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Issue 20 I Friday 30 June 2006

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AND THEY’RE OFF...SIXTY athletes dipped into more than just their wallets a fortnight ago when they braved the waters of the Ser-pentine Lake in Hyde Park on the first leg of a charity tria-thalon.

The two-day contest, or-ganised by the Aplastic Anae-mia Trust in aid of a project to refurbish the hospital’s Ruth

Myles Unit, raised more than £30k. The charity has raised £0.5m for the project so far.

Spurred on by the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the athletes completed a 1km swim of the Serpentine, a 10k run around Hyde Park followed by a gruelling 100k bike ride round the Paris countryside the next day. n

BIRTHDAY HONOUR FOR CHAPLAIN Ian Ainsworth Smith awarded MBE- Page 3

CANCER services at St George’s have been praised following a ma-jor review by a team of outside experts.

An army of 30 assessors including doctors, nurses, patients and members of the Department of Health’s Cancer Action Team spent two days at the hospital to assess the quality of the Trust’s can-cer care against 600 na-tional standards.

The visit, part of the Na-tional Cancer Peer Review, examined clinical data and patient testimonies,

and carried out in-depth interviews with 14 clinical teams, patients and man-agers.

An interim report prais-es the hospital for several aspects of care including the ‘strong expertise in diagnosis and treatment [that exists] in many ar-eas’, the re-organisation of chemotherapy services to reduce wait-ing times, and the quality of pa-

tient information.The hospital also

achieved 100 per cent compliance with the standard for intrathecal chemotherapy - one of only three trusts to have been given a perfect score by the national exercise to date.

Lead nurse for cancer, Catherine Oakley, says: “This is terrific news for the hospital and every-one who works in cancer services.

“Although we have to

wait for the official re-port, the initial feedback is extremely positive and we are delighted to have done so well.”

St George’s is one of the leading provid-ers of cancer services in South West London. It performs 75 per cent of all complex cancer surgery in the region and makes around 1,690 new cancer diagnoses every year.

Later this year, the can-cer unit plans to launch a benefits advice scheme for patients with the Citizens Advice Bureau and Macmillan Cancer Relief. n

Peer review applauds cancer teams, innovative care, waiting times and support for patients.

CANCER SERVICES PRAISEDLATEST NEWS

Meet the group that’s a cross between a watchdog and an agony aunt!- See page 4 for more

GOT KIDS? Get help with childcare costs - page 5

Find out who was head-hunted by renowned brain surgeon Sir Wylie

McKissock?- p. 4

Chemo nurse Diane O’Connell with a patient

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Complete the puzzle that’s taken the nationby storm and win a Peabody’s coffee and a mouth-watering muffin!

SPLASH FOR CASH: One of the athletes takes the plunge.

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THE HOSPITAL’S policy on HIV test-ing has been rewritten in response to concerns that some patients may have been tested for the disease without their informed consent.

The policy now includes a ‘straight-forward’ risk assessment form to help doctors identify patients that should be referred to specialist HIV services and ensure patients understand the pur-pose, risks, harms and benefits of being tested.

The form contains a series of ques-tions which doctors must ask and a checklist reminding them of the infor-mation they must pass on to patients.

Louise de Board, an HIV

counsel-l o r ,

says: “ I n

the past, some patients have been ill prepared for test results as a thorough risk assessment was not carried out be-forehand,” says Louise.

“We also know of some cases where patients were tested without informed consent.

“The revised policy for testing and the new check list should help staff with their decision-making and increase con-fidence in HIV testing throughout the Trust.”

The new policy is available to down-load from the Clinical Infection Unit’s section on the intranet.

Department of Health guidance states that testing for HIV infections should only be undertaken with informed con-sent.

Failure to gain a patient’s consent for any type of procedure or test may result in legal action, criminal charges and a complaint to a practitioner’s

regulatory body for misconduct.

CLINICAL NEWS...CLINICAL NEWS...CLINICAL NEWS...CLINICAL NEWS...

Is it a bird, is it a plane?

SEVEN midwives are to take part in a charity sky-dive at the end of July in a bid to raise funds for a bereveament room on the labour ward.

