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Category Archives: Purley Hospital
NHS reduces waiting lists for treatment in London by 80%
The London NHS is claiming that it has reduced the number of people waiting more than 18 months for treatment by 80per cent over the past year. “Just one person waiting 18 months for treatment is too many, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon, Croydon NHS, Dr Chris Streather, London, London NHS
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NHS asks women to give themselves some life-saving T.L.C.
The NHS is urging women in Croydon to come forward for breast screening appointments when invited. Each year, more than 2million women across the country UK have breast screening. This helps around 1,300 women’s lives being saved, as more cancers … Continue reading
Mayday and Purley hospitals to get extra operating theatres
Mayday and Purley Hospitals are both to get an additional operating theatre, to help with efforts to reduce the backlog of operations that have built up during the covid pandemic, part of a £1.5billion government scheme for 50 surgical “hubs” … Continue reading
Gold stars: Your chance to nominate your Croydon NHS heroes
Nominations are open to nominate your NHS “Star of the Year” as part of the Croydon Stars Awards, the annual celebration of more than 4,000 NHS heroes working for and with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. Being staged for the … Continue reading
A&E specialist Banerjee given NHS Trust’s top medic role
An A&E doctor who was at the centre of the emergency treatment operations during the Croydon tram crash six years ago has been appointed as Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s most senior medic. Dr Subhro Banerjee has been confirmed as … Continue reading
Seven GP practices in Croydon taken over by US health giant
An American health insurance giant which has been described by the Daily Mail as “a profit greedy” company is about to take over seven GP surgeries in Croydon. Centene, through Operose Health, its UK subsidiary, has been taking over GP … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Croydon CCG, Health, New Addington, Purley, Purley Hospital
Tagged Addiscombe, Centene, Croydon NHS CCG, Fieldway, New Addington, Purley, Purley Hospital, West Thornton
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Nurses are working extra hours to provide screening tests
Croydon’s NHS is providing more extended hours at GP practices and specialist clinics, incuding weekend appointments, to encourage more women to undertake cervical screening. Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, but it can help to prevent cervical cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Health, Purley Hospital
Tagged cervical screening, Croydon NHS CCG
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Hancock’s half-hour at Mayday prompts politicians’ squabble
Our elected representatives had a busy Monday. As well as the borough’s three MPs and short-attention-span councillors turning out at the Town Hall for the Mayor-making in the evening, earlier in the day many of them were in attendance for … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Health, Helen Redfern, Jane Avis, Louisa Woodley, Mayday Hospital, Ola Kolade, Purley Hospital, Sarah Jones MP, St Helier Hospital, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Helen Redfern, Jane Avis, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Croydon third-worst for alcohol-related hospital admissions
Councils across London are being urged today to provide more funding to treat alcohol abuse, as figures from Public Health England show rising numbers of hospital admissions due to alcohol. According to PHE figures, 13 per cent of all hospital … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
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Sanderstead Clinic facing closure in latest NHS cut-backs
Our health correspondent ALAN FINLAY reports on the threat of closure of an NHS facility, right under the nose of the local Conservative MP There’s another round of cuts in services, closures and re-organisations coming to the NHS in Croydon … Continue reading
Croydon NHS say they’re ‘saving’ £20m by denying treatments
Our health correspondent, ALAN FINLAY, on the latest cuts by stealth being implements in the NHS in Croydon, and across the country Croydon NHS is saving £20million a year through what they call “demand management”. To most reasonable people, it … Continue reading
Croydon NHS Trust names Kershaw as its new Chief Exec
Could there be more cuts ahead for local health services? And already 18 months late, will cost over-runs on Mayday’s new A&E department hit other services? Those are just two of the issues waiting in the in-tray for the local … Continue reading
Croydon NHS Trust chief exec announces his retirement
John Goulston is to retire in September from his job as chief executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, it was announced this morning. Goulston has his 60th birthday this year, and has worked in the NHS for 32 years. … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, John Goulston, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS Trust, John Goulston
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Thornton Heath-based nurse is named Midwife of the Year
A midwife working in Croydon has been named as “Midwife Of The Year” at the annual British Journal Of Midwifery Practice Awards. Memuna Sowe is lead midwife for vulnerable and marginalised women at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s Rainbow Health … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS Trust, Mayday Hospital
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Gap in hospital provision that stretches district nurse service
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The services provided at Purley Hospital assume that patients only need treatment from 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. This glaring gap in provision is stupidity, says PAT GAUGE Purley Hospital’s GP Hub is not funded to do … Continue reading
Mayday taken out of special measures, but more cuts to come
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, the body responsible for Mayday and Purley Hospitals, has been taken out of financial special measures, it was announced yesterday. According to the press release issued last night by the Croydon NHS Trust, it has … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, Croydon NHS Trust, Mayday Hospital
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IVF treatment may be withdrawn in Croydon in NHS cuts
IVF treatment could be withdrawn from health services in Croydon as one cut-back to balance the books of the under pressure local clinical commissioning group (CCG), was yesterday placed under “special measures” by Jeremy Hunt’s [sic] Department of Health. As … Continue reading
Croydon NHS Trust and CCG placed in ‘special measures’
Croydon’s medical services were dealt a double whammy this morning, when it was announced that the two bodies which run the area’s hospitals and GP practices, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group, had both been placed … Continue reading
NHS ‘engagement’ on GP hubs leaves us all with a nose bleed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Amid the mounting controversy about the effectiveness of the NHS’s 111 phone line service and junior doctors working all hours and over weekends, the local CCG – Clinical Commissioning Group – has been putting forward a case for … Continue reading
Watchdog is seeking volunteers to check on health services
Healthwatch Croydon, the official consumer group for local health and social care services, is seeking volunteers. They say, “We make a difference to health and social care services in the borough by receiving the views of residents, analysing the comments … Continue reading
Capital’s cost of living leaves London short of 10,000 nurses
London’s NHS nursing shortage has got significantly worse in the past year, with more than 10,000 unfilled posts in the capital’s health trusts in 2015, according to figures published today by the Royal College of Nursing. The impact on patients … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS, Croydon NHS CCG, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
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MP Philp calls meeting on Purley Hospital future, Jan 7
CHRIS PHILP, the MP for Croydon South, on his latest efforts to ensure the continuing services at Purley Hospital I have been calling for restoration of the service level at Purley Hospital’s minor injuries unit for some time. Morning opening … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Coulsdon, Croydon CCG, Croydon South, Health, Kenley, Mayday Hospital, Purley, Purley Hospital, Sanderstead, South Croydon
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon CCG, Croydon South, NHS, Purley, Purley Hospital, Tory
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A&Es fail to assist police with enquiries on knife crime
John Goulston, the chief executive of Mayday, could find himself summoned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson to explain why Croydon’s biggest hospital has not been helping the police with their enquiries, in a capital-wide scheme intended to help to … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 London elections, Boris Johnson, Caroline Pidgeon, Crime, Croydon CCG, Knife crime, London Assembly, Mayday Hospital, Mayor of London, Policing, Purley Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Boris Johnson, Caroline Pidgeon, Conservative, Croydon, Liberal Democrats, London Assembly, Mayday Hospital, Mayor, Purley Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Tory
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Croydon NHS urgent care service review, public meetings
NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) plans and buys most health services in Croydon. The current contracts for urgent care services end in March 2017, which means that they have started reprocurement for these services. The CCG needs to make … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon CCG, Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, NHS
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