Tagged: Miles Scott

New Year letter to staff

News & events | 3 Jan 2013 | Tags: a&e award community services education Foundation Trust Francis Inquiry improvement inspection Miles Scott partnerships staff

2012 was a momentous year for the country and also for St George’s. The Jubilee and then the Olympics caught our imagination and brought people together as well as heralding unprecedented sporting success.

At St George’s we continued our proud tradition of providing excellent patient care. The Dr Foster Hospital Guide once again identified St George’s as one of a handful of Trusts to have statistically significant low mortality rates, a key marker of quality and safety.
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Arthur Smith helps celebrate staff achievement

News & events | 18 Dec 2012 | Tags: Arthur Smith awards Christp Miles Scott staff

Comedian Arthur Smith brought sparkle and laughter to St George’s annual staff awards as compère for the event which was held on Thursday, 13th December.

Hosted by Christopher Smallwood, chairman, and Miles Scott, chief executive, the dinner honoured staff who have given 25 years’ service to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as the trust’s 2012 special achievement award winners. Volunteers who have given 10 years’ service to St George’s were also recognised.
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BreckerWire designed to enhance patient safety

News & events | 14 Dec 2012 | Tags: BreckerWIre cardiac Dr Stephen Brecker Miles Scott TAVI

A consultant cardiologist at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has designed an innovative device with the aim of reducing the risk of complications during cardiac interventions. Known as the BreckerWire, the device is a new design of intracardiac guidewire developed by Dr Stephen Brecker, a cardiologist at St George’s since 1996.
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Community Open Day at St George’s

News & events | 5 Oct 2012 | Tags: community Miles Scott open day Professor Peter Kopelman

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s, University of London will co-host a Community Open Day at their shared main site in Tooting on Saturday 13th October.
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Annual report 2011/12 looks back over exciting year for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

News & events | 14 Sep 2012 | Tags: Christopher Smallwood CQC Dr Foster Miles Scott report

The St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust today published its annual report and annual accounts 2011/12

The report has been published in a number of formats to try and cater for everybody’s needs. The best way to read the report is on the St George’s Healthcare website at www.xstgeorges.nhs.uk/annual The report is optimised for mobile phones so the layout will automatically adjust to your phone’s screen size, and there are also versions available for e-readers and Kindles, as well as a PDF version and a summary report on the website that will also be available around St George’s and Queen Mary’s Hospitals and health centres across Wandsworth.
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New divisional chair begins role at St George’s

News & events | 7 Sep 2012 | Tags: divisional chair Drew Fleming Miles Scott

Drew Fleming started in his new role of divisional chair of surgery, theatres, neurosciences and cancer at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this week. Drew had previously held the post of clinical director for surgery at the trust.
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Steven Bolam and Neal Deans take up new executive roles

News & events | 5 Sep 2012 | Tags: estates and facilities finance and funding Miles Scott Neal Deans Steven Bolam

Steven Bolam started in his new role of director of finance, performance and informatics at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this week.
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Who is your NHS Hero?

News & events | 3 Aug 2012 | Tags: award Miles Scott NHS Hero nominations

NHS Heroes is a new national award scheme that recognises the efforts of staff whose expertise, passion for care, concern and everyday kindness touches the lives of patients and their families in hospital and community services. People whose day-to-day work has changed, enhanced or even saved a life dear to them.
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NHS Heroes and staff awards

News & events | 3 Aug 2012 | Tags: Miles Scott NHS Hero

In his latest blog Miles discusses the opportunity the NHS Heroes awards scheme offers to recognise the people who go the extra mile to make a difference and who do great things every day.

Miles also discusses the St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff values, the Living our Values Awards winners and how the trust celebrated International Nurses’ Day.
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Patient safety

News & events | 6 Jul 2012 | Tags: Miles Scott safety

In his latest blog Miles discusses the inquest into the death of Kane Gorny, which colleagues may have read about in the media over the last week. Kane was admitted for an operation in 2009 with complex medical needs and we failed to care for him as we should have. Sadly he died as a result. Miles apologises on behalf of the trust for this failure in our duty of care, and discusses the action taken to protect other patients.
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