December 2010
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Cases of flu are being reported in increasing numbers across the UK.
24th
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A Statement of Declaration that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has the necessary procedures in place to ensure a robust MRSA screening programme for both planned and emergency admissions has been published.
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The remarkable story of Landina, a seriously ill baby rescued from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake earlier this year and brought to London for treatment at Chelsea and Westminster and Great Ormond Street hospitals, will be told in a Channel 4 documentary The Miracle Baby of Haiti at 9pm on Tuesday 28 December.
23rd
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7/7 survivor Davinia Turrell today announced that a fundraising appeal by Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity to raise more than £100,000 for the Burns Service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has reached its target less than six months after its launch on the fifth anniversary of the London bombings.
21st
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We would like to hear feedback about your experience as a patient, a relative, an employee or a visitor.
16th
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The Decontamination Services Department has won the hospital's Best Decorated Ward competition, which is held every year to help bring some Christmas cheer to patients who unfortunately have to spend the festive season in hospital.
14th
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Chelsea players including John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Didier Drogba visited the children's wards at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Tuesday 14 December.
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Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley visited Chelsea and Westminster Hospital's A&E Department on Monday 13 December. He also visited the Paediatric A&E Department and new Urgent Care Centre which opened in October.
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Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes visited 56 Dean Street—our HIV and sexual health centre in Soho—to promote HIV testing on World AIDS Day.
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Sarah Mee, Consultant Hand Therapist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, has been named Hand Therapist of the Year 2010 by the British Association of Hand Therapists (BAHT).
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Staff at 56 Dean Street, our HIV and sexual health centre in Soho, have won the ‘Success in Partnership Working’ category of the London NHS Health and Social Care Awards 2010 for their Hepatitis B screening, vaccination and treatment service run jointly with the Chinese National Healthy Living Centre.
November 2010
30th
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Elections were held in November 2010 to the following constituencies of the Council of Governors...
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A major fundraising appeal is being launched to help the Trust achieve its vision of providing world class children’s services following our designation as the lead centre for specialist paediatric and neonatal surgery in North West London.
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Chelsea and Westminster has been singled out for its good performance in two areas by the Dr Foster Hospital Guide, an annual independent healthcare survey published this week.
19th
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Good news for patients, visitors and staff who use their cars to drive to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital—the Western Extension of the Congestion Charging zone will be abolished from the end of the charging day on Christmas Eve.
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David Erskine Ward at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was transformed into a blushing shade of pink on Friday 29 October as ward staff, patients and their visitors all dressed the part for ‘Wear it Pink Day’ to raise money for the charity Breast Cancer Campaign.
October 2010
29th
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Members of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital have the opportunity to meet their elected representative on the Council of Governors at the latest series of ‘Meet the Governors’ sessions which will be held in the Information Zone on the Ground Floor of the hospital (near Costa Coffee).
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The Friends of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Christmas cards are now available—£2.50 for 10 cards.
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Chelsea and Westminster has been ranked among the top 10 employers for working families in the UK in the Top Employers for Working Families Awards 2010 announced on 19 October—and the best NHS employer.
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If you are a Foundation Trust member, you can have your say on the future of your hospital when elections to the Council of Governors are held this autumn.
20th
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A new Urgent Care Centre (UCC) has opened in the A&E Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
15th
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Almost 40,000 people now visit the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital website every month which means it is a major source of information for patients, visitors and people interested in working for the Trust.
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Members of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital have the opportunity to meet their elected representative on the Council of Governors at the latest series of ‘Meet the Governors’ sessions which will be held in the Information Zone on the Ground Floor of the hospital (near Costa Coffee).
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To mark the fifth anniversary of the 7/7 bombing, Davinia Turrell—who was treated in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s Burns Unit for injuries she sustained in the Edgware Road tube bombing—gave an exclusive interview to the Evening Standard to launch Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity’s £100,000 Burns Appeal.
September 2010
29th
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HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO visited the Burns Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Tuesday 28 September.
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If you are a Foundation Trust member, you can have your say on the future of your hospital when elections to the Council of Governors are held this autumn.
27th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is hosting a special Teddy Bear Picnic for children and their teddy bears on Thursday 30 September at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, SW3.
20th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s Council of Governors has re-appointed three Non-Executive Directors to the Foundation Trust Board.
