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.

Five student radiographers from our Trust, Barts Health, and Homerton Healthcare have graduated as the first cohort from the North East London Imaging Academy after nine months of training.

We are joining forces with the Barts Health group to help patients who would otherwise struggle to get to and from appointments because of a medical condition or mobility issue.

We’re pleased the results of the national CQC adult inpatient survey are beginning to reflect the improvements our teams have been making.

Members of staff who work in our Pathology department are taking industrial action on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 September. They belong to the Unite union and they are going on strike because of their concerns about staffing levels. Their action will affect samples that we test in our labs, including blood samples.

We're delighted to announce we're introducing an electronic patient record (EPR) that will be fully operational in two years’ time. We’re one of the last trusts in London to move to an EPR and away from our unhealthy reliance on paper. We generate 25 million pieces of A4 a year – laid end to end, they’d stretch to New York.

Work to develop a new health and wellbeing centre in Havering has marked a key milestone following the completion of a major phase of the project