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Brain/CNS Tumours
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 21 Dec 2023 | Tags: brain tumour MDT neurosurgery referral
Patients with a first diagnosis of suspected brain or CNS tumour must be referred via the on call neurosurgery service and referred for discussion in the weekly Brain/CNS MDT meeting. This includes suspected cases of: Primary brain tumour (e.g. low grade glioma, glioblastoma) Brain metastasis Meningioma Pineal region tumour Intradural spinal …
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Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit
| Updated 3 Apr 2025
The CMR unit at St George’s Hospital performs over 2000 cardiovascular scans per annum in patients with inherited and acquired cardiac disease. The cardiac MRI is a specialised MRI scan requiring specifically trained radiographers and cardiologists. Referrals are generally from cardiologists and cardiac surgeons but can also be taken from …
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Cardiac Sarcoid Clinic
| Updated 10 May 2025
Our Cardiac Sarcoid Clinic specialises in diagnosing and managing sarcoidosis, particularly when it affects the heart. We provide comprehensive care to manage this rare condition, which involves inflammation and immune cell clusters in various organs.
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Echocardiography Department
| Updated 11 Jun 2020
The Echocardiography Department at St George’s was founded in 1971 and has developed a national and international reputation. The Echocardiography Department is one of the largest in the United Kingdom and performs annually at least 20,000 transthoracic echocardiograms, 1700 stress echocardiograms and more then 600 transoesophageal studies. We aim to provide …
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New Beginnings on social media
| Updated 28 Mar 2019
You can keep up to date with the latest developments in the New Beginnings programme via our twitter feed.
Joint Staff – Womens’ Event Nov 21 2018
| Updated 3 May 2019
Staff and mothers gathered to view films of all of them describing their experiences of birth in theatre. They then worked together to discuss what resonated most for them and which areas they most felt they could put their time and effort into pursuing as improvement co-design projects. Our mothers …
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Women’s Event Oct 10 2018
| Updated 5 May 2019
Previously in the project mothers who had given birth in an operating theatre at St George’s were interviewed talking about their experiences. At this event the women got together to view short edited films covering the major themes raised during these interviews. They then discussed what they thought were the …
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Training in EBCD for New Beginnings teams Jan 23 2018
| Updated 5 May 2019
During December we made a series of observations in theatres to help guide the project. These observations have been analysed within the team and we are now ready to start interviewing staff and mothers. We also ran some training with the Point of Care Foundation on January 23rd 2018 so …
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Motor Neurone Disease
Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 1 May 2023
The Motor Nerve Clinic at St. George’s Hospital diagnoses and manages patients with motor neurone disease (MND) and related disorders. It is our aim to treat patients with MND holistically, by strengthening links with multi-disciplinary teams in the community in Southwest London and Surrey and work closely with other specialties …
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Acute Oncology
| Updated 22 Dec 2021
This service is available to any St George’s Hospital patient who has cancer and is currently receiving chemotherapy, radiotherapy or immunotherapy. For support and information visit the Acute Oncology Service