Our Elective Surgical Hub, which has been central in our ongoing work to reduce our waiting lists, has been highly commended in the Acute Sector Innovation of the Year in the HSJ Awards.

Harry Galsote, a ward manager on Amber B ward at Queen’s Hospital, has attended a special reception at Buckingham Palace to recognise the contribution of international nurses and midwives in the UK.

We’re excited to be recruiting a new Chair for the King George and Queen’s Hospitals Charity, which fundraises to help improve the care and experience of our patients and staff.

Our Radiography team has been named ‘Team of the Year’ for the London region at the Society of Radiographer’s awards, held on Wednesday 8 November.

We’ll soon be benefiting from the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyse x-rays and CT scans, helping us to speed up the diagnosis and treatment for our lung cancer patients.

We’ve recently welcomed two new colleagues to our leadership team at Queen’s Hospital. Clara Oliver is our Clinical Director for Frailty, Acute and Emergency Services, while Andres Martin is our Site Medical Director.

We’re delighted to have been featured as a case study in the NHS Providers resource, ‘Closing the gap: a guide to addressing racial discrimination in disciplinaries’.

Our Trust is one of the first in the UK to use robotic surgery in urogynaecology, making procedures safer for our patients and more efficient.

Due to the rarity of experts in robotic assisted urogynaecology surgeries in the UK, we invited Professor Cosima Brucker from Germany, to provide advice to our team.

As part of the national drive to reduce elective waiting lists, we are now proactively contacting patients who have been waiting over 40 weeks*, and do not have an appointment date within the next eight weeks, to consider their options to see if they could be seen sooner at a different hospital (*some clinical exclusions apply).

The NHS response to Covid-19 showed we could successfully manage an unprecedented health emergency by working together across institutions. As operational and financial pressures intensify, the NHS is applying that learning to business as usual.