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BBC documentary on vaccine hesitancy features St George’s experts
News & events | 21 Jul 2022
St George’s features in a BBC Two documentary, Unvaccinated, looking at vaccine hesitancy this week.
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Great British Bake Off star officially opens new scoliosis scanner at St George’s
News & events | 23 Dec 2021
Bake Off star Alice Fevronia – who had scoliosis as a teenager – officially opened a new scoliosis scanner and judged a charity bake off event raising £437 at St George’s Hospital last week. Scoliosis is a condition where the spine twists and curves to the side causing a progressive …
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Mum of twins launches book to raise awareness of rare condition
News & events | 3 Mar 2022
A mum tributes specialist doctors at St George’s for saving her identical twins’ lives in her new book which launches today (Thursday 3 March) on the second annual International TAPS Awareness Day.
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Sticky solution to deadly lung problem
News & events | 16 Nov 2009 | Tags: BioGlue cardiothoracic team lung surgery
A revolutionary procedure that uses surgical BioGlue to prevent potentially life-threatening infection in lung surgery patients has been successfully carried out by a cardiothoracic team at St George’s Hospital, London. [1] Patients who undergo surgery on a lung can be susceptible to infection via a bronchopleural fistula, a hole that …
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Name our new breast diagnostic unit
News & events | 10 Jun 2011 | Tags: Breast Diagnostic Unit
St George’s Hospital is a regional cancer centre and its clinical results for breast screening are among the best in London. To modernise the service a stand-alone facility providing state-of-the-art technology for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and other breast diseases is under development and …
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Antibiotic use aids MRSA spread in hospital and infection control measures do little to prevent it, says hospital study
News & events | 20 Sep 2012 | Tags: antibiotics Dr Lindsay Dr Tim Planche MRSA
The use of a commonly prescribed antibiotic is a major contributor to the spread of infection in hospitals by the ‘superbug’ MRSA, according to new research. The study also found that increasing measures to prevent infection – such as improved hygiene and hand washing – appeared to have only a small effect on reducing MRSA infection rates during the period studied.
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Innovative motor neurone disease trial opens at St George’s
News & events | 4 Aug 2021
The motor neurone disease clinical drugs trial, MND-SMART, has today opened to participants in London.
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How the NHS and care services use your information
News & events | 19 Apr 2021
St George’s is one of many organisations working in the health and care system to improve care for patients and the public. Whenever you use a health or care service, such as attending Accident & Emergency or using Community Care services, important information about you is collected in a patient …
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St George’s Wins £98,796 To Deliver Net Zero Emissions NHS Through ‘Dora’ System for Cancer Patients
News & events | 26 Jan 2022
Tooting based St George’s Hospital has been awarded £98,796 by SBRI Healthcare to support an historic drive to deliver a net zero NHS. ‘Dora’ won St George’s the funds, it is an autonomous clinical assistant that can telephone hospital patients as an alternative to clinical visits, meaning patients don’t have …
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Celebrating St George’s Professor Indranil Chakravorty being awarded MBE
News & events | 17 Jun 2022
Congratulations are due for Professor Indranil Chakravorty who has been awarded an MBE for his enormous contributions to healthcare as part of the Queen’s platinum jubilee honours. Professor Chakravorty is a very accomplished man, being: Chair of British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin; a Consultant Physician at St George’s …
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