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.

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.