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.

We held a special Marketplace for our staff offering donated school uniforms, as well as office wear, to help them as the cost-of-living crisis bites.

Our volunteer Charlie Richardson, who has already abseiled down one of London’s tallest buildings and completed a skydive to raise money for our charity, is taking on a new fundraising challenge.

The hard work of our teams to recover our services from the pandemic and reduce our waiting lists has been shortlisted in the annual HSJ awards’ Performance Recovery category, while our Divisional Director of Surgery, Thangadorai Amalesh, is up for Clinical Leader of the year.

We held our second No Meetings Day on Friday 29 July – cancelling or postponing all meetings except those which were clinically urgent – giving our staff time back in their diaries to do what they do best.

Our team held an Endometriosis Awareness Week (18 to 24 July) to help tackle the backlog of patients waiting for treatment, as well as raise the profile of our Endometriosis Centre.

Our Emergency and Acute Care teams are holding a recruitment event for nurses who are interested in working in our friendly and fast-paced Emergency departments (EDs).

West Ham United players surprised staff and patients with special visits to Queen’s and King George hospitals as part of our thank you celebrations.

NHS partners across north east London (NEL) are asking residents for their views on proposals to be able to increase the number of checks, scans and tests across our boroughs.

We were delighted to welcome Evan Davis, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, to our Emergency Department (ED) at Queen’s Hospital to hear how we’re working hard to keep patients safe despite the ongoing pressure on the local healthcare system.