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Tag Archives: Croydon NHS Trust
Croydon surgeries where half GP consultations are by phone
Don’t get old. Don’t get ill. That was the warning about life under a Conservative government 40 years ago, and it holds true today, as ANDREW FISHER, pictured left, discovered when checking out waiting times just to get an appointment … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon CCG, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, London Ambulance Service
Tagged Andrew Fisher, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon NHS, Croydon NHS Trust, Croydon North, Croydon South, GP surgeries, NHS, RCGP, Royal College of General Practitioners, Tory
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NHS Trust names pharmacist Gibbons as its new chair
Yemisi Gibbons has been named as the new chair of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, to take up the role from January 1. Gibbons, 45, succeeds Mike Bell, who has chaired the Trust for 10 years. Announcing the initial three-year … Continue reading
Shopping malls pick Croydon Health as nominated charity
The Croydon Health Charity, based at Mayday Hospital, has been announced as the nominated charity of the year for the Centrale and Whitgift shopping centres. The announcement is a boost for NHS staff and patients across the borough, as the … Continue reading
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
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
NHS Trust sparks fresh demand with its electric ambulance
The local NHS trust has started using the area’s first purpose-built electric ambulance, beginning its replacement of petrol and diesel ambulances with more environmentally friendly ones. Croydon Health Services NHS Trust says that this represents “an important milestone in the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Environment, Health, Matthew Kershaw
Tagged Croydon NHS Trust, Net zero
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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
£7m Rainbow children’s unit set to transform hospital services
Croydon has a new, dedicated ward for children requiring hospital care. The £7million freshly named Rainbow Unit was opened this week by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust chairman Mike Bell. The Rainbow Children’s Unit name plaque was also unveiled by … Continue reading
Mayor digs in to plant a Jubilee cherry tree at Mayday
The local NHS Trust and the Mayor of Croydon staged a joint ceremony yesterday to dig in and contribute to the Queen’s Green Canopy – a tree-planting initiative being run to coincide with celebrations around the 70th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Union wins settlement for hospital cleaners and porters
The GMB trades union, which is in dispute with the employers of porters and cleaners at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital over covid sick pay, has suspended a protest on similar issues at nearby St George’s Hospital in Tooting after management there … Continue reading
10,000 Londoners asked to come forward for cancer checks
Prostate Cancer UK and the NHS have today joined forces to launch a campaign to find more than 14,000 men in the country who need treatment for prostate cancer but have not yet come forward. Latest statistics released by NHS … Continue reading
Charity that supports NHS Trust gets Valentine’s Day makeover
Croydon’s only dedicated NHS charity used Valentine’s Day to relaunch with a new brand and a pledge to continue to increase support for the borough’s NHS staff and patients. The somewhat more snappily named Croydon Health Charity – what was … Continue reading
Hospital launches competition to name its new children’s unit
Croydon’s youngsters are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to name the local hospital’s new, state-of-the-art children’s care unit. The unit, at Mayday Hospital, is due to open in May. It will include medical wards, a surgical ward and a short … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS Trust, Mayday Children's Unit, Mayday Hospital
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Mayday doctors give backing to porters in covid pay dispute
Doctors at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital have pledged their support to porters’ and cleaners’ fight for covid sick pay. The doctors – who represent the British Medical Association on the local negotiating committee – are backing a GMB protest to be … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS Trust, GMB, Helen O'Connor, Mayday Hospital
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Mayday! Hospital workers protest against lack of covid sick pay
Porters and cleaners at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital are to stage a protest later this month after their employer – private NHS contractor G4S – stopped paying covid positive hospital workers’ occupational sick pay. The employers refusing to pay staff for … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, GMB, Mayday Hospital
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97% of south-west London covid patients are unvaccinated
Nearly every adult hospitalised with covid-19 in Croydon and south-west London over the past two months had not been fully vaccinated with two doses and a booster. Local operational figures for five major NHS hospitals in this part of London … Continue reading
Vax roll-out accelerated – but not in Purley, Kenley or Coulsdon
The NHS vaccination programme cranked up an extra gear or two this week, as part of the national effort to offer millions of Britons a covid-19 booster vaccine by the end of the year in a race to protect the … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Kenley, Purley
Tagged coronavirus, Coulsdon, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Kenley, Purley
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Government rolls out 1m daily jabs against Omicron ‘tidal wave’
The government is calling in the army in an effort to double the number of covid booster jabs delivered to more than 1million per day between now and the New Year in a desperate effort to limit the spread and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Boris Johnson, Centrale, coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS Trust, London Borough of Croydon, Omicron, Rachel Flowers
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Omicron case in Sutton; Government slow to notify council
Positive covid cases in Croydon up by one-third in a week, as senior adviser warns that government’s slow, ‘wait and see’ approach is ‘biggest mistake you can make in a pandemic’ The discovery of a case of the Omicron variant … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Sutton Council
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Omicron, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory
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Time to mask up as covid positive cases are on the rise again
Rachel Flowers, the council’s director of public health, has issued an appeal to Croydon residents to adopt fully the latest rules on face mask-wearing in shops and on public transport, as the borough has seen cases of covid-19 increase again … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon NHS Trust, Rachel Flowers
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Anti-vax conspiracy theories are covid’s ticking time bomb
It is not just new strains of the coronavirus which are hampering Croydon’s public health efforts to reduce its spread, but also dangerous and deliberate misinformation from the United States When a TikTok user filmed himself shouting “liar” at England’s … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Brown, Asian Resource Centre of Croydon, Community associations, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon NHS Trust, Health, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Andrew Brown, Asian Resource Centre of Croydon, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon NHS Trust, Croydon University Hospital, Ima Miah, Mayday Hospital, QAnon
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NHS alliance staging consultations in Coulsdon, Nov 4 and 5
A health services alliance organisation is to stage two consultation sessions next week to outline plans for the medical centre planned for Coulsdon town centre. The sessions will be held at Coulsdon Methodist Church on Thursday November 4 and Friday … Continue reading
‘Keep your distance’ as covid infection rates creep up again
Coronavirus infection rates in Croydon are on the rise again – and started to increase within a week of the government’s lockdown measures being eased. Despite the roll-out of the vaccination programme against the deadly virus – 90 per cent … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Rachel Flowers
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Councillor recovering after 9-day covid hospital stay
Jason Perry, the leader of the Conservative opposition at Croydon Council, is recovering at home from the effects of covid-19. Perry spent more than a week in Mayday Hospital after contracting the life-threatening illness last month. While being treated in … Continue reading
‘Pivotal moment’ as hospital starts coronavirus vaccinations
Patients will be vaccinated against coronavirus at Mayday Hospital as early as this Tuesday, at the start of the biggest immunisation programme in history. The hospital, part of the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, is one of 50 around the … Continue reading
