From Wednesday 17 to Monday 22 December, resident doctors (formerly known as junior doctors) will be taking strike action. During this time, our services will be under increased pressure.
Getting the right care
Please help us make sure emergency care is available for those who need it most:
Appointments and planned care
So far this month, our A&Es have been extremely busy. On Monday 18 March, we experienced the most attendances we’ve seen in at least five years – with almost 1,200 patients through our A&Es and urgent treatment centres, and 119 ambulances arriving at Queen’s Hospital alone, way above what we’d usually see in an average day.
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After almost six years, our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Nick Swift, is leaving our Trust to spend 300 days travelling around 30,000km by car to his wife Niro’s home country, Sri Lanka.
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The latest national A&E figures, published on Thursday 14 March by NHS England, saw our teams achieve the best performance in a month since July 2020 for All Types. This was despite Queen’s Hospital seeing the biggest increase in ambulances across the whole of London with 600 more, compared to February 2023.
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We held a ‘Gynaecology Week’ from Monday 4 to Saturday 9 March where we carried out 60 operations in just six days – including 38 major surgeries.
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