December 2019
27th
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Our Trust volunteers make such a difference to helping us deliver better quality services. This year we launched a Christmas volunteering campaign to encourage volunteers to support our patients and staff over the busy Christmas period.
20th
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A special visit from Chelsea Football Club’s first team, who came to spread some Christmas cheer to the children’s wards, organised by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and our official charity CW+.
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Chief Midwifery Officer, Tonie Neville, was surprised to receive a retirement present with a difference—a prestigious NHS Gold Award from Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, the Chief Midwifery Officer for England.
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Across our Trust, Christmas is a time for celebrating staff and teams—for their kindness, positive attitude, and creativity.
2nd
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This winter, the NHS in North West London is reminding residents of the range of healthcare services to help them stay well.
November 2019
28th
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The Trust will celebrate World AIDS Day on Friday 29 November. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs the largest HIV service in the country and has a long association with the fight against HIV/AIDS.
October 2019
31st
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Keep yourself and your loved ones safe—get vaccinated for flu every year, as the flu is a different strain every year. Being vaccinated is the responsible way to protect yourself and those you care about.
28th
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Salma Abdi, youth volunteer at West Middlesex University Hospital, was highly commended for Young Volunteer of the Year at the Helpforce Champions Awards 2019, which provides national recognition of fantastic contributions to volunteering in the NHS.
18th
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ISS are our partners and their staff deliver a wide range of important services including cleaning, catering, portering and waste management. Working with ISS and neighbouring Trusts, we can now announce that by 1 April 2020 all ISS staff at our Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex sites will be paid the London Living Wage.
17th
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The owners of North West London Pathology—The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust—are to strengthen their support for ambitious plans to deliver one of the largest pathology transformation programmes in the country, through a temporary change to the organisation’s governance structure.
9th
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NHS Providers has today launched a major new programme of work, Providers deliver, to celebrate and promote the work of NHS trusts and foundation trusts in improving care.
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Today, the Mum & Baby app—born from a need to provide reliable information to women in North West London—is adopted by other Local Maternity Systems across England including the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS).
September 2019
25th
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The CW Innovation programme, led by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity CW+, launches today to improve patient care and address some of the real-time challenges that healthcare organisations face today.
August 2019
20th
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West Middlesex University Hospital is to host an action packed day of sport, fitness, free heath checks, cooking demonstrations, behind the scenes tours, live entertainment and careers advice at its Open Day on Thursday 5 September 2019.
15th
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As nearly half a million students get their A-level results today, NHS leaders in London are calling on young people to consider a career in nursing.
July 2019
26th
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Prudential RideLondon, a world-class festival of cycling, takes place in central London and Surrey this year on 3 and 4 August. On Saturday 3 August the Freecycle is taking place around central London and on Sunday 4 August the RideLondon Surrey 100, 46, 19 and Classic events take place throughout London and Surrey.
11th
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We are pleased to announce that the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London, NIHR ARC NWL, has officially been granted £9 Million of the £135 million research fund as a local collaborative programme in healthcare improvement, to tackle the biggest healthcare challenges of this generation.
9th
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Make Me a Medic is a two-day programme created and designed by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Its aim is to provide local Year 12 pupils (16 to 17 year olds) from the boroughs of Kensington, Chelsea and Hounslow with the opportunity to gain insight into the working life of a doctor or medical professional, and how they could apply to study medicine.
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The NHS in North West London has today launched a new digital toolkit to help other local NHS regions transform their maternity services. This new toolkit follows work we have been doing to improve the clinical outcomes and care experiences for women and families in our local area.
June 2019
5th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of six NHS trusts in north west London that have formed a new network to improve imaging services—including X-ray, MRI and CT scans—to enable better care for cancer, stroke and a wide range of other conditions.
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Today we are celebrating #powerofyouth as part of National Volunteers Week 2019. In this blog, Katie Thomson, our Youth Volunteering Manager, comments on the integration of youth volunteers at West Middlesex University Hospital, and the plans for the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Summer Programme 2019.
May 2019
24th
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Winners of the 2019 HSJ Value Awards were announced on 23 May at Manchester Central where Chelsea and Westminster and the Royal Marsden Shared Procurement Service won the Financial or Procurement Initiative of the Year 2019 award.
23rd
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital celebrated its 300th anniversary with a special commemorative service today at Westminster Abbey, London, attended by past and current staff, patients, volunteers, supporters, MPs and other NHS dignitaries.
16th
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The Health Service Journal (HSJ) has shortlisted Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for a Learning Disabilities Initiative of the Year Award, as part of the publication’s annual Patient Safety Awards.
10th
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Gavin and Stacey actor Larry Lamb cut the ribbon and officially opened Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s brand new Macmillan Cancer Support Information Centre last week.
9th
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The Mayor of London attended a special event at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital yesterday evening to celebrate the opening of the new Reuben Foundation Maternity Centre, providing women and their babies with an outstanding environment, personalised patient experience and the latest technology and facilities.
1st
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Preparing to have a baby is one of the most wonderful things, but can also bring with it a natural anxiety for many mums-to-be. Two in ten women will experience a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the first year following birth.
April 2019
26th
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We were delighted to recently launch an innovative new project called Postnatal Care: Developing a Living Library to promote a human-centred model of care, supported by The Health Foundation.
8th
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Four wards at the Trust have received national awards in recognition of the major changes they’ve made to the care they provide to patients approaching the end of their lives.
4th
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Leading clinicians have been reviewing the access targets currently in place across the NHS, including for A&E. They have made proposals to update these targets in line with advances in clinical practice, and what patients say matters most to them.
March 2019
27th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and digital innovator patchwork have won a prestigious award for digital transformation at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2019 (March 20), which showcases the most effective partnerships in healthcare.
February 2019
6th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new digital postnatal discharge system, powered by Lumeon technology. This innovative software will improve the patient experience, increase efficiency and reduce costs at the hospital.
January 2019
18th
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The NHS across North West London has launched a campaign to encourage everyone to feel happier and healthier by making a #MyJanuary pledge.