When Dione Rogers, our Deputy Chief Nurse and Chief Nurse Informatics Officer, was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, confirming her own hunch, it explained a lifetime of not being able to easily translate the thoughts in her head to paper.

Congratulations to Harvest B ward at Queen’s Hospital for attaining silver in our ward accreditation programme.

We’re doing our bit to tackle the global threat from antimicrobial resistance – when bacteria becomes drug resistant, reducing the efficiency of the medicines we take – by reintroducing the practice of flushing our intravenous lines (IV).

Clementine B ward at Queen’s Hospital has become the latest to achieve silver in our ward accreditation scheme.

After more than a decade spent in and out of special measures, NHS England have recognised the improvements we’ve made in patient care, our finances, our A&Es and in the way we’re run. They’ve moved us out of what’s known as the Recovery Support Programme under the NHS Oversight Framework. 

We held a special opening event on Friday 17 May to celebrate the completion of an expansion of our Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital (KGH).

As part of our commitment to support our lowest paid workers with the rising cost of living, particularly in and around London, we’re increasing our band 2 bank pay rates to the London Living Wage (LLW), as well as uplifting our apprentice rates. Payments for our staff will be backdated to April 2024.

Our annual plan for 2024/25 has been published, which sets out the work we’re doing towards improving patient care and staff experience via our six annual goals. You can read our annual plan, or annual plan summary, on our website.

In the week of International Nurses Day (Sunday 12 May) we celebrated our nurses by delivering fruit baskets to our wards, while teams held their own celebrations. At our Trust we have more than 4,000 nurses, nursing associates and healthcare assistants from 111 different countries.

Romford MP Andrew Rosindell has pledged his support for a new and improved A&E at Queen’s Hospital after a visit to the site earlier today.