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Tag Archives: St Helier Hospital
Hospital porters use bedsheets for dead patients at St Helier
A public service trades union whose members work at St Helier Hospital in the covid-19 crisis say that some have been left “traumatised” after they were ordered to use bedsheets to transport deceased patients because body bags have “run out”. … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, St Helier Hospital
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Croydon in area with country’s highest coronavirus death rate
The vital need for Croydon residents to follow government advice to stay at home except for essential travel in order to save lives – including their own – has been underlined by data published by the Health Service Journal. The … Continue reading
‘A time to prepare, not panic’ MP Jones says over coronavirus
Croydon, London and much of the country was going into a self-imposed lockdown today, as sports events, concerts and other public gatherings, large and small, were being postponed or called off to try to avoid the spread of coronavirus. In … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon Minster, Croydon NHS Trust, Crystal Palace FC, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayday Hospital, Mayor of London, Sarah Jones MP, Sport, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Croydon, Croydon Central, Mayday Hospital, Sarah Jones MP, St Helier Hospital
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St Helier Hospital patient is latest to die from coronavirus
The fifth person in Britain to succumb to the effects of coronavirus died yesterday at St Helier Hospital. “We can confirm that sadly, a patient in their 70s who was very unwell with a number of significant and long-term health … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, Ruth Dombey, St Helier Hospital, Sutton
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St Helier’s NHS Trust ‘requires improvement’ says CQC
The trust which runs St Helier Hospital’s accident and emergency department is still rated “requires improvement”, following a return inspection by the Care Quality Commission. The CQC rated Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust as “Good” overall following … Continue reading
St Helier Hospital land sales public meeting, Epsom, May 21
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Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, St Helier Hospital
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Keep Our St Helier Hospital public meeting, Morden, Apr 24
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Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, KOSHH, St Helier Hospital
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St Helier’s new boilers take steam out of Sutton’s heat network
CARL SHILTON, our Sutton investigations editor, discovers that the council’s troubled heating network scheme has suffered a massive blow – from St Helier Hospital Council leader Ruth Dombey’s plans for a lucrative “Phase 2” of the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jayne McCoy, Planning, Ruth Dombey, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory, Viridor
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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
Keep Our St Helier Hospital charity fund-raiser, Sutton, Dec 9
A fund-raising gig, featuring 1960s music from The Modern Apes, is being held this Sunday for the Keep Our St Helier Hospital group who are campaigning to protect your under-threat hospitals, and the services they currently provide. Date: This Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Health, Music, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, St Helier Hospital, Sutton
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NHS set to announce A&E and Maternity closures at St Helier
NHS chiefs in Merton will later this week propose the closure of the Accident and Emergency department and the Maternity unit at St Helier Hospital, according to an MP for the area. The MP, Siobhain McDonagh, warns that any such … Continue reading
£28m NHS lie that provided Sutton LibDems with life support
The Liberal Democrats last night clung to power at Sutton Council, despite losing 12 seats in the local elections. But as CARL SHILTON reveals, they did so by deliberately misleading the public In the final days before Thursday’s local elections, … Continue reading
Council should block Hunt’s £1bn NHS cuts says Assembly
Candidates in May’s Town Hall elections are today being called upon to pledge to block any attempt to impose £1billion-worth of cuts to the NHS in south London. The Croydon Assembly is meeting today at Ruskin House to discuss cuts … Continue reading
Carillion collapse has libraries and hospitals counting the cost
Croydon’s libraries have survived their brush with Carillion, although they had to endure a couple of days of IT outages and other issues as council staff worked and negotiated behind the scenes to replace services which had gone unpaid by … Continue reading
St Helier Hospital charges nurses £1,200 to park at work
Hard-working and under-paid NHS staff at St Helier Hospital are forced to pay more than £1,200 a year just to use the hospital car park when they go in to work. St Helier is ranked second on a national list … Continue reading
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Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, St Helier Hospital
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Keep Our St Helier campaign public meeting, Morden, Jan 30
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Tagged Keep Our St Helier Hospital, KOSHH, St Helier Hospital
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10,000 sign KOSHH petition against NHS hospital closures
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition opposing the closure of two local hospitals, including St Helier in Sutton. Hospital workers are convinced that Jeremy Hunt, the Tory health minister, is working on plans to close maternity and A&E … Continue reading
NHS Trust votes for St Helier closure, despite public opposition
The Tory Government is pushing ahead with plans to close the Sutton hospital where former Prime Minister Sir John Major was born NHS chiefs in south-west London want to close all acute, emergency and maternity facilities at two large hospitals, … Continue reading
Scully and Sutton Tories sent scrambling over St Helier plans
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent (recently successfully put out to tender), reports on a growing row in Sutton over the Conservatives’ opaque plans for one of the area’s largest NHS hospitals It started so casually, with Sutton’s two MPs together … Continue reading
Under-threat St Helier only London hospital to hit A&E target
St Helier was the only NHS hospital trust in the capital with an accident and emergency department which actually met its waiting time targets, according to the most recent data available. St Helier, of course, is under constant threat of … Continue reading
NHS Mayday: south London hospitals among 20 on Black Alert
The largest NHS hospitals in Croydon and Sutton have this week had to resort to providing medical care for adults on children’s wards, amid the gathering crisis in England’s healthcare system. The Epsom and St Helier Trust, which manages the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon NHS Trust, Foxley Lane, Health, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
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Fiddling the figures won’t help to save our NHS
CROYDON COMMENTARY: NHS bureaucrats try to deny that they are planning significant closures to south London’s hospitals, while working on a plan which offers two ‘hypotheses’, neither of which include maintaining all five of the current sites. Here ANDY FORD, … Continue reading
Not one but two south London hospitals now under threat
Just when you thought that Tory cuts to the NHS in this part of London could not get worse, they do. Health correspondent JAMES KILLDARE has seen the secretive STP report which could doom St Helier and St George’s, Tooting … Continue reading
