News


Strike action during September and October: information for patients

The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced that hospital consultants will take part in strike action on Tuesday 19 September and Wednesday 20 September and from Monday 2 October to Wednesday 4 October, and junior doctors will strike from Wednesday 20 September to Friday 22 September and from Monday 2 …
Continue reading

7 Aug 2023


St George’s staff mix with royalty and celebrities at NHS 75 party

Long-serving St George’s staff were among the guests at a tea party attended by royalty to mark the NHS’s 75th birthday. Mark Jenkins, Senior Clinical Technologist, and Evelyn Chong, Catering Supervisor, were invited to the event which Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales also visited. Hosted by …
Continue reading

17 Jul 2023


Hospital group says fresh round of junior doctors’ strikes could prove most challenging yet

A wave of back-to-back strikes will severely impact hospital services over the coming week – and will follow the busiest month of 2023 for one hospital group. St George’s, Epsom and St Helier hospitals have faced significant pressure in recent weeks, with emergency attendances in June ramping up. Last month …
Continue reading

12 Jul 2023


Families continue save and improve lives through deceased organ donation at St George’s Hospital

New figures out today reveal that there were 34 patients who donated their organs after death at St George’s Hospital last year, helping save or improve the lives of 4,532 people desperately in need of a transplant across the UK. NHS Blood and Transplant and St George’s Hospital have released …
Continue reading

12 Jul 2023


Strike action taking place in July: Information for patients

Members of the Society of Radiographers will be holding 48 hours of strikes, from 8am on Tuesday 25 July to 8am on Thursday 27 July. The strike action will impact services at St George’s Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. This means that some planned care – …
Continue reading

11 Jul 2023


Statement regarding Wimbledon incident on 6 July 2023

For media enquiries only, please contact the St George’s press office via: 020 8266 6128 communications@stgeorges.nhs.uk ________ Statement issued at 1:30pm on 6 July 2023 Following an incident at a school in Wimbledon this morning, we are receiving a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist …
Continue reading

6 Jul 2023


Trust staff triumph at the NHS Parliamentary Awards

Congratulations to our staff for triumphing at the NHS Parliamentary awards today. We are delighted to announce that Charmaine Angela Case, Lead Clinical Specialist Nurse won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards. And she was joined by members of our Emergency Department and Homelessness Service who …
Continue reading

5 Jul 2023


Patients, staff and families share gratitude as Thank You Day gets under way

Sunday 2 July is the third annual Thank You Day – and St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group is asking people to join us in thanking our staff and volunteers for all their amazing work. The awareness event started off with a handful of organisations …
Continue reading

30 Jun 2023


Microbiology services now centralised at St George’s Hospital

The majority of South West London Pathology (SWLP) microbiology services for south west London and Surrey Downs have today (26 June) been centralised at St George’s Hospital to create a large and resilient microbiology service for primary and acute care in the area. This consolidation has been undertaken in order …
Continue reading

27 Jun 2023


Help us celebrate 75 years of the NHS

Share your stories  5 July 2023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service and we want you to help us celebrate this major milestone. Please get in touch and tell us your stories about St George’s. Whether you’ve worked for us, been a patient, or come from a family …
Continue reading

23 Jun 2023


Cardiac nurse wins national award for pioneering work with St George’s recognised as a ‘Centre of Excellence’

St George’s University Hospital has been recognised as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for a common and yet all too often mis-diagnosed heart rhythm condition. Carolyn Campbell-Cole, Lead Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist at St George’s has received this prestigious award in recognition of pioneering work for Implementation and Development of Non-Medical Led …
Continue reading

23 Jun 2023


Update on proposed new locations for children’s cancer centre for London and south east England 

In November 2022, St George’s submitted a bid to become the new Children’s Cancer Principal Treatment Centre covering south London, Kent, Medway, most of Surrey, East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. To make sure that everyone who wants to can share their view on the new centre, NHS England – London will soon reach out to children, teenagers, families, staff and communities to ask them how the consultation for this project should be designed.
Continue reading

21 Jun 2023 | Tags: #kidsdeservestgeorges


St George’s finalists in the NHS Parliamentary Awards

Two nominations from St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group have been shortlisted in The 2023 NHS Parliamentary Awards. Charmaine Angela Case a Breast Screening Clinical Nurse Specialist was shortlisted as an individual for Lifetime Achievement, while the St George’s Emergency Department & Homelessness Team was shortlisted for The Excellence …
Continue reading

15 Jun 2023


Record-breaking demand as emergency departments heat up, just hours before doctors’ strikes get under way

Visits to emergency departments (EDs) rocketed on Monday, with more people coming through the doors than ever before. More than 1,250 people went to one of St George’s, Epsom and St Helier’s three EDs – a rise on the previous record of 1,170, and a huge increase on a typical …
Continue reading

13 Jun 2023


Junior doctor strikes, 14-17 June: information for patients

The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), the trade unions for doctors in the UK, have announced that their members will be participating in strike action for 72 hours from 7am on Wednesday 14 June until 7am on Saturday 17 June.    The strike …
Continue reading

9 Jun 2023