‘Stars at Bedtime’ launched for St George’s PICU

News & events | 15 Nov 2004 | Tags: picu

It was in 2002 when Archie Chilcott – a one year old baby – was admitted into the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, having a severe brain virus. His mum, Victoria spent hour upon hour reading stories to her little boy in the hope that …
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St George’s opens £4.6m Endoscopy Unit

News & events | 11 Nov 2004 | Tags: bowel cancer endoscopy lung

A £4.6M state-of-the-art centre for treating bowel and lung cancer has opened at St George’s Hospital, London, it was announced today. The new unit, which was built with funding from Wandsworth PCT, the Department of Health and the health charity Beating Bowel Cancer, will carry out more than 6,000 endoscopies …
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A&E sees 100pc of patients in 4 hours

News & events | 14 Oct 2004

FOR THE FIRST time ever, the A&E team at St George’s Hospital, Tooting has seen 100 per cent of patients within a target time of four hours. The record achievement, which occurred on two consecutive days last week, has been welcomed by the hospital as ‘a sign of fundamental change’ …
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Hospital in running for national award

News & events | 8 Oct 2004

THE CREATORS of an innovative software program that monitors mortality at St George’s Hospital, London have been named finalists in this year’s prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards. The unique software, developed by statistics expert Dr Jan Poloniecki and St George?s former medical director Professor Paul Jones, analyses mortality across …
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Hospital beds are bloomin’ Marvellous! – Hospital gardeners scoop top prize

News & events | 23 Sep 2004

GREEN-FINGERED groundsmen at St George’s Hospital have scooped a top, London-wide prize for gardening. Beating off horticultural competition from hospitals throughout the capital, a team of five gardeners from St George’s has won second place in the annual London Hospitals Gardens Competition run by the London Gardens Society. St George’s …
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Mexican Ministers spice up St George’s

News & events | 17 Sep 2004

THE TACOS AND TORTILLAS may have been missing but there was definitely a taste of Mexico down Tooting way last week (Thursday 16 September) when health ministers from the Central American country paid a special visit to St George’s Hospital. The delegation, led by Mexico’s Undersecretary of Innovation and Quality …
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Annual General Meeting 2003/04

News & events | 9 Sep 2004

You are all invited to our Annual General Meeting on: TUESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 5-7PM, MAIN FOYER, ATKINSON MORLEY WING ST GEORGE’S HOSPITAL 2003/04 has been a busy year for our staff. We have faced many challenges and achieved many successes. We would like to share that success with you and …
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St George’s appoints new medical directors

News & events | 7 Sep 2004

PATIENT CARE at St George’s Hospital received a boost last week following the news that the trust has appointed three leading consultants to form a new team of medical directors. Consultants Mike Bailey, Patricia Hamilton and Chris Streather – each of whom used to be clinical directors at the hospital …
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St George’s named pioneer site for hand hygiene

News & events | 1 Sep 2004

ST GEORGE’S Hospital has been named a pioneer site as part of a national campaign to stop patients catching infections while staying in hospital. The ‘clean your hands’ campaign, launched today by health minister Lord Warner, hopes to improve hand hygiene among doctors and nurses in a bid to prevent …
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Patient poll shows care improves at St George’s

News & events | 24 Aug 2004

A POLL OF PATIENTS has found the care at St George’s Hospital to be better than two years ago, according to newly released figures. The number of patients who thought care was “excellent” at the Tooting-based Trust jumped from nearly 30 per cent in 2002 to just over 40 per …
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