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Patient safety
News & events | 6 Jul 2012 | Tags: Miles Scott safety
In his latest blog Miles discusses the inquest into the death of Kane Gorny, which colleagues may have read about in the media over the last week. Kane was admitted for an operation in 2009 with complex medical needs and we failed to care for him as we should have. Sadly he died as a result. Miles apologises on behalf of the trust for this failure in our duty of care, and discusses the action taken to protect other patients.
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Briefing: Midwifery staffing workforce review
News & events | 27 Jun 2012 | Tags: Midwifery staffing workforce review
Summary As part of creating an expanded maternity workforce which is sustainable and safe, a formal staff consultation has been carried out into the skill mix within midwifery. This consultation is about net investment in our maternity service, which will increase the number of midwives and improve quality. Evidence clearly …
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St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust passes annual cancer targets
News & events | 25 Jun 2012 | Tags: Healthcare passes annual cancer targets national cancer treatment and diagnosis targets
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has passed all national cancer treatment and diagnosis targets for 2011/12, improving the prospects for thousands of cancer patients. Figures published by the Department of Health showed over 95 per cent of patients with suspected cancer were seen at St George’s Hospital, Tooting …
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Chief executive blog sheds a light on inner workings of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
News & events | 22 Jun 2012 | Tags: blog Chief executive blog launched Miles Scott
Miles Scott, chief executive, has launched a new blog on the St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust website to give our staff, patients, members and stakeholders more of an insight into how the trust works. In his first blog Miles talks about the hard work across the trust to …
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BMA industrial action, 21st June 2012
News & events | 21 Jun 2012 | Tags: BMA British Medical Association industrial action
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been working closely with doctors to ensure that any impact on patients, due to industrial action by members of the British Medical Association, is minimised today, Thursday 21st June 2012. As anticipated, there is no significant impact on our services and thanks to …
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Art exhibition shows Bolingbroke in new light
News & events | 12 Jun 2012 | Tags: art exhibition Belinda Harwood Bolingbroke Hospital
A new contemporary art exhibition inspired by the former Bolingbroke Hospital will open to the public at Contemporary Applied Arts in central London W1T 1DD from 15th June until 21st July. ‘The Bolingbroke Hospital: A view backwards’ is a collaboration between Arts St George’s (formerly known as Arts for the Teaching and …
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St George’s consultant elected President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
News & events | 1 Jun 2012 | Tags: anaesthesia consultant elected President RCoA Royal College of Anaesthetists
Jean-Pierre van Besouw, consultant anaesthetist at St George’s Hospital, has been elected President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom. Jean-Pierre, known to friends and colleagues as J-P, qualified in 1981 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He …
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Putting patients first
News & events | 1 Jun 2012
All of our performance indicators are important measures of how we are doing as a trust, but amongst the many performance indicators that NHS organisations have to report, I pay particularly close attention to are those that very clearly relate to patient experience. It is vital that we never stop …
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Chief Executive’s Blog, introduction to
News & events | 31 May 2012
I’ll be using this blog to give our staff, patients, members and stakeholders a bit more of an insight into how St George’s Healthcare works. I hope to be able to shine a light on why and how decisions are made about the future of the trust as well as …
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Emergency Department staff urge Jubilee care
News & events | 30 May 2012 | Tags: a&e Jubilee Bank Holiday Jubilee care
Emergency Department staff at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, are asking local people to be careful over the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend, especially if they are hanging out the street bunting, planning a barbecue or doing a spot of gardening. The soaring temperatures that London enjoyed last weekend coincided with over 40 …
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