Hospital group says fresh round of junior doctors’ strikes could prove most challenging yet

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

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

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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Statement regarding Wimbledon incident on 6 July 2023

Statement regarding Wimbledon incident on 6 July 2023

News & events | 6 Jul 2023

For media enquiries only, please contact the St George’s press office via: 020 8266 6128 communications@stgeorges.nhs.uk ________ Statement issued at 1:30pm on 6 July 2023 Following an incident at a school in Wimbledon this morning, we are receiving a number of patients who are being cared for by our specialist …
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Trust staff triumph at the NHS Parliamentary Awards

Trust staff triumph at the NHS Parliamentary Awards

News & events | 5 Jul 2023

Congratulations to our staff for triumphing at the NHS Parliamentary awards today. We are delighted to announce that Charmaine Angela Case, Lead Clinical Specialist Nurse won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards. And she was joined by members of our Emergency Department and Homelessness Service who …
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Patients, staff and families share gratitude as Thank You Day gets under way

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

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

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’

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 

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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