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St George’s Hospital combat winter flu pandemic with new one hour test
News & events | 14 Jan 2011 | Tags: winter flu
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 …
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St George’s commended for emergency training innovation
News & events | 7 Jan 2011 | Tags: emergency training innovation pioneering initiative simulation room
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 …
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New Associate Non-Executive Director appointed
News & events | 22 Dec 2010 | Tags: Associate Non Executive Director Sarah Wilton
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 …
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Warm reunion as ‘home away from home’ celebrates fifth year in Tooting
News & events | 17 Dec 2010 | Tags: Elizabeth Stone Ronald McDonald House Sadiq Khan warm reunion
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 …
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Queen Mary’s Hospital archivist receives Civic Award in recognition of saving local history
News & events | 19 Nov 2010 | Tags: archivist Civic Award Gordon Jones recognition
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 …
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Bionic ear inventor meets young cochlear patients at St George’s Hospital
News & events | 10 Nov 2010 | Tags: Bionic ear cochlear implant Professor Graeme Clark
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 …
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Local MP becomes St George’s 1000th Foundation Trust member
News & events | 15 Oct 2010 | Tags: 1000th member Sadiq Khan
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 …
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St George’s Healthcare gets energised about energy
News & events | 8 Oct 2010 | Tags: cutting carbon David Astley Energised About Energy reducing carbon
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 …
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Community Services Wandsworth to merge with St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
News & events | 1 Oct 2010 | Tags: CSW merge merger
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 …
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South London’s first patient panel for inflammatory bowel disease sufferers to be launched at St George’s Hospital
News & events | 30 Sep 2010 | Tags: bowel colitis Crohn’s inflammatory inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative ulcerative colitis
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 …
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