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C4 Emergency meet the team: Timothy Bishop, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Emergency series two continues at 9 pm on Channel 4 tomorrow night (Tuesday 22 August). We caught up with those in #TeamStGeorges that star on the show. Meet Tim Bishop, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Director for our surgical directorate. Describe your role – what’s involved in a typical day, …
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21 Aug 2023
CQC publish report on our Maternity services
As part of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) National Maternity Review programme, the CQC is inspecting all NHS acute hospital maternity services they have not been inspected and rated since April 2021. The CQC inspects services provided by healthcare providers against five domains – safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. …
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17 Aug 2023
Emergency S2 Ep 2: London’s Major Trauma Network documentary continues
In this second episode, 84 year-old Ralph is at St Mary’s Major Trauma Centre after falling at home and suffering a fracture down the entire length of his thigh bone that needs emergency surgery. Due to his medical history of heart and lung conditions, Ralph has been given a 50:50 …
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16 Aug 2023
Emergency S2 Ep1: St George’s return to your screens
St George’s is one of the four major trauma centres in London, and our teams have a starring role in Channel 4’s ‘Emergency’, which is back for its second series. In this first episode, London’s Air Ambulance, paramedics and fire crews are dispatched to 49 year-old Paiwand – a pedestrian …
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15 Aug 2023
Plea to public ahead of fifth round of junior doctors’ strikes
The number of postponed appointments on strike days has now topped 10,000 at one hospital group – and with a fresh wave of industrial action on the horizon, that figure is set to rise further. Junior doctors at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group will …
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10 Aug 2023
Bereaved family donate life-saving equipment to St George’s Neonatal Unit in mum’s memory
Specialists at St George’s Hospital’s Neonatal Unit saved Xander Bannerman’s life “on more than one occasion” when he was born 15 weeks early, weighing just 2 lb 11 oz. Now, seven years on, the youngster and his family have returned to reunite with the team and donate ventilators for premature …
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8 Aug 2023
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 – …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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27 Jun 2023