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CQC publish report on our Maternity services
News & events | 17 Aug 2023
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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Emergency S2 Ep 2: London’s Major Trauma Network documentary continues
News & events | 16 Aug 2023
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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Emergency S2 Ep1: St George’s return to your screens
News & events | 15 Aug 2023
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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Plea to public ahead of fifth round of junior doctors’ strikes
News & events | 10 Aug 2023
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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Bereaved family donate life-saving equipment to St George’s Neonatal Unit in mum’s memory
News & events | 8 Aug 2023
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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Strike action during September and October: information for patients
News & events | 7 Aug 2023
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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St George’s staff mix with royalty and celebrities at NHS 75 party
News & events | 17 Jul 2023
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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Hospital group says fresh round of junior doctors’ strikes could prove most challenging yet
News & events | 12 Jul 2023
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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Families continue save and improve lives through deceased organ donation at St George’s Hospital
News & events | 12 Jul 2023
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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Strike action taking place in July: Information for patients
News & events | 11 Jul 2023
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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