With two royally named hospitals, Queen’s and King George, it’s only fitting we will be celebrating our Queen’s 70 year reign this bank holiday weekend.

Gabriel Sayer, Associate Medical Director, and consultant vascular surgeon at our Trust, has completed a 600km bike ride around Regent’s Park to raise money for Whizz-Kidz, a charity for young wheelchair users.

We’ve held two further Bones weeks, blitz weeks which saw us focus our resources to carry out several times the usual number of operations in just one week. In five days from Monday 16 May we exceeded our own expectations – carrying out 62 procedures against a target of 50.

Find out the thoughts and priorities of our new Interim Director of Midwifery and Divisional Director of Nursing for Women’s Health Abiola Jinadu, who recently joined our Trust.

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection usually associated with travel to central and west Africa.

Several members of staff at our Trust were presented with You Made a Difference awards this week, following nominations by our patients.

Tuesday 17 May was International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, and we marked it by sharing a statement from our LGBT+ Staff Network and other networks across north east London.

Today (Friday 20 May) is International Clinical Trials Day. This is celebrated annually in commemoration of what was likely the first ever clinical trial, conducted in 1747 by Dr. James Lind and to acknowledge achievements and to raise awareness.

Our teams have been working extremely hard to see patients whose treatment has been delayed by Covid-19. They’ve reduced the number of those waiting for more than two years (104+ weeks) from 218 to 72 in just three weeks.

Like all trusts, we have been working hard to ensure we are compliant with the recommendations of the Ockenden review that was written in the wake of the failure of maternity practices over many years at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.