“A huge thank you to everyone at St George’s”

Celebrities have come together to celebrate the efforts of St George’s staff throughout the pandemic in a special thank you video message 🏥

#ThankYouNHS #TeamStGeorges 💙

Georgina Day, A&E nurse, said: “This project was my way of sending a huge thank you to staff for their phenomenal work. They are all truly the best.”

Read more about our celebrity thank you video of support for St George's staff here ⬇️

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Did you spot #TeamStGeorges on the #ClapForTheNHS 👀?

Thanks to our staff who helped to spell out 7⃣2⃣ on our helipad to mark #NHS72 , and to everyone who has supported us in recent months.

#HappyBirthdayNHS | #NHS72 | #NHSBirthday 📸Here are a few more pics from the helipad...

A pleasure to welcome @BBCOne to St George's for #NHS72

To celebrate #WorldSickleCellDay, we'll be sharing a series of short videos created by our paediatric haematology and red cell team. 📹

In our first video, patients Mapaolo, Elle and Jennifer explain what it's like living with the condition 👇

@SickleCellUK | #ShareSickle "I have been taking hydroxyurea since the age of ten and I have recently started the red cell exchange."

Everyone's treatment journey is different and individual to them - hear from some of our patients about their experiences. #SickleCellAwareness #WorldSickleCellDay

We want patients & visitors to stay safe when using our services. This includes observing social distancing; washing hands regularly; and from 15 Jun wearing a face covering when visiting our hospitals or community services. Our Chief Nursing Officer @BleasdaleRob explains why 👇 More guidance about wearing a face covering, and who is exempt, can be found on our website 👇

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Today, NHS Improvement has published an independent mortality review of our heart surgery service at St George’s Hospital: stgeorges.nhs.uk/newsitem/heart…

The review found failings in the care we gave many heart surgery patients between 2013-2018, and we are deeply sorry for this. [1/4] We would like to say sorry to the relatives of those patients who were let down by us – the care they received fell far short of the high standards they deserved.

We are in direct contact with relatives, and continuing to offer them all the support we can. [2/4]

To minimise the risk of Coronavirus infection, we have decided to temporarily restrict visiting arrangements at our hospitals.

Full details here: stgeorges.nhs.uk/newsitem/coron… We are asking friends & relatives to only visit patients if absolutely essential. They should also not visit our hospitals if they have flu-like symptoms, cough, fever or a cold.

❓❔We're ready to get started with our #STGNursingCareers chat!

We will be answering the questions we've had sent in, as well as some of the common queries we receive about working as a nurse at St George's.

#NationalCareersWeek | #NurseTwitter | #StudentNurse Our first q is on the opportunities outside of ward nursing and at more senior levels?

Our options include specialist clinical practitioner roles, education, research, training, wider management or other patient-facing settings such as intensive care.

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👋 Some of our new culture champions met for the first time as a group today!

Over 20 staff will work alongside our CEO @TotterdellJac over the next 6 months - to understand our culture, and drive change.

They told us what they hope to achieve 👇

Thanks to all who have sent in questions for our #STGNursingCareers chat.

We're now going to kick off and answer some of the questions we've been sent, as well as some of the common questions around nursing at St George's.

Do tweet us with your questions over the next hour. Our first q is from Amadosi on Facebook who asked about overseas recruitment...

We recruit globally! You need equivalent standard of training to be registered here, have Eng language skills & will need to pass certain tests to start work. More info: stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/y…

The @CareQualityComm have today recommended that St George’s is moved out of Quality Special Measures! The report found “significant improvement” has been made since our last inspection – great news for patients and staff.

Here is our Chief Executive @TotterdellJac 👇 The overall ratings for the Trust, and for St George’s and Queen Mary’s Hospitals will remain as requires improvement and we know there is lots more work to reach our ambition of #OutstandingCareEveryTime

St George’s Dragons’ Den is back for Quality Improvement Week!