The midwives, who ad-mit they are completely ‘crazy’, need £5,000 to fur-nish a room where par-ents can grieve in private after the loss of a child.

Speaking to the Ga-zette, the midwives said: “We all think we must be

crazy to be doing this, but we all believe in what we’re raising the money for.”

The jump will take place on Saturday 29 July and with only a few weeks to go before they throw themselves out of that plane, the midwives have raised £270 so far.

To make a donation, visit www.justgiving.com/extrememidwives.

Er, no, it’s seven ‘crazy’ midwives...

FLYING MIDWIVES:The one time they

won’t be cutting any cords

NEW HIV TEST GUIDELINES TO IMPROVE TAKING OF CONSENT

Dan Pople, 27: “We need to step it up a gear if we’re going to bring the cup home and have ‘the world at our feet.”

Heather Hearty, 27 (left) with Emily Lloyd: “It’s sad when the team comes under fire from the commentators - no-one appreciates how well we’ve done so far.”

Alex Sarkodie, 25, supports England but also his home country of Ghana: “England needs more control in the midfield and has got to play better in the second half.”

Colin Gentile, 46, supports England but had money on Ecuador: (Whoops! - Ed.) “It’s been a disappointing performance so far but I have a funny feeling England will do it.”

WELL, they did it: England’s 1-0 victory against Ecuador last Saturday secures a place for Sven and his boys in the quarter fi-nals of the World Cup.

But how have they played so far? Do they have what it takes to

make it through to the final on July 9?

We put four staff on the (penalty) spot and asked them to rate England’s chances of winning the tourna-ment.

Here’s what they had to say...

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A WOMAN who was given a pacemaker to repair a coronary condition has raised £1.5k for the hospi-tal by completing the Lon-don marathon.

Nuala Lynch, aged 38 from Sutton, ran the 26-mile course along with thousands of other com-petitors at the end of April and crossed the finishing line after six hours and 25 minutes.

A keen athelete who has run the marathon twice before, Nuala was diag-nosed with super ventricu-lar tachycardia in 1997.

“I was absolutely ex-hausted but I did it,” says Nuala, who ran into prob-lems towards the end of the race and had to re-ceive trackside care from the event’s medi-cal team.

“I really be-

gan to struggle at the 22nd mile but I kept thinking about the hospital.

“Everyone was so caring and attentive.

“So far I have raised over £1.5k through donations from friends and family. But I don’t know the grand total yet. The cheques keep rolling in!”

The money she raised will be going to the hospi-tal’s pacemaker unit, which fits up to 600 pacemakers and sees 4,000 patients every year.

Sue Jones, Pacing Service Manager, says: “It’s such a boost for our team. Nuala is such a good sport and she did so well in the marathon.

“We are all really im-pressed with what she

achieved.“She is a very

brave lady.” n

SETTING THE PACE: Marathon patient raises £1.5k for heart unit

FUNDRAISING NEWS

PRIDE OF PACE: (Left to right) Cardiac patient Nuala Lynch with Sue Jones, Pacing Services Manager.

MBE FOR CHAPLAIN IAN!THE Reverend Canon Ian Ainsworth-Smith was awarded the Member-ship of the Order of the British Empire a fort-night ago for his services to the NHS.

A chaplain at the hos-pital since 1973, Ian is due to retire next month after 33 years of ministry at St George’s.

Speaking about his award, Ian said:

“It is a humbling expe-rience to have had the opportunity to meet so many people over the past three decades. Their

willingness to share so much of themselves is something I shall never forget.

“While it is a tremen-dous privilege to receive the award, what I hope the honour draws atten-tion to is the marvellous work of the multi-faith chaplaincy team, which over the years has pro-vided spiritual comfort to thousands of patients and their families at times of great sadness and anguish.

“I shall take into my retirement many happy

memories of St George’s, and I am so grateful for the times I have been able to share in the life of this wonderful hospital.”

Ian, who has also been an Honorary Canon of Southwark Cathedral since 1995, was born in North London and trained for the Church of England Ministry at Cambridge University and in the USA.

Congratulating Ian on his award, the hospital’s chief executive, Peter Homa, said:

“If anyone deserves this birthday honour, it’s Ian.

