The CQC has published the results of its annual maternity survey, which saw our Trust achieve improved satisfaction levels across 38 of the 49 questions compared with the previous year’s results.

Our Frailty Virtual Ward (also known as hospital at home) is not only keeping older people out of hospital, reducing risks of loss of independence, it’s also helping other patients in need of urgent and emergency care get treated faster.

Our apprenticeship graduates celebrated National Apprenticeship Week in style at a special event held in the House of Commons

We’re kickstarting this year’s National Apprenticeship Week by celebrating the fact that one in twenty of our colleagues are apprentices and this means we’ve become members of The 5% Club

After visiting the Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital (KGH), Wes Streeting - one of our MPs – described our work as “ground-breaking and nationally leading” and spoke of how the results we are seeing are “unlike anywhere else in the country”.

Our state-of-the-art Decontamination Unit at King George Hospital (KGH) was officially opened today (Thursday 1 February) and was labelled a ‘game changer’ for patients and staff. 

Our on-going improvement, as part of our integrated healthcare system in north east London, has been recognised following a progress review by NHS England.

We’re one of only two hospitals in the country to offer FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) in our A&E. FIT checks the level of blood present in a patient’s poo and can help detect colorectal cancers.

We are weeks away from treating our patients even faster now that the expansion of our Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital (KGH) is close to completion.

Collaboration and co-operation are the cornerstones of the NHS approach to health and care as together we face unprecedented operational and financial challenges.