Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s chief executive has welcomed a review of emergency and maternity services, which names Croydon as a major acute hospital, under two proposed options for future care in south west London.

A report published this week by the London Cancer Alliance (LCA) highlights the good work done by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust to tackle cancer across Croydon and south London.

Trust has today (Tuesday 30 April) announced the appointment of new Board members and senior staff, as Chair Mike Bell, takes up his role permanently.

Following recent media coverage of the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee report into the finances of NHS Croydon, we would like reassure our staff, patients and local community and clarify that this report does not relate to the financial position of our organisation (Croydon Health Services NHS Trust), our community services provision or Croydon University Hospital.

Whilst there is no measles outbreak currently in London, it is worth reminding parents that vaccination is the best protection for your children.

The Trust’s new Chief Operating Officer, Karen Breen, is to take up her duties later this month

Congratulations to our Teenage Pregnancy and Sexual Health Outreach team

89% of our patients rate our overall cancer care service as good or excellent.

Big Health Check 2012/13.

In memory of Mrs Myfanwy McConnell, who passed away peacefully on Queen’s 1 Ward at Croydon University Hospital in November, her family raised more than £2,500 to buy needed equipment for the ward.

Have you seen the latest posters and billboards in Croydon aimed at encouraging people to take the HIV test by visiting www.thinkhiv.org.uk website?

Croydon Health Services (CHS) Trust has agreed a set of Governance Review recommendations which will put the Trust in a stronger position to deliver improvements to the quality of patient healthcare.

At a time of increasing demand for our services the Trust is taking action to improve the care we provide for the most seriously ill patients

Consultant Breast Surgeon Mr Stephen Ebbs and Consultant Gastroenterologist Dr Michael Mendall have been recognised in the 'Doctors Guide’ produced by Tatler magazine.

The Trust congratulates the Stroke team for its excellent performance at the Stroke Unit Annual Assessment 2012/13.

Dr Mike Simmonds, GP Partner at Queenhill Medical Practice, has recently been appointed Macmillan GP for Croydon. 

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has today announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive. 

Trust awarded over £300,000 of government money to continue its work to refurbish and upgrade the Maternity Unit at Croydon University Hospital.

The NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) has today (23 january 2013) confirmed the appointment of two new non-executive directors at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

We are making changes to the Monday to Friday x-ray walk-in service at Croydon University Hospital (CUH) and at Purley War Memorial Hospital. 

The urogyanecology team attended the International Urogynaecological Association (IUGA) meeting in Australia in September 2012.

The Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at PurleyHospital has re-opened after being closed for 7 days to allow essential building work to be carried out.

The eagerly awaited Acute Medical Unit (AMU) opened on Saturday 24 November.

Self Care week - 12 - 18 November 2012

Pilot at the hospital

Following on from the Croydon Respiratory Team (CRT) launch in May 2012, we thought we would update you on the development of the Respiratory Hot Clinic.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published the results of its repeat visit in September 2012 to check our compliance with two essential standards:

Well received across our wards

Local people have had their first view of the proposed designs for the £11.15 million refurbishment of Purley Hospital.

All are welcome at a meeting on Tuesday 9 October at 7.30pm to find out more about this exciting project to refurbish the healthcare facility in Purley.

We are supporting the national dementia campaign.

September’s issue of  the Sex and Relationship Education bulletin produced by the Teenage Pregnancy and Sexual Health Outreach Team

What better time to try quitting smoking than during the month of Stoptober?

Trust welcomes latest recommendations in Better Services Better Value review.

Sanjay Sinha tells us about the cycle time trial

In April this year, the Trust created four new directorates to enable us to work better.

Full Rollout of Sunquest Ice across all 63 GP Practices in Croydon has been successfully completed in February 2012. Sunquest Ice provides electronic requesting and result reporting for Pathology and Radiology and is now fully integrated into GP systems.

The Neuropsychology service at Broad Green offers a bi-monthly programme of educational groups for service users and family members or carers. 

Croydon University Hospital and Children’s Universal Services

Several of you attended the CRT Launch on the 22 May and there was very positive feedback.

The service is available over seven days, 9am-5pm.  There are now 364 patients under CRT and activity is increasing steadily.

NHS London has given formal approval for £11.1millon capital money to be invested in the refurbishment of Purley War Memorial Hospital.

Croydon’s annual update on sexual and reproductive health will be held on 2 July. 

It has been agreed by the Croydon Diabetes Network Clinical Guidance Subgroup that the Trust should go ahead and stop dual reporting of HbA1c in both IFCC and DCCT units

The nurse led Enuresis Service has moved to Shirley Clinic, 135 Shirley Road, Croydon, CR0 7LR

Thank you for your support over the years in co-managing patients on postal anticoagulation dosing. As you know the commissioners have set up local clinics in primary care settings and our postal anticoagulation service will be phased out gradually over the next few months (by the end of 31st August 2012).

This month the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre at Croydon University Hospital achieved a quality service standard award for the fourth successive year.

We understand how unpleasant the sight of pests can be for visitors, patients and staff and do all we can to eradicate them quickly and safely.

Many local people are interested in the plans to refurbish Purley hospital so to keep you up to date we have produced a brief summary of the milestones we need to achieve and how we will go about it.

Since last summer, the four acute Trusts in the region have been looking at how we can all work together to review and improve the way that hospital-based Pathology services are provided. This review has now taken a step forward with the agreement of all four Trusts to put together a business case for developing a single pathology service for the whole region.