The year six pupils came with gifts for the nurses on Tropical Lagoon children’s ward at Queen’s Hospital.

We have 2,611 nurses from more than 60 different countries and they work in a variety of roles across our Trust.

Hundreds of staff and our local community all got involved in our events.

We’re marking International Day of the Midwife (Monday 5 May) with a special day of celebrations.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting praised our Urology service as ‘the future of what the NHS should like’ when he visited King George Hospital to open a new one-stop shop at our Elective Surgical Hub.

Nurses dressed in 1940s uniforms, wards decked out in bunting, themed activity packs for our patients, and artwork and poetry displays from local schoolchildren are just some of the ways we’ll be celebrating VE Day.

We’re one of a number of trusts that has discovered there was a problem with the equipment we use to analyse HbA1c, a test used to diagnose and monitor diabetes.

Hannah Dalton, a critical care pharmacist at our Trust, ran the London Marathon on Sunday (27 April) despite having a visual impairment.

We’re opening a specially designed, calming room for children under 16 who are experiencing mental health issues at Queen’s Hospital.

After nearly a decade spent creating new routes into nursing, ‘growing our own’ staff from our local communities, and whipping our wards into shape, our Chief Nurse, Kathryn Halford, is moving on at the end of this month.