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An online questionnaire that helps up to half of all patients avoid coming into hospital for a pre-operative appointment has allowed a London hospital to almost double its capacity for ensuring patients are fit for surgery.

A care co-ordination platform that helps the trust provide acute-level care in patients’ homes has saved more than 20,000 ‘bed days’ by helping support early discharges and reducing admissions.

The trust has been awarded a Pastoral Care Quality Award for its work supporting overseas nurses and midwives coming to work at the trust.

Post-natal depression (PND) is well documented among women but a trust researcher has highlighted its impact on men in an interview with GQ magazine.

Patients’ ability to access and add to their medical records in the same way health professionals can is giving them a greater say in their care.

The trust plans to welcome more Physician Associates (PAs) to its hospitals.

You never know what is going to come through the door in A&E, which is why we are looking for nurses with the right stuff to join one of the biggest and busiest emergency rooms in the UK.

A proposal to bring together most routine inpatient orthopaedic surgery in north west London in a new centre of excellence at Central Middlesex Hospital was approved today (Tuesday 21 March) by NHS North West London, the sector’s integrated care board. The proposal incorporates feedback from a 13-week public consultation that closed earlier this year involving almost 2,000 people.

It’s World TB Day this week which raises awareness about the ongoing fight to globally eradicate the disease. We look back at a neighbouring hospital at the forefront of the fight against TB at the beginning of the 20^th Century.

Patients at Central Middlesex Hospital diagnosed with sight loss can now benefit from professional support thanks to a newly appointed Eye Care Liaison Officer (ECLO).