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Enhancing the healing environment at HMP Wandsworth
News & events | 1 Feb 2011
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 which has helped to encourage inmates to access …
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Local children say hello to the national year of communication with balloon launch at Wandsworth Museum
News & events | 31 Jan 2011 | Tags: national year of communication
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. The balloons were released by children from local day and community …
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Healthy eating event feeds public interest
News & events | 27 Jan 2011 | Tags: Catherine Collins principal dietitian
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. This was the first in a series of special member events aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. …
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St George’s Hospital combat winter flu pandemic with new one hour test
News & events | 14 Jan 2011 | Tags: winter flu
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. The Xpert Flu test, which runs on Cepheid’s GeneXpert System, simultaneously detects …
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St George’s commended for emergency training innovation
News & events | 7 Jan 2011 | Tags: emergency training innovation pioneering initiative simulation room
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. A new simulation room has been located in the accident and emergency department at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. The new facility, the …
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New Associate Non-Executive Director appointed
News & events | 22 Dec 2010 | Tags: Associate Non Executive Director Sarah Wilton
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust Chair, Naaz Coker, has announced Sarah Wilton will be joining the trust as Associate Non Executive Director on 1 January 2011. Sarah is joining St George’s Healthcare from NHS Wandsworth, where she had been non executive director since April 2007. At NHS Wandsworth, Sarah was …
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Warm reunion as ‘home away from home’ celebrates fifth year in Tooting
News & events | 17 Dec 2010 | Tags: Elizabeth Stone Ronald McDonald House Sadiq Khan warm reunion
It was a warm reunion as staff and guests celebrated the five-year anniversary of Ronald McDonald House in Tooting this week. Ronald McDonald House staff were pleased to welcome back the Stone family, who stayed at the house in February 2010 when their nine-day-old baby, Sarah, was admitted to St …
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Queen Mary’s Hospital archivist receives Civic Award in recognition of saving local history
News & events | 19 Nov 2010 | Tags: archivist Civic Award Gordon Jones recognition
Gordon Jones, chairman of the Queen Mary’s Hospital archive and museum group, was honoured by the Mayor of Wandsworth with a Civic Award at a glitzy town hall ceremony in November in recognition of the significant contribution he has made to life of the borough. 10 years ago Gordon took …
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Bionic ear inventor meets young cochlear patients at St George’s Hospital
News & events | 10 Nov 2010 | Tags: Bionic ear cochlear implant Professor Graeme Clark
On Wednesday morning children from across South West London and Surrey who have had their lives transformed by a cochlear implant, or bionic ear, got the chance to meet the device’s inventor Professor Graeme Clark at St George’s Hospital. Professor Clark met several children and their families, including seven year …
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Local MP becomes St George’s 1000th Foundation Trust member
News & events | 15 Oct 2010 | Tags: 1000th member Sadiq Khan
Tooting MP Sadiq Khan has become the 1000th member of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and is supporting its plans to become a Foundation Trust (FT) in 2011. As a FT St George’s will remain fully within the NHS but will have greater financial freedom to develop facilities and services …
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