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New Admissions and Discharge Lounge at Ashford Hospital
Written by Communications Team   

Today sees the official opening of a new Admissions and Discharge Lounge on Dickens Ward at Ashford Hospital in Middlesex.

The Lounge has been built with funds from Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Innovation Fund, set up by Chief Executive Andrew Liles to finance new projects proposed by staff to improve patient care.
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Christmas Babies
Written by Communications Team   

Seven babies were born at St Peter’s Hospital on Christmas Day. 3 boys and 4 girls. The first baby (a girl) to be born was at 01:04 to a family from Chertsey and the last baby, a boy, born at 23:43 from Virginia Water.
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Festive spirit at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals
Written by Communications Team   

Over the Christmas period Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals will be caring for patients around the clock as usual. Nurses, doctors and other ‘front line’ staff will be busy looking after patients on the wards and keeping emergency services running. Whilst an essential team of support staff such as housekeepers, porters and receptionists will help everything operate smoothly.
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Heating happiness for babies at St Peter’s
Written by Communications Team   

Over the past year, members of staff from Labour Ward and other departments at St Peter’s Hospital have been raising money for a special ‘hot cot’. The fundraising drive has been led by Nursery Nurse Sarah Dunstall, who said: “Overall we have raised about £1600 to purchase the cot; this includes generous support from local businesses such as Waitrose who chose us as one of their ‘green token’ charities and Pyrford Social Club, who have held two dart competitions and a raffle.”
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Making the right investments for high quality patient care
Written by Communications Team   

At Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals, putting patient care first means making the right investment decisions so the Trust can continue to develop high quality local health services. For some time, the Trust’s Peterbus service – a local community bus service set up to help patients travel to and from St Peter’s Hospital – has been losing money which, as passenger numbers continue to drop, is now posing a risk to funds that should be spent on direct patient care.
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