Our fierce looking dragons are waiting for staff to pitch their quality improvement projects for up to £5,000 investment 💰

#StGeorgesQI Naz, one of our anaesthetists, is asking the dragons to invest in personalised caps to help improve communication and teamwork in theatre.

She’s come prepared with custom-made caps for all our dragons!👇

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Non-Executive Directors and an Associate Non-Executive Director to our Trust Board.

More here ⬇️

stgeorges.nhs.uk/newsitem/st-ge… Professor Dame Parveen Kumar DBE is a Consultant in Gastroenterology and a General Physician.

Professor Kumar takes over from Professor Sir Norman Williams who stepped down from the Board in September to take up the role of Chair of the national Independent Reconfiguration Panel

This #WorldStrokeDay we’re celebrating our #stroke service – which was the first 24/7 thrombectomy centre in the UK – and some of our fantastic patients who have shared their #stroke experience over the last couple of years! Inspirational Issy shared her story earlier this year about how she had a #stroke during her after school dance class when she was 9 – a year later she’s back to dancing! Go Issy! @DolbyMissIs @PrincessPickled #WorldStrokeDay
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🎉Today is Pharmacy Technician Day, and once again, we're delighted to feature some of our fab pharmacy techs on our feed!

We'll be posting a few pictures of the team and letting you know a bit more about their work...#RXTechDay First up is Suja, who is an educational supervisor. Suja is currently supervising Renata, who’s undertaking the @HEE_LaSEPharm Medicines Optimisation Course to become a clinical pharmacy technician

When she completes the course Renata will be assigned her own ward #RxTechDay

🏆Congratulations to all of our #AHP award winners!

Well done to Jonathan Da Costa, Specialist Physiotherapist and Evanna Leavy, Specialist Dietitian for winning the 'AHP Team Players' award #AHPsDay Our AHP 'Research Champion' award goes to both Kirsty Harwood and Sarah Latham who job share a Research Physio post.

💬“They work tirelessly to ensure meticulous study conduct, and have endless energy for driving recruitment.” #AHPsDay

Our Chief Executive @TotterdellJac is here to say a few words to open our #BlackHistoryMonth celebration. Marlene, Head of Nursing for Renal, is our first speaker, and will be talking about her journey and career in the NHS.

📢 “It means a lot to me that St George’s is marking #BlackHistoryMonth”

Our Chairman Gillian Norton is now opening our 2019 Annual Members’ Meeting #GeorgesAMM Richard Mycroft, our Lead Governor, is now speaking about the important role our Council of Governors play at the Trust

Our Annual Members’ Meeting marketplace is now open!

We have health check ups, a VR experience and lots more on offer!

#GeorgesAMM Lots of people at our Membership stall, interested in finding out more about the benefits of being a Member. #GeorgesAMM

To mark World Breastfeeding Week 2019, our Infant Feeding team are sharing answers in this thread to some very common breastfeeding queries they receive.

#WBW2019 🤔Do I have to eat a restrictive diet when breastfeeding?

💬The answer is no! You can eat whatever you like, but caution with caffeine and alcohol should be considered #WBW2019

Our @SGHFetalMed team ran a hands on practical obstetric ultrasound course this weekend. The course has been so popular that the team now run it twice a year - and have received some fantastic feedback! Well done team! #TeamStGeorges #FetalMedicine #MedEd #ultrasound Here are some of the great pieces of feedback we received from this weekend’s course...

Huge thanks to @DrRanj and @ChuckyVenn for joining @TotterdellJac @e_orton and some of our Emergency Department stars of @Channel4 #24HrsAE to launch this year's #NHSBigTea campaign from our helipad! @NHSCharities @GivingtoGeorges stgeorges.nhs.uk/newsitem/dr-ra… @DrRanj : “The NHS has been a huge part of my life – as it has for millions of people across the country. I’m delighted to raise a cuppa to celebrate the launch of the #NHSBigTea, which is the perfect opportunity for everyone who loves our NHS to come together and say thank you."