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Staff from Teddington Memorial Hospital and community supporters joined Twickenham MP, Munira Wilson, to celebrate the newly enhanced facilities for children and teenagers in the Hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre and garden.

Kingston Hospital Charity has raised a record-breaking £59,196 from its annual charity walk - A Night to Remember.

Members of the public are welcome to attend our Board meetings, which are held in person, and with an option to join virtually.

The NHS has launched the biggest ever public conversation about its future. We want to hear from you so we can build a health service that's truly fit for the future.

On Thursday 7 November, Caroline Clarke, Regional Director for the NHS in London, and Jane Fryer, Deputy Regional Medical Director, visited Kingston Hospital.

Following several years of close partnership working and shared leadership, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust formally joined together with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) on 1 November 2024. Together they are now called Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

A team of finance colleagues and inclusion and diversity ambassadors for South West London have been shortlisted for the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2024.

On Friday 25 October, a new Cardiac Investigations Unit officially opened at Kingston Hospital. Guests including former patients and colleagues, partners and contractors, were invited to tour the unit, which offers a wide range of cardiology diagnostic tests for local patients.

Dr Hilary Jones recently shared his thanks to Kingston Maternity Unit, live on ITV’s Lorraine, following the birth of his grandchild.

Team GB rowing stars Lola Anderson and Holly Dunford joined Kingston Hospital Charity’s special Night to Remember memory walk, to raise money to support bereaved families at Kingston Hospital.

A volunteer community rehabilitation service has almost tripled the functional fitness and health of care home residents and patients in the community who are at risk of deconditioning or falls, according to a new Insight and Impact report.

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Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) are holding a joint Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Members Meeting on Monday 30 September 2024.

Kingston Hospital and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) are inviting patients to share their experiences of using our services.

At Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, we fully endorse the NHS England London anti-racism statement (below) and we are committed to ensuring the principles are adopted through our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy.

Last week we welcomed the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) back to Kingston Hospital to judge our annual planters competition.

A new ultrasound scanner, funded by Kingston Hospital Charity, is helping to provide a ‘one stop’ service for patients visiting Kingston Hospital with suspected gynaecological cancer.

As of 1 July 2024, community healthcare services in Hounslow are provided by West London NHS Trust.

Jo Farrar, CEO of Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) has been listed in the ‘HSJ Top 50’ list of chief executives.

Kingston Hospital and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) have recently signed the Carers Trust’s Young Carers Covenant, pledging our support to take practical and meaningful action to support young carers and young adult carers.

At Kingston Hospital and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH), we are planning to develop a new website. It is important that the new website works for patients, service users and local people, and we want to get your views as we start this project.

Midwife, Perrine Dhaisne, and senior house officer (SHO), Sam Maisey, have been appointed into a new clinical innovation lead role for sustainability across HRCH and Kingston Hospital, thanks to funding from Kingston Hospital Charity.

Kingston Hospital’s maternity team held an interactive event on Thursday 18 April to listen to and improve the experiences of birthing families, particularly families from diverse backgrounds.

Our new maternity triage at Kingston Hospital was officially opened on Wednesday 17 April.

NHS England has confirmed the appointment of Phil Hall as Chair in Common across Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) and Kingston Hospital.

Kingston Hospital’s on-site staff nursery, Honey Bees, has maintained a Good rating by Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) following its inspection at the end of February.

Kingston Hospital’s innovative placement programme for second and third year nursing students, which involves them spending six weeks with Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) in cancer and palliative care, has been shortlisted for the ‘Placement of the Year’ category in the Student Nursing Times Awards.

Findings from the Care Quality Commission’s National Maternity Survey have recognised the high level of care provided at Kingston Hospital’s maternity service. 

The Body Coach, online fitness sensation and author, Joe Wicks MBE, joined staff and patients, alongside retired consultant paediatrician, Dr Andrew Winrow, to open Kingston Hospital’s new children’s cancer unit.

Kingston Hospital has recently been awarded ‘Gold’ status as a National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider, under a new three-tier award scheme recognising successful completion of a national programme of local data audits.

The Kingston and Richmond virtual ward team have helped develop a new national e-learning course about virtual ward and urgent community response skills and capabilities.

Music producer, Nick Hogarth, currently being treated for cancer at Kingston Hospital in South West London has teamed up with his nurse and a Kingston Hospital choir to release a Christmas single to raise money for Kingston Hospital Charity.

Julian Glover, Bond villain and voice of the giant animatronic spider Aragog, in Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets, recently opened Kingston Hospital’s new retina eye unit, a centre for excellence in the treatment of retinal conditions. 

On 16 November, the winners of the first joint Kingston Hospital and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) annual Staff Awards were announced during a glittering ceremony at Twickenham Stadium, generously funded by Kingston Hospital Charity and the HRCH Charity.

Kingston Hospital has been awarded the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award, recognising the support we provide to our internationally educated nurses and midwives.

Kingston Hospital Charity is delighted to announce a merger with The Friends of Kingston Hospital.

Specialist Deconditioning Physiotherapist, Brooke Holden, has recently started a new role, funded by Kingston Hospital Charity. Partnering with care homes and GP practices in Kingston and Richmond, Brooke can now work with a team of trained volunteers to tackle the risks associated with deconditioning across our communities.

Patient feedback is key to helping us deliver the best possible care. Each year, Kingston Hospital takes part in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inpatient survey, which is part of a national programme to improve patients’ experiences while in hospital.