NHS England's Regional Director for London Andrew Ridley visited King George Hospital (KGH) in Ilford on Friday 8 July to hear about the amazing work we’re doing to reduce waiting times for patients and to open a new unit for treating kidney stones.

Our Ambulance Receiving Centre (ARC), run in partnership with the London Ambulance Service, has been recognised for how it’s helping to reduce delays in ambulance handovers at Queen’s Hospital.

In 2020/21 more than 107,000 people were diagnosed with high blood pressure (hypertension) in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, with many more people at risk of developing the condition in the future.

As around one million Muslims return to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage, the most since the pandemic began, our Muslim chaplain, Sadaf Solangi, reflects on this important event in the Islamic calendar:

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Two NHS trusts in north east London are strengthening their close collaboration through a series of key executive and Board appointments.

Our teams have been working extremely hard to see patients whose treatment was delayed by the pandemic. They’ve reduced those waiting for more than two years (104+ weeks) from 218 at the start of May to just three. These remaining patients have chosen to delay for their own reasons.

King George Hospital has seen its Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) transformed following a £5m investment, which will be crucial in helping us manage critical care demand.

People in north east London are being diagnosed with cancer sooner and are receiving quicker access to treatment thanks to collaborative work between NHS teams.

Tabassum Kokhar, honorary Muslim chaplain at our Trust, set off on her Hajj pilgrimage on Tuesday 28 June.