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Important information regarding NHS cyber-attack: St George’s not affected

Trust emails were suspended temporarily as a precaution, however we can confirm they are now restored to normal.
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14 May 2017

Public events about death, dying and bereavement: 8-10 May

St George’s is proud to be involved with Dying Matters Awareness Week and there are four events that patients and the public can attend. The aim of the week is to help people talk more openly about death, dying and bereavement, and the theme this year is What Can You …
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2 May 2017 | Tags: Dying Matters Awareness Week end of life care

Team of 22 save woman and her unborn baby at St George’s

A 22 strong team has saved the life of a mother and her unborn baby after a major heart and aortic defect was detected during screening.
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2 May 2017 | Tags: caesarean cardiac emergency Intensive care neonatal unit surgery

Dr Mark Hamilton awarded a GenerationQ fellowship

Associate Medical Director for Quality Improvement and Clinical Transformation at St George’s, Dr Mark Hamilton, has been selected for the Health Foundation’s GenerationQ leadership programme. He is one of 18 senior health care professionals in the UK to join the prestigious fellowship, designed to develop a new generation of skilled and …
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28 Apr 2017 | Tags: Associate Medical Director Dr Mark Hamilton GenerationQ leadership Medical Director senior health care

Fendi Fashion House donates artwork to St George’s

Earlier this month, the Spiritual Care Centre at St George’s unveiled a stunning new piece of art, donated by artist Chris Wood and the Fendi Fashion House. The Italian luxury designer brand commissioned Chris to create a series of artworks to be displayed in their shop windows around the world. …
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28 Apr 2017 | Tags: Art artwork Fendi Spiritual Care Centre St George's Hospital Charity

Harbhajan Singh Brar appointed as Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development at St George’s

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Harbhajan Singh Brar as its new Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development. Harbhajan will join St George’s next week on Tuesday, 2 May. He joins St George’s from Sodexo UK, where he has been Director of Human Resources since 2011. Harbhajan has …
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27 Apr 2017

St George’s cardiac team gets Royal seal of approval at London marathon

Experts from St George’s Hospital were on hand at the London Marathon last weekend to deal with any medical emergencies as over 40,000 runners took part in Britain’s largest sporting event.
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26 Apr 2017

Andrew Grimshaw appointed St George’s new Chief Financial Officer

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Andrew Grimshaw as its new Chief Financial Officer. Andrew is currently Director of Finance at London Ambulance Service (LAS), a position he has held since January 2013. He has also been Acting Chief Executive at LAS since January this year. Prior …
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21 Apr 2017

James Friend to join executive team at St George’s

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed James Friend as Director of Delivery, Efficiency and Transformation.

James joins St George’s from the Department of Health, where he is currently an advisor to the Secretary of State for Health.

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19 Apr 2017

St George’s leads the way in new treatment for stroke patients

An emergency treatment for stroke patients used at St George’s Hospital is being rolled out to other centres across the UK, benefiting an estimated 8,000 patients.

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11 Apr 2017 | Tags: nhs st george's hospital Stroke stroke rehabilitation thrombectomy

A sneak peek into tonight’s episode of 24 Hours in A&E “Candle in the Wind”

The RTS award-winning documentary series returns for a twelfth series following patients treated in the same 24 hour period at St George’s in south west London. The hospital has one of the most advanced and busiest A&E departments in the world. It’s a place where stories of life, love and …
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10 Apr 2017 | Tags: #24HrsAE Channel 4 st george's hospital

Renowned Neonatal Unit opens its doors in bid to recruit nurses

St George’s Hospital’s record-breaking Neonatal Unit is launching a drive to recruit more nurses – and is opening its doors to show how the team cares for some of the sickest babies in the country. The Neonatal team recently hit the headlines after caring for St George’s youngest-ever patient, Abiageal …
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4 Apr 2017

A sneak peek into tonight’s episode of 24 Hours in A&E “Boys will be boys”

The RTS award-winning documentary series returns for a twelfth series following patients treated in the same 24 hour period at St George’s in south west London. The hospital has one of the busiest A&E departments in Britain – under more pressure than ever.  It’s a place where stories of life, …
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3 Apr 2017 | Tags: #24HrsAE 24 hours in A&E Channel 4 Emergency Department major trauma centre

A sneak peek into tonight’s episode of 24 Hours in A&E “Stand by your man”

The RTS award-winning documentary series returns for a twelfth series following patients treated in the same 24 hour period at St George’s in south west London. The hospital has one of the busiest A&E departments in Britain – under more pressure than ever. It’s a place where stories of life, …
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27 Mar 2017 | Tags: 24 hours in A&E a&e Channel 4 Emergency Department major trauma

Bringing the theatre back to the operating theatre

Our plastic surgery team at St George’s streamed live operations – with fully consenting patients for the purpose of education and development – to a captivated audience of medical undergraduates from St George’s, University of London for the first time earlier this year.

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24 Mar 2017