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Dr Mike Baxter retires after 20 years |
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Written by Communications Team
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Dr Mike Baxter, Consultant and Medical Director at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has retired from the NHS and from over 20 years service with the Trust. Mike first joined Ashford and St Peter’s in 1992 as a consultant diabetologist and endocrinologist, becoming Clinical Director of medicine in 1995, a post he held for seven years, before becoming the Trust’s Medical Director ten years ago in 2002. Around a hundred members of staff – past and present – came to wish him well on Wednesday 25th January at his leaving party.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 03 February 2012 17:48 )
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Friends donate equipment worth £30,000 |
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Written by Communications Team
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The St Peter’s Hospital League of Friends has donated £30,000 to buy 30 new syringe drivers, which are small portable devices that give medication continuously to relieve pain and other symptoms in patients.
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Ensuring regular ward rounds |
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Written by Communications Team
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Last week David Cameron emphasised the importance of hospitals going back to basics, highlighting hourly ward rounds by nursing staff as a particular example. Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust launched hourly rounding last year on all their wards, which has made a real difference to patient care. Matron Justine Hillier explains more.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 13 January 2012 17:14 )
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With over four thousand babies born a year, the maternity department at St Peter’s Hospital is always busy. However, between the 9th and 10th January the team was particularly hectic with the unusual arrival of four sets of twins!
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Bringing training to life |
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Written by Communications Team
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Clinical training for staff at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals is moving to the next dimension with the recent opening of a new Clinical Simulation Suite at Ashford Hospital. The state of the art training centre features a life-like mannequin which, via a high tech computer and other pieces of medical equipment, gives staff the most realistic training scenarios possible without using a ‘real’ patient.
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