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 look 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.