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New Chief Executive for St George’s
News & events | 11 Oct 2006 | Tags: chief executive
David Astley, the founding Chief Executive of the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, has been announced as the new Chief Executive of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 1999 David and his team brought together three Hospital Trusts from Ashford, Margate and Canterbury and combined them into one …
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Bolingbroke Hospital
News & events | 10 Oct 2006 | Tags: bolingbroke hospital
Today we will start a four week engagement process with our staff and stakeholders about where to provide the services that are currently being provided from the Bolingbroke Hospital in Battersea. Once we have feedback from everyone involved with the Bolingbroke Hospital, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will …
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MP opens hospital health info centre
News & events | 10 Jul 2006
SADIQ KHAN, MP for Tooting, was the guest of honour at a special ceremony to open a new information centre for patients at St George’s Hospital. The Health Information Centre is run by volunteers and stocks a wide range of free information about health, diseases and operations. Opening the new …
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Birthday honour for hospital Chaplain
News & events | 19 Jun 2006
A CHAPLAIN at St George’s Hospital has been awarded the MBE in the Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours list. The Reverend Canon Ian Ainsworth-Smith, 65, was awarded the Membership of the Order of the British Empire at the weekend for services to the NHS. A chaplain at the hospital since 1973, …
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St George’s takes further action to reduce deficit
News & events | 17 May 2006 | Tags: reduce deficit
The St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been asked by the Department of Health to speed up its financial recovery plans and balance its books within one financial year. This means taking action above and beyond that already planned. On top of the £19 million that the Trust …
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Actors tour hospital in sonnet spree
News & events | 16 May 2006
A COMPANY of actors will swap the boards for the wards this week when they perform Shakespeare’s sonnets to patients at St George’s Hospital. Over the next five days, five actors from North London theatre company Lightning Ensemble will tour outpatient clinics and nine of the hospital’s wards, reciting the …
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We’re proud of our nurses, says hospital
News & events | 12 May 2006 | Tags: nurses
ST GEORGE’S Healthcare NHS Trust has today paid tribute to the “skill, dedication and achievements” of its 2,500 nurses and midwives. Speaking at an event held to mark International Nurses Day (Friday 12 May), the hospital’s Director of Nursing, Geraldine Walters, praised nurses and midwives for the outstanding care they …
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Trust named heart attack centre for region
News & events | 11 May 2006 | Tags: centre heart attack
ST GEORGE’S Healthcare NHS Trust has been named the official heart attack centre for South West London by paramedics. A bulletin sent to London Ambulance staff on 22 March named St George’s as one of nine heart attack centres in the capital. Other heart attack centres include King’s College Hospital, …
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Hospital Non-Executive Director to serve four more years
News & events | 10 May 2006 | Tags: non-executive director
A SENIOR civil servant with the Tribunals Service is to serve a second term on the board of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Mrs Valerie Vaughan-Dick, aged 45 from Streatham, is Director of Finance and Resources at the Tribunals Service, part of the Department of Constitutional Affairs. She …
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Trust sells hospital for £15m
News & events | 5 May 2006
THE ATKINSON Morley Hospital in Wimbledon owned by St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been sold to a private developer for £15.1m. The sale of the hospital, which was home to the Trust’s neurosciences unit until 2003 when services transferred to the new Atkinson Morley Wing at St …
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