“He has invested so much of his life in the service of this hospital and its patients, and there can be no finer tribute to a man who has put thousands of other

people before himself. “Ian is such an impor-

tant figure in our com-munity and we will be very sad to see him leave the hospital when he re-tires next month.” n

GO IN PEACE:Chaplain Ian is

to retire next month

There will be a farewell party for Ian on Tues-day 4 July, between 2.30pm and 5pm in the Philip Constable Board room.

Read a personal tribute to Ian by Chaplain Hilary Johnson - page 7

CARDIAC outpatients be-

came the venue for an im-

promptu concert two weeks

ago when the BBC singers

popped in to bring out the

beat in heart patients and

their relatives.

The choir visited 11 pa-

tient areas in the hospital,

including two elderly wards

and the Ruth Myles Unit. n

BEEB SINGERS STAVE OFF WAITING

BLUES FOR HEART PATIENTS

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CAPTIONCOMPETITIONWELL, we couldn’t pass up an opportunity for a caption competition, now, could we?

What are those two patients in the picture REALLY thinking?

Send your funny captions to the Com-munications Unit, 1st Floor, Grosvenor Wing.

The best caption will win a coffee from Pea-bodys.

THEY describe them-selves as a cross be-tween an ‘agony aunt’ and a ‘watchdog’ - and now a hospital group is appealing for doc-tors, nurses and stu-dents who face ethical conundrums to come to them with their di-lemmas.

Chaired by Profes-sor Nigel Eastman, Professor of Law and Ethics in Psychiatry at the Medical School, the group, called the Clinical Ethics Com-mittee, was formed in 2000 with a remit to ‘explore the ethical as-

pects of patient care and clinical policies’.

Members of the group include clini-cians from a wide range of specialties, together with lay and faith members of the hospital and medical school.

Prof Eastman ex-plains: “Clinical ethics can seem a complicat-ed issue and can be easily overlooked or pushed to one side.

“The purpose of the group is to be a sounding board for ethnical problems faced by staff but also

a protector of the hos-pital’s ethical values.” q For more informa-tion about the group, call Prof Eastman on ext 6667 or e-mail neastman@sgul.ac.uk.

WANTED: Group seeks health professionals in ethical jams

CLINICAL NEWS

GAIL THOMP-SON MEDICAL SECRETARY

Who are you and what do you do?My name is Gail Thomp-son and I work as a PA to Henry Marsh, a neurosur-geon.

Life is never dull work-ing for Henry. He is a very caring surgeon but he is prone to buck the estab-lishment. I prefer to think

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he is ‘misunderstood’.

Describe a typical day?No matter what you make up your mind to do, it never turns out that way - particularly at the mo-ment when the Trust is undergoing such change.

Apart from the usual office things that most busy medical secretaries are required to do, a large

part of the day is spent taking calls from anx-

ious and distressed patients and rela-

tives. You have to be fairly

calm and laid back about things to deal with them.

Patients can be difficult because of their anxie-

ties, and some days I go

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a large glass of wine and ask myself “why do I do this job?”

However, by the follow-ing morning I have usual-ly forgotten the problems of the previous day and throw myself into another day of phone calls.

What do you love about your job?

Patients appreciate knowing that somebody is always at the end of the telephone to help, a voice that they are famil-

iar with. Continuity is very im-

portant for patients and I believe that knowing there is always somebody they can ring for help and advice can, in some ways, be as important as the actual treatment they re-ceive.

How long have you worked at the hospital?Since I was 17 years old. I started as junior secretary and within 18 months was a consultant’s secretary. I had a short break of five years, when my children were born, then returned to work and have been here ever since. I must be clocking up 35 years by now!

Why did you join the NHS?I was always fascinated by

medicine and, as a little girl, would drive with my family past the Atkinson Morley Hospital.

They would tell me sto-ries of the soldiers treated there during the war. That was how my fascination with the hospital began.

My grandmother was friends with a lady who

lived near the Atkinson Morley Hospital and I would go and visit her sometimes. Next door to this lady lived the senior neurosurgeon of AMH, Sir Wylie McKissock.

