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An emotional award for Edi
At St George’s we share a vision of improving the health of our patients and local community. We keep patients at the heart of everything that we do with our values designed to inspire our staff: Kind • Look after our patients as we would like to be looked after …
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10 Apr 2015
Nick’s moonwalk to recovery
In December 2014 St George’s purchased an anti-gravity treadmill to help better treat patients like Nick. The machine is designed to enable patients to exercise at reduced gravity meaning there is less weight being placed on their injured limb. It can be set-up anywhere between 20-100% gravity with 20% being likened to walking on the moon.
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7 Apr 2015
Looking to the future with ’24 Hours in A&E’
This week’s episode focuses on patients and families who try to look to the future, rather than dwelling on the past.
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31 Mar 2015
Strong bonds forged on ’24 Hours in A&E’
This week’s episode focuses on families whose strong bonds have been forged through the worst that life can throw at them.
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25 Mar 2015
Stroke patient flown to St George’s for urgent treatment
St George’s received its first hospital transfer stroke patient by air last week. Kent Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance were called to transfer a stroke patient from the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford to St Georges Hospital last week. The patient had failed to respond to his initial treatment and needed …
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24 Mar 2015
St George’s to become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for non-invasive prenatal screening
Leading London NHS trust teams up with Premaitha Health to create the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for non-invasive prenatal screening.
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23 Mar 2015
Guardian angels on ’24 Hours in A&E’
This week’s episode focuses on patients and their families who feel like a guardian angel has watched over them at a crucial time.
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17 Mar 2015
Nutrition and Hydration Week 2015 is here!
Find out what we’ll be doing to support this internationally renowned awareness campaign
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16 Mar 2015
John feels the wonder of the da Vinci robot
St George’s has been reported to be the hospital carrying out the highest number of partial nephrectomies using the da Vinci® Surgical System.
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12 Mar 2015
St George’s tackles false fire alarms on site
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest single-site hospitals in the UK. Due to the size of our site the trust has chosen to operate under an automatic fire system which triggers an immediate call to the fire brigade when an alarm is activated. Recent …
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11 Mar 2015
Broken bones and broken relationships in ’24 Hours in A&E’
This week’s episode focuses on patients recovering from broken bones as well as broken relationships.
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10 Mar 2015
Flowers from the Queen delight visitors and staff
Staff at St George’s Hospital were surprised and delighted to receive a call from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to say that Her Majesty the Queen wanted to donate some flowers to us.
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5 Mar 2015
More drama with ’24 Hours in A&E’ this week
We’re back for another 60-minutes of A&E drama this Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 4. This week the episode focuses on a group of women who come into the department needing treatment for a variety of illnesses and trauma.
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4 Mar 2015
St George’s trains the Sky1 TV stars at a ‘Critical’ bootcamp
Sky 1’s ‘Critical’ contacted St George’s for guidance on medical accuracy. Dr Heather Jarman, Consultant Nurse in Emergency Care at St George’s offered to provide training for the 23-strong cast and crew.
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3 Mar 2015
Parents, children and partners on ’24 Hours in A&E’
This week’s episode was scheduled to be the last in the current series. However, we know it’s still cold outside and you need some St George’s A&E drama to warm your heart and keep things cosy on a midweek evening so we’re going to keep the episodes coming
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24 Feb 2015