Tag Archives: Matthew Kershaw
£15m NHS intensive care unit draws close to completion
Croydon’s NHS hospital’s £15million new intensive care unit is on course for completion with a few weeks, the latest part of a multi-million improvement to the hospital conducted in the last five years. Providing care for the borough’s most seriously … Continue reading
Leading figure in covid response to leave Croydon NHS Trust
Lee McPhail is to step down as chief operating officer at the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust after five years in the post, it has been announced by the Trust which operates Croydon’s Mayday and Purley War Memorial hospitals. In … Continue reading
NHS Trust names Kelly as Croydon’s new Chief Nurse
Deborah Kelly has been appointed as the new Chief Nursing Officer for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, which runs Mayday and Purley hospitals. Kelly arrives in Croydon after a 35-year career in which she has held senior nursing and managerial … Continue reading
£1million cost to Mayday Hospital of every doctors’ strike
As consultants and junior doctors begin the biggest industrial action in the history of the NHS, local trust’s CEO says it could take nine months to catch-up with the Croydon hospital’s back-log of treatments Every strike costs Croydon’s Mayday Hospital … Continue reading
Mayday Hospital issues A&E advice as NHS feels the heat
Croydon’s NHS hospitals are having to cope with a “perfect storm” this week of hot weather, dangerously toxic air pollution and a junior doctors’ strike, with NHS London issuing a reminder: “No one wants an avoidable trip to A&E”. Matthew … Continue reading
Champion performances for charity by marathon runners
Two Croydon figures made themselves marathon champions on Sunday, one by setting an example by raising thousands of pounds for the NHS charity, the other by claiming the accolade as the 2023 race’s oldest finisher. David Picksley, at 90, completed … Continue reading
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
Long-planned Coulsdon medical centre in ‘critical condition’
The long-planned development of the Coulsdon Medical Centre on the site of the CALAT building has been placed on hold. The front page of the latest edition of the newsletter from the Coulsdon West Residents’ Association puts it bluntly: “Critical … 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
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
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
NHS chief’s tough run raises £4,000 for children’s cancer ward
Matthew Kershaw, the chief executive of the Croydon NHS Trust, went the extra mile, or 62, at the weekend to help raise funds for a children’s cancer charity based at Mayday Hospital. Kershaw, together with Scott Beaton, has raised more … Continue reading
£14.7m upgrade to hospital’s intensive care unit set to begin
Croydon is to get a new hospital. Well, of course not. Although it probably won’t be too long before Chris Philp and Croydon’s Tories are hailing a £14.7million extension of the intensive care unit at Mayday as a “new hospital”, … 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
NHS boss gets covid numbers wrong: ‘a transcription error’
STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, reports on a crass piece of misinformation over coronavirus provided by the most senior NHS executive in Croydon Matthew Kershaw, the chief executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, last week provided the council’s scrutiny committee with … Continue reading
100,000 covid cases in borough so far say health officials
Nov 18 UPDATE: The figures provided by the NHS to the council scrutiny committee were WRONG, and a vast overstatement of the number of covid cases in Croydon, as pointed out by so many of our loyal readers in the … Continue reading
Hospitals and boroughs prepare for London’s second lockdown
Croydon NHS chiefs offer assurance that they are more ready to handle a ‘second wave’ of the pandemic Croydon is to be placed on Tier 2 covid-19 lockdown measures from Saturday, with a ban on households mixing indoors. The new … Continue reading
Covid death rates linked to poverty and high-density housing
Official death rate figures from the ONS show that over-intensification of housing has played a part in helping the spread of coronavirus, as Croydon’s NHS chief warns against ‘inequalities’. BARRATT HOLMES, our housing correspondent, reports Croydon has suffered a far … Continue reading
‘We’re frightened’ the head nurse at Mayday tells TV news
According to a report on Sky News overnight from a ward on “one of the worst affected hospitals in London”, 1-in-4 of the patients admitted to Croydon’s Mayday Hospital with covid-19 do not survive. “Patients are understandably frightened, staff are … Continue reading
Mayday Hospital is already operating at 100% capacity
Our health correspondent, ALAN FINLAY, on the latest emerging crisis at the borough’s largest hospital, where there can be four-hour waits for emergency beds Mayday Hospital is already been operating at more than 100 per cent capacity for bed use, … Continue reading
Kershaw moves quickly to appoint ‘business team’ at Mayday
Matthew Kershaw, recently appointed as the chief executive at Mayday Hospital, has announced a series of appointments to, according to the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, “strengthen the senior team”. Kershaw took over as “interim CEO” on October 1, as … 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