Sir Wylie asked who I was and when he dis-covered I was interested in working as a medical secretary he went inside and wrote a letter to the hospital secretary that simply said “Employ this girl in my department”. Two weeks later I found myself working for Sir Wylie McKissock. It is fun-ny how a chance meeting can shape the whole of your life.

Name one thing you cannot live without? My husband, Michael.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?

Smile on the phone. People can always hear you smile. n

“It is funny how a chance meeting can shape the whole of your life” - Gail Thompson

ARRESTING: The BBC

choir serenade patients

STAFF IN THE

SPOTLIGHT GAIL THOMPSON MEDICAL SECRETARY

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IMAGINE you’re a patient and one day you receive

a letter, asking you to come in to hospital for an appoint-ment. The letter which lands on your doorstep is in English. Only you don’t speak or read English. Fortunately, the letter is translated for you by a local community group.

It’s now the day of your ap-pointment. You walk into the hospital, not knowing where to go and who can help you. The signs, you see, are all in English. By showing the letter to various people, you eventually find your way to the clinic. But still, you wonder if there will be someone there who understands what you say.

There isn’t. You do not fully appreciate what is being said to

you, you are not clear what could be wrong with you – plus, you have no idea what to do next.

Someone then hands you a prescription which you take to pharmacy. No one explains to you how many pills you should take a day or whether there are any side effects to the medica-tion.

So you leave the hospital, wondering if you should make a complaint. But then, you don’t have the confidence to complain and fear you might be victimized or ignored if you do.

This story is extreme but it’s an

Race equalityIN the second of our BIG ISSUE columns, Margaret Adjaye, the hospital’s race and equal-ity adviser, explains why we should strive for greater cultural sensitivity in our services:

experience which some peo-ple do have of the NHS.

Was the hospital in the sto-ry racist? No, of course not. The doors of that hospital like every hospital are open to anyone with a medical problem, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexu-ality and so on.

But did the hospital dis-criminate? Well, you could ar-gue that it did. What it shows is that we must think very carefully about the services we offer our local communi-ty and how they are offered to make sure they meet eve-ryone’s needs.

You can have policies, procedures and schemes to guard against discrimination. But race equality is more than well-intentioned words on a page. Race equality is about actively recognising and being considerate to the needs of diverse groups, providing equal treatment, equal access to services and to opportunities, and treat-ing people irrespective of their background with dig-nity, value and respect.

Which is why we monitor the ethnicity of our patients. It tells us whether we are reaching all our communi-ties, in particular those who need our services most of all.

There is a word I hate to use, which begins with the letter ‘r’. Responsibility. There we go, I said it. Like me, you probably find that word hor-ribly boring. But in the con-text of this article, it is actu-ally quite important.

Why? Because we all have a responsibility (that’s the last time I use the word, I promise) to promote race equality and make it part of our lives and the way we work.

It requires imagination on our part and a willingness to be sensitive to other cul-tures; to really open our eyes to the way other people ex-perience and interact with this huge organisation.

We have to put ourselves in the shoes of our patients.

Only then will we fall into step with their needs.

And only then will we be fully accessible to everyone who walks through our doors .

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GREEN FACT #1FACT: St George’s produces 45 tonnes of waste every week - enough to fill two swimming pools. Fifty per cent of that waste is recyclable.

Think Green. Act GreenMake it second nature

LEFT: Margaret Adjaye

GOT KIDS? GET HELP WITH CHILDCARE COSTS STAFF can get help with child-care costs from next month with the launch of a Govern-ment voucher scheme at the hospital run in partnership with Busybees Childcare.

According to the scheme, which will be available from 1 July, staff can apply to receive part of their gross salary in vouchers which can then be used to pay for childcare.

Described as a ‘salary-slic-ing’ scheme, the vouchers are exempt from National Insur-ance contri-butions and Income Tax, and can be redeemed at regis-

tered nurseries, out-of-school and holiday clubs and even with nannies and childminders.

Staff can only receive vouch-ers worth a maximum of £55 a week or £243 a month to pay for the care of a child up to the age of 15.

For more information about childcare vouchers, please call Alicia Erauncetamurguil, the hospital’s childcare co-ordina-tor, on ext 1207.

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THEBIGISSUE!Diversity champion Margaret Adjaye

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SAY TO NEW HEALTH INFO SHOPhiA SHOP where patients can learn more about their health is to fling open its doors for the very first time in July.

