Following the announcement that Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral will be held on Monday 19 September, and it will be a bank holiday, we are looking at the impact this will have on our services.

Our Chief Executive, Matthew Trainer, has shared a message of condolence following the news of the death of the Queen.

Our Surgery team has joined the Orion trial, offering a new surgical treatment for haemorrhoid patients who require surgery, where high oscillating frequency energy is used to heat up and destroy the tissue, shrinking the haemorrhoids.

On Wednesday 7 September we were delighted to welcome Barking and Dagenham Council Leader Darren Rodwell and Health and Wellbeing Board Chair Maureen Worby for a tour of our upgraded diagnostic equipment at Barking Community Hospital, including a new state-of-the-art CT scanner.

We’re so proud our Daisy Volunteer project, run in partnership with Marie Curie, has been shortlisted in four categories of the Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA).

Residents are benefitting from faster diagnosis at Barking Community Hospital, with an additional 30,000 tests and scans taking place this financial year, including MRI, CT and ultrasound.

We’ve held a second Marketplace, this time at King George Hospital, offering donated school uniforms and office wear to our staff for free, to help them during the cost-of-living crisis.

Healthwatch Redbridge has released its latest Highlighting Heroes nominations and we’re delighted that some of our staff have been recognised.

Ambalika Das, consultant neonatologist at our Trust, has won the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) Voice Champion award in recognition of her leading role in launching the Happy, Healthy and Well project.

In collaboration with Sodexo, we've launched new picture menus for patients. These new menus have been designed to aid communication between staff and our patients.