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An emotional award for Edi
News & events | 10 Apr 2015 | Tags: awards Miles Scott patient experience values
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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Nick’s moonwalk to recovery
News & events | 7 Apr 2015 | Tags: a&e anti-gravity treadmill Motorbike physiotherapy Sky Crisis Sky1 trauma
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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Looking to the future with ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 31 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours 24 Hours A&E car accident major trauma
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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Strong bonds forged on ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 25 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours 24 Hours A&E 24 hours in A&E episode 12 Series 8 strong bonds
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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Stroke patient flown to St George’s for urgent treatment
News & events | 24 Mar 2015 | Tags: helipad KSS Stroke thrombectomy
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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St George’s to become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for non-invasive prenatal screening
News & events | 23 Mar 2015
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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Guardian angels on ’24 Hours in A&E’
News & events | 17 Mar 2015 | Tags: 24 Hours A&E cancer guardian angels Paediatrics seris 8
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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Nutrition and Hydration Week 2015 is here!
News & events | 16 Mar 2015
Find out what we’ll be doing to support this internationally renowned awareness campaign
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John feels the wonder of the da Vinci robot
News & events | 12 Mar 2015 | Tags: da Vinci kidney partial nephrectomy robotic surgery urology world kidney day
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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St George’s tackles false fire alarms on site
News & events | 11 Mar 2015 | Tags: false alarms fire alarms Fire Brigade new training
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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