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Patients, staff and families share gratitude as Thank You Day gets under way
News & events | 30 Jun 2023
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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Microbiology services now centralised at St George’s Hospital
News & events | 27 Jun 2023
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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Help us celebrate 75 years of the NHS
News & events | 23 Jun 2023
Share your stories 5 July 2023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service and we want you to help us celebrate this major milestone. Please get in touch and tell us your stories about St George’s. Whether you’ve worked for us, been a patient, or come from a family …
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Cardiac nurse wins national award for pioneering work with St George’s recognised as a ‘Centre of Excellence’
News & events | 23 Jun 2023
St George’s University Hospital has been recognised as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for a common and yet all too often mis-diagnosed heart rhythm condition. Carolyn Campbell-Cole, Lead Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist at St George’s has received this prestigious award in recognition of pioneering work for Implementation and Development of Non-Medical Led …
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Update on proposed new locations for children’s cancer centre for London and south east England
News & events | 21 Jun 2023 | Tags: #kidsdeservestgeorges
In November 2022, St George’s submitted a bid to become the new Children’s Cancer Principal Treatment Centre covering south London, Kent, Medway, most of Surrey, East Sussex and Brighton and Hove. To make sure that everyone who wants to can share their view on the new centre, NHS England – London will soon reach out to children, teenagers, families, staff and communities to ask them how the consultation for this project should be designed.
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St George’s finalists in the NHS Parliamentary Awards
News & events | 15 Jun 2023
Two nominations from St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group have been shortlisted in The 2023 NHS Parliamentary Awards. Charmaine Angela Case a Breast Screening Clinical Nurse Specialist was shortlisted as an individual for Lifetime Achievement, while the St George’s Emergency Department & Homelessness Team was shortlisted for The Excellence …
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Record-breaking demand as emergency departments heat up, just hours before doctors’ strikes get under way
News & events | 13 Jun 2023
Visits to emergency departments (EDs) rocketed on Monday, with more people coming through the doors than ever before. More than 1,250 people went to one of St George’s, Epsom and St Helier’s three EDs – a rise on the previous record of 1,170, and a huge increase on a typical …
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Junior doctor strikes, 14-17 June: information for patients
News & events | 9 Jun 2023
The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), the trade unions for doctors in the UK, have announced that their members will be participating in strike action for 72 hours from 7am on Wednesday 14 June until 7am on Saturday 17 June. The strike …
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Hospitals issue warning as weekend’s weather forecast looks more South of France than South London
News & events | 9 Jun 2023
Summer looks like it’s here at last – but with a surge in temperatures also meaning a surge in people visiting emergency departments, members of the public are urged to stay safe in the sun. Earlier this week the UK Health Security Agency and Met Office issued their first heat-health …
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Demand in hospitals expected to continue into third May Bank Holiday weekend
News & events | 26 May 2023
Thousands of NHS staff will be working tirelessly over the bank holiday weekend to care for those in urgent need in Surrey and south west London. Doctors, nurses, porters, and cleaners are among the 3,000-plus staff working on Monday at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health …
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