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Patients Know Best is live
We’re delighted to let you know that you can now access your health record online through a portal called Patients Know Best (PKB).
Read " Patients Know Best is live…"‘There is some really impactful work happening’ – Caroline Clarke
Caroline Clarke, the Regional Director for the NHS in London, said it was great meeting teams and hearing about all the great work they are doing after a visit to Queen’s Hospital on Wednesday 11 October
Read " ‘There is some really impactful work hap…"Baby Loss Awareness Week – ‘When you lose a baby, they don’t just disappear’, mum-of-three Rosie
The annual Baby Loss Awareness Week runs from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 October and for mum-of-three Rosie Guthrie, 35, it’s another opportunity for her to honour and talk about eldest son George.
Read " Baby Loss Awareness Week – ‘When you los…"Queen’s Hospital receives UK’s first Varian HyperSight imaging system
Queen’s is the first hospital in the UK to receive the Varian HyperSight imaging system upgrade to our ethos radiotherapy machine.
Read " Queen’s Hospital receives UK’s first Var…"Project SEARCH interns reach their first milestone
Seven interns have joined our Trust as part of DFN Project SEARCH, a transition into work programme for young adults aged 17-19 with a learning disability (LD) and/or autism.
Read " Project SEARCH interns reach their first…"Tom’s organ donation legacy
Following the death of her son Tom, aged just 22, in December 2015, Lisa Wilson has been able to take some comfort from an important decision he made before he died.
Read " Tom’s organ donation legacy…"Strikes by senior and junior doctors
Industrial action will have a significant impact on our services when senior and junior doctors take coordinated strike action from Monday 2 October, to 7am on Thursday 5 October.
Read " Strikes by senior and junior doctors…"Raising awareness of sickle cell disease
September is Sickle Cell Awareness month, and our Haemoglobinopathy team held an information stall at Queen’s Hospital on Tuesday 26 September.
Read " Raising awareness of sickle cell disease…"Team saving women’s lives and fertility highly commended in HSJ awards
Our Placenta Accreta team has been highly commended in the HSJ Patient Safety awards after introducing an innovative way of treating women with Placenta Accreta Spectrum, a serious condition in pregnancy where the placenta becomes attached to the womb and will not separate after childbirth.
Read " Team saving women’s lives and fertility …"‘TonKIDZ’ team does it again
Just weeks after their first successful high volume TonKIDZ week in July, where 10 times the usual number of children had their tonsils removed than an average week, our ENT team (Ear, Nose and Throat) has held another, completing even more tonsillectomies than before.
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