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Chelsea and Westminster is launching a new community dermatology service in Kensington and Chelsea on Monday 4 October.
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Several hundred Foundation Trust members, including many staff, attended Chelsea and Westminster’s Annual Members’ Meeting on Thursday 16 September.
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The students and teachers of the Chelsea Community Hospital School celebrated the official opening of their brand new school on Thursday 16 September.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust holds its Annual Members’ Meeting at 5:30pm on Thursday 16 September in the Restaurant on the lower ground floor of the hospital.
August 2010
20th
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A 30-minute TV documentary about the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital will be shown on Channel 4 at 7:30pm on Friday 27 August and will be available to watch again afterwards on Channel 4 4oD.
13th
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Building works to create a new Urgent Care Centre (UCC) within the current A&E Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital are due to start soon.
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The first major redevelopment of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital since it opened in 1993 is now well underway—this exciting project is due to reach some significant landmarks this month.
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The Macmillan Centre at Chelsea and Westminster has been awarded a prestigious Quality Environment Mark after a recent review of its services for cancer patients and their carers.
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Congratulations to staff at 56 Dean Street, the Trust’s sexual health and HIV centre in Soho, who have been shortlisted for the prestigious NHS Health and Social Care Awards 2010 in the ‘Success in Partnership Working’ category.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has launched a ‘No more clots’ campaign to reduce preventable venous thromboembolism (VTE) by 20% over the next year—this is one of the Trust’s priorities for quality improvement in 2010/11.
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Members of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital now have the opportunity to meet their elected representative on the Council of Governors at a new series of ‘Meet the Governors’ sessions which will be held at the hospital every month.
July 2010
23rd
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has been rated ‘Excellent’ for the three categories of Environment, Food and Privacy & Dignity in this year’s Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) assessment 2010—results for all hospitals in England have been published today by the National Patient Safety Agency.
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A 1-hour TV documentary about the work of doctors, nurses, health advisers and other staff at the West London Centre for Sexual Health, which is based at Charing Cross Hospital but is run by Chelsea and Westminster, will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday 26 July and will be available to watch again afterwards on Channel 4 4oD.
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Children’s wards Mercury and Jupiter, and the Paediatric Ambulatory Care Clinic (PACC), are moving from the First Floor to the Fourth Floor on Friday 23 July to allow building work for the extension of the hospital to get underway.
16th
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The West London branch of Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity that supports anyone affected by the death of a baby, has launched a £25,000 fundraising appeal to enable Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Maternity Unit to create a Bereavement Suite that would provide facilities and enable professional and specialist support to take place in a quieter, more homely space.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust received the award for 'Most effective benefits strategy' at the HR Excellence Awards 2010, held on 29 June.
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As all staff and visitors to the hospital will be aware, extensive works to transform the area directly in front of the main hospital entrance and the surrounding pavement has been underway for a number of months.
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Sponsored electronic information screens that were installed in three locations around the Trust in March this year have been a hit with patients.
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A new partnership between hospitals, universities, voluntary organisations and industry in North West London to improve patient care has been launched today.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the biggest HIV treatment centre in Europe and our staff have often led the way in improving services and spearheading research.
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Patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital are set to benefit from better continuity of care and smoother transfers out of hospital with the opening of a new surgical ward and combined acute medical and surgical assessment unit on Monday 5 July.
June 2010
30th
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Elections were held in June 2010 to the following constituencies of the Council of Governors.
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If you would like to support the proposed scrapping of the Western Extension of the Congestion Charging zone—which includes Chelsea and Westminster Hospital—you can have your say by taking part in a public consultation that runs until 2 August.
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If you are a Foundation Trust member, you can have your say on the future of your hospital by voting in this month’s elections to the Council of Governors.
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is included in a major BBC1 documentary series called Children’s Emergency which focuses on the work of the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS).
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56 Dean Street is now officially the busiest sexual health centre in London, according to Department of Health statistics for the 3 months from December 2009 to February 2010.
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90% of patients rate the care they receive at Chelsea and Westminster as ‘Excellent’, ‘Very good’ or ‘Good’—according to the results of the national annual inpatients survey published by the Care Quality Commission.
