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Ibis re-opens Norfolk Hotel on London Road
At least there’s one new business opened in the north of Croydon, with the overhaul and re-branding of the Norfolk Hotel, opposite Mayday Hospital near Thornton Heath. Multi-national French hotel chain...
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CQC report tells us nothing we did not know about Mayday
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The hospital inspectors have been and gone. Now, says DAVID CALLAM, time is overdue for re-modelling the A&E department of our local hospital As a volunteer of more than 20...
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Philp backs calls for more questions over Croydon PCT
Chris Philp, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, used the platform of a local debating society this week to call for greater accountability over the mysteriously vanishing £27...
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St Helier and Mayday’s futures thrown into doubt once more
The clue was in the name. BSBV was supposed to stand for “Better Services Better Value”, but the BS bit gave it away. Yesterday, after three wasted years and £8.2 million of tax-payers’ cash squandered...
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Time to try something new with Purley’s £11m hospital
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Barely a year since major works were completed and it re-opened, Purley Hospital has switched to reduced hours because of… lack of use. DAVID CALLAM sees this as a missed...
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Help to make The Smallest Things matter on Prematurity Day
CATRIONA OGILVY is a Croydon mum whose two sons were both born prematurely. Today is World Prematurity Day, and here she explains why that matters, and how you can help On World Prematurity Day,...
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Croydon NHS crisis as only 51% of ambulances achieve target
Lives of the elderly, frail and ill could be at risk this winter, as Croydon’s NHS ambulance service struggles to cope with demand. Barely half of ambulance call-outs in Croydon achieved their target...
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Mayday from Mayday as A&E declares “major incident”
Mayday is in the bottom 50 performing hospitals in the country, at a time when NHS hospital accident and emergency departments are performing worse than at any time in the past decade, figures from the...
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‘Flaky staffing’ led to emergency at A&E says hospital chief
The “internal major incident” which was declared at Mayday Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department earlier this month was caused by the coincidence of the worst winter for flu-type illnesses since...
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Croydon NHS Public Involvement Forum, Fairfield Halls, Sep 23
Everyone needs urgent care and fast treatment when they feel really unwell, or have a serious illness. Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group is developing proposals to improve health services in Croydon...
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NHS seeks your views on future services for the over-65s
NHS Croydon Clincial Commissioning Group (CCG) and Croydon Council are working together to deliver a new approach to commissioning services for people over 65, known as Outcomes Based Commissioning...
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Mayday! Tooting A&E closure puts extra strain on Croydon
One of south London’s biggest hospitals had to close its doors to admissions in its Accident and Emergency department last Friday, causing a knock-on effect to other NHS hospitals elsewhere in the...
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A&Es fail to assist police with enquiries on knife crime
John Goulston, the chief executive of Mayday, could find himself summoned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson to explain why Croydon’s biggest hospital has not been helping the police with their...
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Capital’s cost of living leaves London short of 10,000 nurses
London’s NHS nursing shortage has got significantly worse in the past year, with more than 10,000 unfilled posts in the capital’s health trusts in 2015, according to figures published today by the...
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Watchdog is seeking volunteers to check on health services
Healthwatch Croydon, the official consumer group for local health and social care services, is seeking volunteers. They say, “We make a difference to health and social care services in the borough by...
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NHS ‘engagement’ on GP hubs leaves us all with a nose bleed
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Amid the mounting controversy about the effectiveness of the NHS’s 111 phone line service and junior doctors working all hours and over weekends, the local CCG – Clinical...
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Former NHS nurse now exhibits her pictures at Mayday
The photography of a Croydon woman who used to work in the NHS is now part of a permanent exhibition at Mayday Hospital. Jackie Morrison is a qualified nurse and health visitor with more than 30 years’...
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Hospital closure plans could put added pressure on Mayday
Plans due to be published next month could see 650,000 extra people in south-west London depending upon the already under-pressure Mayday, Kingston and St George’s hospitals for their urgent and...
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IVF treatment could be withdrawn in Croydon in NHS cuts
IVF treatment could be withdrawn from health services in Croydon as one cut-back to balance the books of the under pressure local clinical commissioning group (CCG), was yesterday placed under “special...
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Croydon Health Services 2016 annual meeting, Sep 7
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