Our teams have been working hard to reduce the waits our patients face in our Emergency Departments (EDs). Since February this year, they have improved our performance against the national target for those who are most seriously ill (Type 1) by over 20 per cent.

Junior doctors are on strike until 7am on Tuesday 15 August.

We’re hugely proud to have not one, not two, but three colleagues among us holding the title of ‘professor’, the highest academic rank.

On Thursday 3 August, our Infant Feeding team hosted an afternoon tea for several maternity colleagues who are currently on maternity leave. They also brought along their babies, the youngest being just two weeks old.

Pre-2020, when no one had heard of Covid-19, stroke consultant Devesh Sinha and the rest of our team were looking to create a hub as a way to reach people in the community who were most at risk of strokes, and prevent them.

We have 400 new junior doctors joining our Trust over the next three months as from August each year, trusts across the country welcome new recruits, while the previous year’s intake head off on the next step in their careers.

We’ve slashed the number of children waiting to have their tonsils removed by a quarter, after our ENT team (Ear, Nose and Throat) held a high volume week in July – TonKIDZ.

On Father’s Day this year, Dominic Barker, of Collier Row, completed a three-mile sponsored walk in memory of his dad James Barker, who passed away in February this year aged just 39.

Headline act at our staff party a record two years in a row, this is the inside story of the Pfizer Chiefs and what didn't happen in the lead up to our NHS 75 events.

Consultants are on strike until 7am on Saturday 22 July.