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Health clinics to hunt for cancer gene in families
News & events | 2 Dec 2004 | Tags: cancer gene
A NETWORK of health clinics for people who fear they may be at risk of cancer because their family has a history of the disease is being piloted by St George’s Hospital, London. The clinics, which will run at three GP surgeries and two hospitals in the South East of …
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Safe sex plea by hospital
News & events | 1 Dec 2004 | Tags: sexual health
AS HEALTH activists across the world today promote World Aids Day (1 December 2004), safe sex campaigners at St George’s Hospital release new figures which show a 13 per cent rise in the number of HIV infections in the local community. Data published by the Health Protection Agency reveals the …
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Hospital staff honoured for long service
News & events | 26 Nov 2004 | Tags: long service
TO SPEND the better part of your career with one company may strike some people as unusual. Not so for 40 members of staff from St George’s Hospital who on Wednesday 24 November were praised for each giving more than a quarter of a century’s service to the Trust and …
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Hospital scoops top prize at NHS oscars
News & events | 17 Nov 2004
AN INNOVATIVE software program that monitors deaths at St George’s Hospital, London has scooped a top prize at the health service equivalent of the Hollywood Oscars. The computer system and the team who created it won second prize in the category of Improvement in Performance Management at the annual Health …
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‘Stars at Bedtime’ launched for St George’s PICU
News & events | 15 Nov 2004 | Tags: picu
It was in 2002 when Archie Chilcott – a one year old baby – was admitted into the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, having a severe brain virus. His mum, Victoria spent hour upon hour reading stories to her little boy in the hope that …
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St George’s opens £4.6m Endoscopy Unit
News & events | 11 Nov 2004 | Tags: bowel cancer endoscopy lung
A £4.6M state-of-the-art centre for treating bowel and lung cancer has opened at St George’s Hospital, London, it was announced today. The new unit, which was built with funding from Wandsworth PCT, the Department of Health and the health charity Beating Bowel Cancer, will carry out more than 6,000 endoscopies …
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A&E sees 100pc of patients in 4 hours
News & events | 14 Oct 2004
FOR THE FIRST time ever, the A&E team at St George’s Hospital, Tooting has seen 100 per cent of patients within a target time of four hours. The record achievement, which occurred on two consecutive days last week, has been welcomed by the hospital as ‘a sign of fundamental change’ …
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Hospital in running for national award
News & events | 8 Oct 2004
THE CREATORS of an innovative software program that monitors mortality at St George’s Hospital, London have been named finalists in this year’s prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards. The unique software, developed by statistics expert Dr Jan Poloniecki and St George?s former medical director Professor Paul Jones, analyses mortality across …
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Hospital beds are bloomin’ Marvellous! – Hospital gardeners scoop top prize
News & events | 23 Sep 2004
GREEN-FINGERED groundsmen at St George’s Hospital have scooped a top, London-wide prize for gardening. Beating off horticultural competition from hospitals throughout the capital, a team of five gardeners from St George’s has won second place in the annual London Hospitals Gardens Competition run by the London Gardens Society. St George’s …
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Mexican Ministers spice up St George’s
News & events | 17 Sep 2004
THE TACOS AND TORTILLAS may have been missing but there was definitely a taste of Mexico down Tooting way last week (Thursday 16 September) when health ministers from the Central American country paid a special visit to St George’s Hospital. The delegation, led by Mexico’s Undersecretary of Innovation and Quality …
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