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Letters: NHS database (The Independent)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Further to Frank Dunn's letter on data security (26 August), I have been a patient for some months at St George's Hospital, Tooting, where the medical care is first class, but the administration less so.

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Critical Care Area St George’s Hospital (Thinking made Easy)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:39:59 GMT

This document sets out the guideline for eye care. Very few patients in critical care will be admitted with an eye problem, however if they do have damage to their eye(s) from trauma or surgery please ensure a specialist opinion and care plan is prescribed. All other critically ill patient’s...

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Cigarette Fire Causes Death of Patient in City Hospital (Red Orbit )

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:39 GMT

A Patient died on August 19, 1983, as fire swept through a ward of seriously ill patients at St George's Hospital in Lincoln. Nurses and porters fought through the smoke-filled rooms to carry or wheel all the 12 men and women from Carlton Ward to safety as the blaze spread fiercely.

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Adelaide farmer with Congo fever dies (Herald)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:16:24 GMT

THE Adelaide farmer and hunter diagnosed with Congo fever earlier this month, died at St George‘s Hospital yesterday.

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Nurse focus of Malherbe case (Herald)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:32:18 GMT

THE skills and abilities of a former nurse at St George‘s Hospital came under the spotlight during the Malherbe trial in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.

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The World Today: Medical Records Stolen (Red Orbit )

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:00:35 GMT

SIX laptops have been stolen from a major teaching hospital. The laptops contain information about some 20,000 patients, including their names, date of birth and postcodes, a spokeswoman for St George's Hospital, in Tooting, south London, said.

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Secure docs (IT Sneak)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:59:43 GMT

As if we didn't know this already, more evidence has emerged that when it comes to data security, human beings are well thick, innit. This time the poor victims were patients at St George's hospital in Tooting, around 20,000 of them to be porecise, whose records have been stolen from said premises. A total of six unencrypted laptops holding sensitive data on them went missing a wee while...

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Six Laptop Computers Stolen From St George's Hospital in Tooting south London (Sky News)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:23:17 GMT

Six laptops containing the names and postcodes of patients have been stolen from a major teaching hospital.

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My mum [Marketing Advice Fraser Hay] (Ecademy: user blogs)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:17:18 GMT

Last week has been a hard week. A real mental roller coaster. Last weekend, My mother whilst on holiday south of the border, collapsed, and was rushed to hospital. She was then transferred to the Neural Intensive Care Unit of St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London. Diagnosis: A blood clot on the brain, and doctors were having to operate to release the pressure, and the only...

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CFS and ME, Chronic fatigue syndrome - genetic origin not only psychological (Genetics and Health)

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:36:10 GMT

(Image source: www.livingwithcfs.wordpress.com) Researchers from St George’s Hospital, University of London have identified a biological basis for 7 different genetic types of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The St George’s study looked at 55 patients from the US and UK with the condition, and carried out a genetic analysis of them and 75 healthy blood donors. It identified the...

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Brain Surgeon Operates With DIY Drill (Impact Lab)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:18:26 GMT

An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine. Henry Marsh, a senior consultant at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, has used the Bosch 9.6 volt battery-operated hand tool to open up the skulls of his patients to remove life-threatening [...]

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Home Depot for Some, Neuro Depot for Others (Medgadget)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:20:30 GMT

Yes, on the right you see a cordless medgadget used by a renowned neurosurgeon during complicated brain operations. Doctor Henry Marsh of St George's Hospital in London performs pro-bono work in Ukraine twice a year, and has to resort to cheaper tools, not exactly CE Mark approved, when performing surgeries. When working for the National Health Service, Marsh uses a £30,000 compressed-air...

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Shiv Sena MLA assaults liftman (Times of India)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:28 GMT

A lift operator in Vidhan Bhavan was admitted to St George's Hospital after a Shiv Sena MLA assaulted him.

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Malherbe case delay as ill judge recovers (Herald)

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:45 GMT

THE culpable homicide trial of two well-known doctors at St George‘s Hospital was postponed for another week in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.

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Cancer campaigner succumbs to disease (Herald)

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:54:52 GMT

AWARD-WINNING breast cancer campaigner Brenda Foster died on Wednesday evening at St George‘s Hospital in Port Elizabeth.

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Star of The Bill 'slashes wrists' on set after being sacked from show (Daily Mail)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:47:01 GMT

Veteran TV star Jeff Stewart has been hospitalised after reportedly slashing his wrists on the set of The Bill moments after he was fired from the police show. Stewart, who played PC Reg Hollis since the show begun in 1984, was rushed to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London

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Authority of expert in St George‘s hysterectomy case questioned (Herald)

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:53:46 GMT

THE culpable homicide trial of two high-profile St George‘s Hospital doctors resumed in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.

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Superbugs Increase Locally, Decrease Nationally (Londonist)

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:27:11 GMT

St George’s Hospital has reported over 100 deaths from hospital superbugs. 116 people have died from MRSA and Clostridium difficile at the Tooting hospital in the last four years. The report comes on the coattails of St George’s clinical rating being lowered from 'good' to 'fair'; an adjustment influenced largely by the hospital's failure to combat the superbugs....

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