Caroline Clarke, the Regional Director for the NHS in London, said it was great meeting teams and hearing about all the great work they are doing after a visit to Queen’s Hospital on Wednesday 11 October

The annual Baby Loss Awareness Week runs from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 October and for mum-of-three Rosie Guthrie, 35, it’s another opportunity for her to honour and talk about eldest son George.

Queen’s is the first hospital in the UK to receive the Varian HyperSight imaging system upgrade to our ethos radiotherapy machine.

Seven interns have joined our Trust as part of DFN Project SEARCH, a transition into work programme for young adults aged 17-19 with a learning disability (LD) and/or autism.

Following the death of her son Tom, aged just 22, in December 2015, Lisa Wilson has been able to take some comfort from an important decision he made before he died.

Industrial action will have a significant impact on our services when senior and junior doctors take coordinated strike action from Monday 2 October, to 7am on Thursday 5 October.

September is Sickle Cell Awareness month, and our Haemoglobinopathy team held an information stall at Queen’s Hospital on Tuesday 26 September.

Our Placenta Accreta team has been highly commended in the HSJ Patient Safety awards after introducing an innovative way of treating women with Placenta Accreta Spectrum, a serious condition in pregnancy where the placenta becomes attached to the womb and will not separate after childbirth.

Just weeks after their first successful high volume TonKIDZ week in July, where 10 times the usual number of children had their tonsils removed than an average week, our ENT team (Ear, Nose and Throat) has held another, completing even more tonsillectomies than before.

Industrial action by senior and junior doctors will have a significant impact on our services from Tuesday 19 to Saturday 23 September, with doctors taking coordinated strike action for the first time in the history of the NHS.