Congratulations to Sahara B ward at Queen’s Hospital, which has become the latest to achieve silver in our ward accreditation scheme.

Great-grandmother-of-four Iris Merry has praised our nurse, Anna Page, for helping to save her life when she had a cardiac arrest on the street in Romford.

Our atrium piano is back at Queen's Hospital. We had to move it during Covid, but now it's back in place. Colin, who loves playing this piano, has also returned.

So far this month, our A&Es have been extremely busy. On Monday 18 March, we experienced the most attendances we’ve seen in at least five years – with almost 1,200 patients through our A&Es and urgent treatment centres, and 119 ambulances arriving at Queen’s Hospital alone, way above what we’d usually see in an average day.

After almost six years, our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Nick Swift, is leaving our Trust to spend 300 days travelling around 30,000km by car to his wife Niro’s home country, Sri Lanka.

The latest national A&E figures, published on Thursday 14 March by NHS England, saw our teams achieve the best performance in a month since July 2020 for All Types. This was despite Queen’s Hospital seeing the biggest increase in ambulances across the whole of London with 600 more, compared to February 2023.

We held a ‘Gynaecology Week’ from Monday 4 to Saturday 9 March where we carried out 60 operations in just six days – including 38 major surgeries.

The results of the national NHS staff survey 2023 have been published and we’re pleased that our results are improving.

March is Endometriosis Action Month, which aims to raise awareness of the debilitating disease which affects one in ten women. It’s when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows in other places, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Finishing touches are being made and patients are just weeks away from getting their tests at our new Community Diagnostic Centre at Barking Community Hospital