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Ashford and St Peter’s successfully shifts to virtual consultations TThousands of patients have been able to attend their appointments during lockdown without having to leave home, thanks to the growing use of virtual consultations. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to decreasing face-to-face appointments in order to reduce travel mileage, improve patient care and increase efficiency and capacity of outpatient services ... read more |
The local hospitals are working together to implement an electronic patient record solution setting the scene for joined up care across the county. Surrey Safe Care consists of a series of software applications that bring together and digitalise clinical and administrative data to replace paper-based records. The system, provided by Cerner Corporation UK, will improve processes and increase safety and efficiency for patients ... read more |
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St Peter’s Hospital finds new ways of keeping patients in touch with families The Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) team has introduced a new way of keeping in touch with parents of babies being treated at St Peter’s Hospital. vCreate is a secure video messaging service that enables staff in Neonatal units to send photo and video updates to parents of premature and sick babies, for times when they are unable to be with their baby in the unit ... read more |
Trust awarded up to £1.5 Million for ground-breaking COVID-19 clinical trial Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ in collaboration with researchers in China, and with funding from LifeArc, is set to commence a clinical trial of using Leflunomide, a drug licensed to treat rheumatoid arthritis – in hospitalised COVID-19 patients ... read more |
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Trust joins fight against Coronavirus in ground-breaking new study Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ has joined the fight against Coronavirus by recruiting COVID-19 patients to participate in a ground-breaking new study of the disease performed by the partnership between the GenOMICC Study Consortium (led by the University of Edinburgh) and Genomics England ... read more |
The Stephanie Marks Diabetes Resource Centre Reaches its 10 Year Anniversary The Stephanie Marks Diabetes Resource Centre celebrates a decade of patient care since it was officially opened on the 20th May 2010 by Sir Ian Botham OBE ... read more |
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