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St George’s Day competition winners announced!

St George’s Day competition winners announced!

News & events | 24 Apr 2015 | Tags: competition helipad patient stories St George's Day staff examples winners

Last week we launched a special St George’s Day competition asking for people to tell us why St George’s Hospital is special to them. We were inundated with entries from staff, friends, relatives, past and present patients. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to make a submission. …
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Tell us why St George’s is special to you and you could win a helipad tour!

Tell us why St George’s is special to you and you could win a helipad tour!

News & events | 16 Apr 2015 | Tags: Celebrate competition helipad St George's St George's Day

To mark St George’s day we’re asking you to tweet, Facebook or email us with your stories, poems or photos of why St George’s is special to you…
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Stroke patient flown to St George’s for urgent treatment

Stroke patient flown to St George’s for urgent treatment

News & events | 24 Mar 2015 | Tags: helipad KSS Stroke thrombectomy

St George’s received its first hospital transfer stroke patient by air last week. Kent Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance were called to transfer a stroke patient from the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford to St Georges Hospital last week. The patient had failed to respond to his initial treatment and needed …
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St George’s has received its 100th helipad patient

St George’s has received its 100th helipad patient

News & events | 23 Sep 2014 | Tags: Boris Johnson helipad HELP appeal major trauma patient

St George’s has received its 100th helipad patient.
The patient who was involved in a road traffic accident needed emergency medical care and was flown to the hospital’s major trauma centre on September 14th.

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An inspector calls …

News & events | 10 Jan 2014 | Tags: Care Quality Commission Foundation Trust helipad

2013 was quite a year for St George’s and 2014 promises to be equally exciting. In 12 months I hope to be blogging about becoming a Foundation Trust; our new helipad; plans for bigger and better facilities and a faster time for me than last year in the London marathon! …
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Helipad construction gets off the ground

Helipad construction gets off the ground

News & events | 9 Aug 2013 | Tags: helipad HELP

The biggest crane in the UK has been assembled at St George’s Hospital in Tooting where it is helping to build a helipad.
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St George’s to build South London’s first hospital helipad

St George’s to build South London’s first hospital helipad

News & events | 18 Sep 2012 | Tags: Heather Jarman helipad HELP

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust announced today, Tuesday 18th September, that it has been granted formal planning permission to develop a helipad at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. It will be only the second hospital helipad in London and the first south of the river. The development will be partly funded through a grant of £1million from the County Air Ambulance Trust HELP (Helicopter Emergency Landing Pad) Appeal.
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