Press releases
Enhancing the healing environment at HMP Wandsworth
Thursday 27th January 2011 saw the unveiling of the newly refurbished central health unit at Wandsworth Prison. The unit has been completely overhauled, with what was formerly considered a grey, soulless, drab and depressing environment replaced by a vibrant and comfortable setting which has helped to encourage inmates to access … Continue reading
1 Feb 2011
Local children say hello to the national year of communication with balloon launch at Wandsworth Museum
The St George’s Healthcare community speech and language promotion and prevention team launched Hello, the 2011 national year of communication campaign, with a star studded ‘words will take you far’ balloon launch at Wandsworth Museum on 28th January 2011. The balloons were released by children from local day and community … Continue reading
31 Jan 2011 | Tags: national year of communication
Healthy eating event feeds public interest
More than 200 local people attended St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust’s first member event on Wednesday 19th January entitled Nutrition in a nutshell – how to eat healthy and live longer by Catherine Collins, principal dietitian. This was the first in a series of special member events aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles. … Continue reading
27 Jan 2011 | Tags: Catherine Collins principal dietitian
St George’s Hospital combat winter flu pandemic with new one hour test
St. George’s Hospital is coping well under the enormous pressures of the winter flu season thanks to a new rapid test that has enabled the microbiology and virology laboratories and the infection control team to offer round-the-clock services. The Xpert Flu test, which runs on Cepheid’s GeneXpert System, simultaneously detects … Continue reading
14 Jan 2011 | Tags: winter flu
St George’s commended for emergency training innovation
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has been commended by the London Deanery for a pioneering initiative that has seen a major trauma manikin introduced in an emergency environment. A new simulation room has been located in the accident and emergency department at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. The new facility, the … Continue reading
7 Jan 2011 | Tags: emergency training innovation pioneering initiative simulation room
New Associate Non-Executive Director appointed
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust Chair, Naaz Coker, has announced Sarah Wilton will be joining the trust as Associate Non Executive Director on 1 January 2011. Sarah is joining St George’s Healthcare from NHS Wandsworth, where she had been non executive director since April 2007. At NHS Wandsworth, Sarah was … Continue reading
22 Dec 2010 | Tags: Associate Non Executive Director Sarah Wilton
Warm reunion as ‘home away from home’ celebrates fifth year in Tooting
It was a warm reunion as staff and guests celebrated the five-year anniversary of Ronald McDonald House in Tooting this week. Ronald McDonald House staff were pleased to welcome back the Stone family, who stayed at the house in February 2010 when their nine-day-old baby, Sarah, was admitted to St … Continue reading
17 Dec 2010 | Tags: Elizabeth Stone Ronald McDonald House Sadiq Khan warm reunion
Queen Mary’s Hospital archivist receives Civic Award in recognition of saving local history
Gordon Jones, chairman of the Queen Mary’s Hospital archive and museum group, was honoured by the Mayor of Wandsworth with a Civic Award at a glitzy town hall ceremony in November in recognition of the significant contribution he has made to life of the borough. 10 years ago Gordon took … Continue reading
19 Nov 2010 | Tags: archivist Civic Award Gordon Jones recognition
Bionic ear inventor meets young cochlear patients at St George’s Hospital
On Wednesday morning children from across South West London and Surrey who have had their lives transformed by a cochlear implant, or bionic ear, got the chance to meet the device’s inventor Professor Graeme Clark at St George’s Hospital. Professor Clark met several children and their families, including seven year … Continue reading
10 Nov 2010 | Tags: Bionic ear cochlear implant Professor Graeme Clark
Local MP becomes St George’s 1000th Foundation Trust member
Tooting MP Sadiq Khan has become the 1000th member of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and is supporting its plans to become a Foundation Trust (FT) in 2011. As a FT St George’s will remain fully within the NHS but will have greater financial freedom to develop facilities and services … Continue reading
15 Oct 2010 | Tags: 1000th member Sadiq Khan
St George’s Healthcare gets energised about energy
St George’s Healthcare staff, patients and visitors renewed their commitment to cutting carbon at a special one-day event, Get Energised About Energy, held on Friday 8th October. The event marked a six-month milestone in the trust’s 10:10 campaign. Patients, visitors and staff pledged their support by signing the 10:10 banner, which will … Continue reading
8 Oct 2010 | Tags: cutting carbon David Astley Energised About Energy reducing carbon
Community Services Wandsworth to merge with St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
The boards of NHS Wandsworth and St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust have given their approval for Community Services Wandsworth (CSW) to merge with St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust from 1st October 2010. The merger will offer local residents high quality, seamless healthcare from hospital to home. St George’s Healthcare, named … Continue reading
South London’s first patient panel for inflammatory bowel disease sufferers to be launched at St George’s Hospital
A group of health professionals and patients from South London aims to establish the area’s first independent patient panel for people suffering from debilitating bowel conditions, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The new panel at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, will be launched at a public event on 16th … Continue reading
30 Sep 2010 | Tags: bowel colitis Crohn’s inflammatory inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative ulcerative colitis
St George’s report celebrates success of 2009/10
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has published its 2009/10 report and accounts, summarising key activity and achievements during the last financial year. The report examines the leading-edge care the trust provides to the local community and highlights how patients from across the country also benefit from its specialist … Continue reading
22 Sep 2010 | Tags: accounts report report and accounts
Simulation brings trauma training to life
Trauma staff at St George’s Hospital, London, are benefiting from a new state-of-the-art simulation manikin, SimMan 3G, designed to teach and test staff working with severely injured patients. The £60,000 manikin, funded through a bid to NHS London, is completely wireless and self contained making it is easy to transport … Continue reading
21 Sep 2010 | Tags: simulation training trauma trauma training
St George’s to build state-of-the-art breast unit
A new Breast Diagnostic Unit, is to be opened at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, it was announced today (7th September 2010). St George’s is a regional cancer centre and its clinical results for breast screening are among the best in London. The trust has identified a site for a modern … Continue reading
7 Sep 2010 | Tags: Breast Breast Diagnostic Unit state-of-the-art
St George’s Annual General Meeting 2010
2009/10 saw St George’s recognised for its high standards of patient safety with the trust named by Dr Foster Intelligence as its `Large Trust of the Year 2009.` Our plans to become a Foundation Trust by 2011 continued to take shape and we were chosen as the preferred provider to … Continue reading
24 Aug 2010 | Tags: AGM Annual General Meeting Dr Foster Foundation Trust
Sale of Bolingbroke will improve care for Wandsworth residents
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is moving ahead with plans to sell the site of the former Bolingbroke Hospital within the current 2010/11 financial year. The sale is expected to raise millions of pounds which will be invested in improving healthcare for the 1.3 million people that St George’s serves … Continue reading
24 Aug 2010 | Tags: bolingbroke sale sell
Stroke services rated country’s best in national audit
Stroke services at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in Tooting, southwest London, have been rated the best in the country in results from a national audit released today. The National Sentinel Audit for Stroke, organised by the Royal College of Physicians, assesses quality of care by looking at the process … Continue reading
19 Aug 2010 | Tags: national audit services Stroke
St George’s rare cancer care wins national award
The prestigious Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope has been awarded to consultant urological surgeon Mr Nick Watkin from St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London, in recognition of his work in male genital reconstruction and penile cancer. St George’s is a specialist centre for penile cancer, a rare condition affecting around 400 … Continue reading
13 Jul 2010 | Tags: award Karl-Storz-Harold national rare cancer Telescope
