A doctor in our Emergency Department, a healthcare assistant, and a whole team of staff on one of our wards have been given awards for their excellent work.

Olive Low, eight, has put her love of baking with her aunty Laura O’Connor to good use – selling cookies to buy presents for children in hospital this festive season.

Our Surgery team pulled out all the stops to operate on 32 skin cancer patients in just one day on Saturday 27 November – triple the number which would usually be seen on an average day.

Our Mandarin B ward at Queen's Hospital achieved the silver ward accreditation.

A BBC documentary based on our trailblazing Senior Intern team, Saving our Nurses, scooped Best Daytime Programme in the Royal Television Society’s North West awards, held on Saturday 20 November.

Areeb Khan, who has been in hospital since 10 August when her Covid-19 symptoms led her to collapse at home, has encouraged others to have the vaccine which could have prevented her almost dying from the virus.

The Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) Health and Care Academy hosted a virtual event on Thursday 18 November, which focused on Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) and workforce planning.

Raghu Vindlacheruvu, our Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery, will now also act as President of the British Neurovascular Group (BNVG) after being elected by his peers.

Anil Patel, who spent 149 days in our hospitals with Covid-19 in 2020, has spoken to the Metro newspaper about how a call from West Ham ace Michail Antonio helped lift his spirits at a dark time.

The London Living Wage is set to rise to £11.05 an hour. We're committed to paying everyone who works at our Trust thsi increased hourly rate, with more details for staff to follow in due course. We have paid the London Living Wage since its introduction.