion …
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