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St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust Annual Report 2010/11
21 September 2011

The report highlights how the trust is living its values, launched in April 2010 – excellent, kind, responsible, respectful - which set out the standards of behaviour expected throughout the organisation.

Download you copy here http://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/annual/

I hope people will enjoy reading about how our staff are living our values and our achievements during 2010/11. The past year has given us much to be proud of. We have seen many exciting developments that have helped to strengthen the trust's reputation as a leading provider of world class care, whilst recording a financial surplus for the fourth year in a row.

Last year St George's Hospital was rated the best in the country for stroke services, and we saw the opening of the hyper-acute-stroke-unit which provides round the clock access to emergency stroke care for patients from across southwest London and Surrey. The last 12 months have also seen St George's Hospital established as the major trauma centre for southwest London, dealing with around 85 of the most serious and complex injuries from across the region each month.

In October 2010 the trust also became responsible for delivering a range of specialist community services provided across the borough and in people's homes following our integration with Community Services Wandsworth. This merger is giving us the opportunity to redesign services and improve the healthcare choices available to local people by providing more care in their own homes, reducing unnecessary admissions to hospital and helping patients leave hospital as soon as it is safe for them to do so.

If you would like to be sent a copy of the annual report summary in the post, please contact the communications team on 020 8725 5151 or at communications@stgeorges.nhs.uk

We would really like to know what you think of our annual report and the annual report summary. Your feedback will help us to improve the information in next year's report. You can us what you think by completing our survey at www.surveymonkey.com/s/P8G8532or by contacting the communications team on the number and email address above.