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Blue Sky Centre celebrates first birthday

News & events | 10 Apr 2019

The team at the Blue Sky Centre, our ambulatory care service for children and young people at St George’s, are celebrating their first year of being open full time this month. Since opening full time in April 2018, the centre has seen over 2,500 patients who would otherwise have been …
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April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

News & events | 10 Apr 2019

Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer yet it’s a disease which is often overlooked and diagnosed too late. Every year over 41,500 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer and around 16,000 people die of the disease. To mark the awareness month, our Colorectal Cancer team, along with …
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World-first maternity project saves babies’ lives and reduces emergency Caesarean sections in multiple births

News & events | 5 Apr 2019

A pioneering project working with mothers of twins, triplets and more has reduced the number of caesarean sections and admissions to hospital during pregnancy.
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Good luck to The Garden Productions as 24 Hours in A&E nominated for a BAFTA

News & events | 3 Apr 2019

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts have shortlisted 24 Hours in A&E within the Factual Series category of this year’s awards ceremony.

The nomination is the end result of a huge amount of hard work involving our Emergency Department, plus staff and teams from across the Trust – both clinical and non-clinical.
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Patient visitors now welcome all day at St George’s and Queen Mary’s

News & events | 2 Apr 2019

From Monday 1 April, friends and family can visit their loved ones at our hospitals any time between 8am-8pm, any day of the week. The extension of visiting hours at both St George’s Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton is designed to improve the experience of patients, …
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Inspirational Issy dancing again following paralysing stroke

News & events | 29 Mar 2019

Issy Dolby, 9, returned to dancing in January after being left paralysed from having a stroke last year.
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New NIPT quality standards to be developed by St George’s Professor

News & events | 26 Mar 2019

Professor Asma Khalil, Consultant Obstetrician at St George’s, is part of a collaborative partnership to develop quality standards for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).
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Teams across the Trust celebrate Nutrition and Hydration Week

News & events | 20 Mar 2019

Last week (11-17 March) was Nutrition and Hydration Week, with teams across the Trust organising a variety of events and giveaways for patients, staff and visitors. The week aims to educate and engage people on the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing in health and social …
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Call for more living kidney donors on World Kidney Day

News & events | 13 Mar 2019

139 people in London have received a kidney transplant from a stranger in the last five years thanks to someone they didn’t know donating altruistically while they are still alive as part of the UK Kidney Sharing Scheme.
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UK first for trauma and orthopaedic team at St George’s

News & events | 8 Mar 2019

Our trauma and orthopaedic team became the first in the UK and second in the world to use the new T2 Alpha Stryker tibial nail in February.
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