We welcomed BBC London’s health correspondent Karl Mercer back to Queen’s Hospital on Thursday 18 July to see how our staff are dealing with increasing pressure, and our work to reduce our waiting lists.

Patients are strongly advised to use public transport to get to Queen’s Hospital while essential improvement works are carried out on our multi-storey car park.

We’re pleased to report almost all our systems are back up and running.

Congratulations to Clementine A Ward at Queen’s Hospital for achieving silver in our ward accreditation programme.

We’ve held a special memorial service to honour Trust staff, as well as those from our partners Sodexo and Mitie, who have died since 2020.

Well done to the Medical Receiving Unit (MRU) at King George Hospital for achieving silver in our ward accreditation programme.

Two weeks of events, ‘Celebrating BHRUT’, for our staff and their families, volunteers and our local communities, drew to a close on Saturday (13 July) with a family fun day.

Thousands of patients across north east London could get NHS treatment sooner this year as our hospitals collaborate to schedule extra elective operations.

Victoria Macdonald, Health and Social Care Editor at Channel 4 News returned to Queen’s Hospital on Thursday 11 July as our new Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, began to set his priorities for the NHS. You can watch the report on the Channel 4 website.

We held a special event to honour our dedicated volunteers who give up their spare time to help at our Trust. They were treated to a lunch and awards celebration at Queen’s Hospital in the marquee on Thursday 11 July.