News & events | 15 Feb 2022
Filmed during the autumn of 2020, the RTS award-winning documentary series returns for a twenty sixth series following patients treated in the same 24-hour period at St George’s in south west London. The hospital has one of the busiest A&E departments in Britain – a place where stories of life, love and …
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News & events | 9 Feb 2022
St George’s nurse, Marlene Johnson, has been selected as one of the BBC London’s Top 100 Champions. The 100 Lives series is part of the BBC’s celebrations for their 100 year anniversary. Marlene was selected due to the outstanding, selfless work that she does, both as part of her profession …
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News & events | 8 Feb 2022
75-year-old Bipin is in Resus suffering from a stroke. Meanwhile 80-year-old Myra is in A&E with a head injury after falling off her bicycle. Emergency Nurse Practitioner Louise has been nursing for almost 40 years and opens up about how personal challenges in her own life have taught her a …
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News & events | 7 Feb 2022
Professor Sir Mike Richards recently visited Queen Mary’s Hospital to see the new community diagnostic centre. Sir Mike Richards has held a number of roles at both NHS England and the Department of Health, and most recently published a review of diagnostic services as part of NHS England’s Long Term …
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News & events | 1 Feb 2022
The RTS award-winning documentary series returns for a twenty sixth series following patients treated in the same 24-hour period at St George’s in South West London. The hospital has one of the busiest A&E departments in Britain – a place where stories of life, love and loss unfold every day. This episode …
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News & events | 30 Jan 2022
A new state-of-the-art blood testing laboratory, capable of running 100,000 tests a day, was officially opened at St Helier hospital yesterday. Patients from across south west London will now get quicker results from common and specialist blood tests. The open plan laboratory has the most up-to-date technology, which will allow …
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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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News & events | 25 Jan 2022
Lost in Translation is the second episode of series 26 of 24 Hours in A&E. This episode explores the ingenious techniques the medical staff at St George’s use to communicate complex information to their patients. We see how they transcend every obstacle from dealing with dementia patients to language barriers. 49-year-old …
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News & events | 24 Jan 2022
Nineteen-year-old Tik-Tok star Katie was among the first patients in the UK to receive the new antiviral Covid treatment, Sotrovimab, when St George’s began offering the treatment in December. The treatment is a monoclonal antibody infusion which allows people who test positive for Covid-19 and are immunosuppressed, meaning they would …
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News & events | 18 Jan 2022
This episode – the first of the 26th series – looks at our accomplishments and our experiences and how they shape the people we become and ultimately the legacies we leave behind.
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