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Katie: My Beautiful Face, a Channel 4 documentary about a patient whose face was rebuilt thanks to the expertise of staff at Chelsea and Westminster following a horrific acid attack, has been nominated for a BAFTA—the awards ceremony will be hosted by Graham Norton at the Palladium on Sunday 6 June.
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A service of thanksgiving to celebrate the life of Caroline, Lady Rhys Williams, Chairman of Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity who died in December 2009, will be held at 2pm on Thursday 8 July in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington High Street.
May 2010
21st
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The Princess Royal Trust for Carers provides quality information, advice and support to carers nationwide through a network of 144 independently managed Carers' Centres including Carers Network Westminster.
10th
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BBC presenter Sophie Raworth opened the revamped Assisted Conception Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital during the annual hospital Open Day on Saturday 8 May.
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More than 1,500 people attended the annual Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Open Day on Saturday 8 May.
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The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Open Day on Saturday 8 May is supported by our Foundation Trust Council of Governors which includes elected representatives of patients, members of the public and staff as well as nominated representatives of local partnership organisations.
April 2010
30th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to supporting people with learning disabilities who access our services.
29th
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The Preoperative Assessment Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is moving to the Lower Ground Floor near Lift Bank C—the move is taking place over the Bank Holiday weekend and the department is due to open in the new location on Tuesday 4 May.
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If you are a Foundation Trust member, you can have your say on the future of your hospital by standing for election to the Council of Governors.
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Our annual Open Day will this year be held at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 8 May.
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Up-and-coming pianist Jianing Kong will be performing in aid of the Hospital Arts programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Tuesday 13 April at the home of Hospital Arts supporter Vernon Ellis on Queen's Gate Terrace, South Kensington.
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Our annual Open Day will this year be held at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital between 11am and 3pm on Saturday 8 May.
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A major redevelopment of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital gets underway later this month. It will improve services for patients and secure our future as a specialist hospital with a wide range of local services.
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The Council of Governors at Chelsea and Westminster includes 24 people elected by Foundation Trust members.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today (Thursday 1 April) announced plans to give Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust a licence to provide services under a new, tougher system for regulating standards in the NHS.
March 2010
29th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to confirm that it has virtually eliminated mixed sex accommodation from our hospital.
19th
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As part of its ongoing commitment to reducing accessibility barriers, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has enabled an innovative new product on its website called BrowseAloud.
11th
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HRH The Duchess of Gloucester met patients and staff in the Adult Multi-Disciplinary Clinic for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus patients during a visit to the hospital today.
5th
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The Trust has launched a new Visitors’ Policy to help ensure a positive experience for patients by giving them the best possible opportunity to rest, recover, receive care and eat meals without interruption.
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The Friends of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital are hosting two concerts at St Stephens Church (Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL) where the Imperial College School of Medicine Music Society will be performing.
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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is carrying out work to improve the public areas in front of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
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A British Red Cross service enabling people to regain their independence and confidence in the immediate discharge from hospital is appealing for volunteers. Could you help?
February 2010
23rd
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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has commenced work to improve the public areas in front of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and greatly enhance the environment around the hospital for patients and visitors.
9th
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust meets statutory requirements with regard to the carrying out of Criminal Records Bureau checks.
8th
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John Hollins and his son, BBC presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris, officially opened a unique medical service for football fans this month.
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The Nkosi Johnson Unit at the Trust’s West London Centre for Sexual Health is named after a little South African boy called Nkosi Johnson who was born HIV positive and died in 2001.
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A new exhibition now on show at Chelsea and Westminster showcases drawings made by singer Edwyn Collins during his recovery from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage.
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Congratulations to the team at 56 Dean Street, the Trust’s sexual health and HIV centre in Soho which opened last year, who are shortlisted in the Secondary Care Team of the Year category of the British Medical Journal Awards.
January 2010
20th
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The Maternity Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is delighted to announce that they have passed and received their UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Stage One Assessment.
15th
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The Trust works with other organisations to ensure that children are safeguarded. We work in partnership with local Children's Trusts and local Safeguarding Children's Boards.
8th
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A number of patients and relatives have contacted the Trust to ask if outpatient clinics and routine planned operations have been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions.
6th
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Conservative Party leader David Cameron visited the Maternity Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Sunday 3 January to meet new mothers and staff.
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With great sadness the Board of Trustees of Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity announces the untimely death of its Chairman—Caroline, Lady Rhys Williams.