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Charles Dickens might never have sat down and written another book without the help of surgeon Frederick Salmon, the founder of St Mark’s Hospital.

Nurse Patricia McGinty finally says goodbye to Northwick Park Hospital later this summer after a career spanning more than 45 years.

Read the latest news about our hospitals and community services in Our Trust. 

In this issue, a consultant returns to Iraq to run a mobile health clinic, a builder retrains as a midwife and we celebrate our ‘heath care heroes’ at the annual staff excellence awards.

A local sister, who has spent the past 15 years looking after the sick and terminally ill at Meadow House Hospice in Ealing, has been presented  with a medal.

A brown envelope’ usually means a bill so Claire Taylor was shocked to see Prince Charles had written saying she had been awarded an MBE for services to colorectal cancer nursing.

Staff from London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust joined revellers in the Pride in London parade, celebrating ‘50 years of queer revolt.’

A Londoner with a family history of diabetes and amputation had her foot saved in a pioneering procedure that saw vascular interventional radiologists restoring the blood flow with the use of micro-wires and balloons.

A big thank you to hospital volunteer Jatin Shah who donated stickers crayons, colouring pens and books to paediatric A&E. Jatin funded his donation by selling 500 home-made gift bags earlier in the year.

St Mark’s work was featured on BBC One today (Tue) in One day that changed my life following Rachel who undergoes high risk bowel surgery to improve her quality of life.

Parents whose children attend A&E with fever or a suspected infection are being shown a video on sepsis before being discharged.