News from Sutton LINk

Come rain, shine, sleet or snow – local hospitals are read
03 December 2012
A £1.4 million plan to deal with the challenges of winter, including recruiting more nurses and doctors to work A&E have been inveiled

Hospitals get thumbs up from health watchdog
03 December 2012
St Helier and Queen Mary's Hospitals for Children have received a clean bill of health after a recent Care Quality Commission inspection

Keep warm, keep well during the cold weather spell
03 December 2012
With winter almost upon us, doctors and nurses at Epsom, Sutton and St Helier hospitals are advising local people to do all they can to ‘keep warm, keep well’.

Help to stop the spread of the ‘winter vomiting’ bug
26 November 2012
Doctors are asking local people not to visit the hospitals if they are suffering from winter-related viral infections, particularly norovirus (the 'winter vomiting' bug) in order to protect patients.

£22,000 charity boost for palliative care patients
26 November 2012
Generous donation has been officially presented to the team at Epsom Hospital who care for seriously ill patients.

Staff set for a hair-raising month for men’s health
19 November 2012
Staff from Epsom, Sutton and St Helier hospitals are set for a hair-raising experience this month, as they grow moustaches to raise money and awareness for men’s health.

Trust staff mark World Radiography Day with exhibition
19 November 2012
100 people visit two day exhibition as Epsom Hospital marks World Radiography Day (8 November 2012) .

Bouncing birthday bash for St Helier’s birth centre
19 November 2012
A crowd of new mums and their bouncing babies joined midwives and other staff from the birth centre at St Helier Hospital recently, to mark the unit’s third birthday.