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Briefing: Midwifery staffing workforce review
Summary As part of creating an expanded maternity workforce which is sustainable and safe, a formal staff consultation has been carried out into the skill mix within midwifery. This consultation is about net investment in our maternity service, which will increase the number of midwives and improve quality. Evidence clearly …
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27 Jun 2012
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust passes annual cancer targets
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has passed all national cancer treatment and diagnosis targets for 2011/12, improving the prospects for thousands of cancer patients. Figures published by the Department of Health showed over 95 per cent of patients with suspected cancer were seen at St George’s Hospital, Tooting …
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25 Jun 2012
Chief executive blog sheds a light on inner workings of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Miles Scott, chief executive, has launched a new blog on the St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust website to give our staff, patients, members and stakeholders more of an insight into how the trust works. In his first blog Miles talks about the hard work across the trust to …
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22 Jun 2012
BMA industrial action, 21st June 2012
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been working closely with doctors to ensure that any impact on patients, due to industrial action by members of the British Medical Association, is minimised today, Thursday 21st June 2012. As anticipated, there is no significant impact on our services and thanks to …
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21 Jun 2012
Art exhibition shows Bolingbroke in new light
A new contemporary art exhibition inspired by the former Bolingbroke Hospital will open to the public at Contemporary Applied Arts in central London W1T 1DD from 15th June until 21st July. ‘The Bolingbroke Hospital: A view backwards’ is a collaboration between Arts St George’s (formerly known as Arts for the Teaching and …
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12 Jun 2012
St George’s consultant elected President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Jean-Pierre van Besouw, consultant anaesthetist at St George’s Hospital, has been elected President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom. Jean-Pierre, known to friends and colleagues as J-P, qualified in 1981 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He …
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1 Jun 2012
Putting patients first
All of our performance indicators are important measures of how we are doing as a trust, but amongst the many performance indicators that NHS organisations have to report, I pay particularly close attention to are those that very clearly relate to patient experience. It is vital that we never stop …
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1 Jun 2012
Chief Executive’s Blog, introduction to
I’ll be using this blog to give our staff, patients, members and stakeholders a bit more of an insight into how St George’s Healthcare works. I hope to be able to shine a light on why and how decisions are made about the future of the trust as well as …
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31 May 2012
Emergency Department staff urge Jubilee care
Emergency Department staff at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, are asking local people to be careful over the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend, especially if they are hanging out the street bunting, planning a barbecue or doing a spot of gardening. The soaring temperatures that London enjoyed last weekend coincided with over 40 …
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30 May 2012
Generous surgery gift will help St George’s babies
St George’s Hospital, London, has received two neonatal laparoscopic instrument sets, which will be the first to be used in the UK. The sets, which cost over £20,000, were bought by the Baby Isaac Fund, founded by Ian and Cristina Villiers in 2010 as a legacy for their son Isaac, …
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30 May 2012
St George’s baby charity receives £30,000 boost from Martine McCutcheon and Jack McManus
St George’s Hospital welcomed actress Martine McCutcheon and her fiancé Jack McManus on Wednesday 23rd May as they presented a £30,000 cheque won for the hospital’s neonatal charity, First Touch. As patrons of First Touch, Martine and Jack visited the neonatal unit and spent time talking with parents and staff. The …
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21 May 2012
New finance lead for St George’s
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, has appointed Steven Bolam to the position of director of finance, performance and informatics. Steven, who is currently director of finance and performance at Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCTs, will take up his new post in September. Steven has …
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21 May 2012
St George’s breast cancer service wins national improvement award
The breast cancer service team at St George’s Hospital, London, has won an NHS Improvement award for reducing the amount of time that patients spend in hospital following surgery. In January 2011 the team introduced a new 23-hour discharge model for breast cancer patients. As a result there has been …
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18 May 2012
A single pathology service for south west London announced
The chief executives of each of the four hospital trusts in south west London have today announced plans to join forces to develop a single pathology service for south west London. The four chief executive have released the following joint statement on behalf of the south west London pathology programme …
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18 May 2012
St George’s Nurse of the Year awards celebrate staff dedication
International Nurses’ Day was celebrated at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on Friday 11th May with the trust’s annual Nurse of the Year awards. Awards presented include Nurse of the Year, Midwife of the Year, Healthcare Assistant of the Year and Mentor of the Year. All award nominations were …
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16 May 2012