Staff, their families and friends soaked up the sunshine at King George Hospital during our family fun weekend.

Six young people have secured jobs at our Trust as part of our trailblazing Project SEARCH scheme, which helps 17 to 19 year olds with learning disabilities and/or autism take their first steps into the workplace.

Our staff and communities marked Learning Disability Week (16 to 20 June) with a series of activities and events to help improve the experiences of people with learning disabilities (LD) in our hospitals.

Our annual plan for 2025/26 has been published, which sets out the work we’re doing towards improving patient care and staff experience via our six annual goals.

It’s Learning Disability Week (Monday 16 to Sunday 22 June) and Maggie Watkinson, a learning disability (LD) nurse who recently joined our team, has shared what inspired her to become a nurse after 14 years as a teacher.

The robots - named Elizabeth and Victoria after two of our most famous queens in honour of being based at Queen’s Hospital – pick and place medicines onto a conveyor belt.

Our Chief Executive, Matthew Trainer, joined Romford MP Andrew Rosindell to meet Health Minister Karin Smyth MP, making the case for the £35million needed to transform our A&E at Queen’s Hospital.

Our volunteers gave more than 10,000 hours of their spare time in the last year to help our staff and patients.

We invited Ashish Joshi, Sky News health correspondent, to our King George Hospital A&E to witness firsthand the pressures our staff experience caring for mental health patients. You can watch the full report on Sky’s website.

We’ve got 340 volunteers who give up their free time to help our patients and staff.