The Health Information Centre - or - on the ground floor of Grosven-or Wing will be staffed by volunteers (see right) and stocks a wide range of free publications and other types of media about health, diseases and operations.

Patient and Public In-formation Manager Jean O’Shaugnessy says:

“The new centre is there to help patients with all their information needs.

“Information has be-come an important part

of healthcare and in re-sponse to the huge demand for leaflets and publica-tions, we de-cided it was time to cre-ate a central place where patients and members of the public could access the wealth of material we have to offer.

“If we don’t have something in stock, then our team of vol-unteers will ‘signpost’ the way to other quality sources of information

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such as the internet. “The centre is only open

on Tuesdays and Wednes-days between 10am and 4pm at present, although

its opening hours will be extended once addition-al volunteers are found to staff the shop.

Information is available

in a number of languages and in special formats for people with learning disabilities, hearing and sight difficulties. n

ADVERT

All paper and card! Empty plastic bottles!

Empty cans, tins and aerosols!

Empty glass bottles and jars!

Pounds for poundsIT WAS a case of losing the weight to pile up the pounds for the friends of a woman whose son suffers from leu-kaemia.

Mandy Caprino and Jacky Pratt raised £390 through a sponsored weight loss for Pinckney ward where the three-year-old son of their friend, Becky Kern, is receiving

treatment.Becky says: “All the nurses,

doctors, play specialists and everyone on Pinckney Ward have been fantastic in the way they’ve looked after Joseph.

“They adore him and he loves them all.”

The money has been spent on children’s toys and games.

LITTLE SHOP OF FLYERS: (Left to right) Shopgirls Nike Foster-Aileru, Monica Mangian and Ravinder Sidhu proudly show off the new centre.

Grosvenor Wing

St James’ Wing

Atkinson Morley Wing

Knightsbridge Wing

...and by the main public entrance on Coverton Road

Large recycling bins now outside:

Think Green. Act GreenMake it second nature

REMEMBER to wash out ALL bottles and containers before you place them in the bins

PLEASE don’t put broken glass in the bins

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For more information about recycling, visit www.recyclenow.com

Now you can r cycle so much more!

For more informationabout the new Health Information Centre, e-mail Jean O’Shaughnessy at jean.oshaughnessy@stgeorges.nhs.uk.

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Dear St George’s...Read what patients are saying about you

Dear St George’s,In July of this year, our youngest daughter, Amelia, was flown from Jersey to the UK for emergency treatment. She was only 10 months old at the time, and as parents of a young child who was suddenly taken ill, this was a very anxious and worrying time for us.

We felt helpless. Luckily, she was brought to St George’s and placed in the care of your wonderful paediatric unit, who took fantastic care of our baby daughter.

Your staff displayed absolute professionalism. The dedication of doctors and nursing staff was a real credit to the hospital and the NHS.

The nursing staff also displayed extreme generosity of spirit and were very caring towards my wife, who was quite naturally distraught by the whole situation.

It is now several months since Amelia was admitted to your hospital, but the memory of those few days is still very real to us, and we would once again like to express our thanks for all the care and professionalism displayed.Yours, Mr Frederick J DeaconJersey

Thank you for taking fantastic care of our baby daughter

Dear St George’s,I would like to express

my gratitude to the staff of Atkinson Morley Wing and my very high opinion of the work they do. My mother was transferred there from the East Surrey Hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage and spent nearly three weeks in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit where she undewent several operations. Unfor-tunately, she did not reco-ever and died.

This was a terrible ex-perience but my mother received the best possi-ble care. The doctors and nurses did everything they could to save her and treated her not only with respect and dignity but also with the utmost care and kindness. As a fam-ily, we were very grateful for the way we were kept informed at every stage about her progress and were treated with great

sensitivity when it became clear that nothing more could be done for my mum.

We were able to be with her throughout her illness and we were given time and privacy to be with her when she died.

It is clear to us that pro-fessionalism, a deep care for the individual and a strong sense of humanity run

through the whole team of doctors, nurses and all the other staff who enable this busy unit to function. Our heartfelt thanks once more to all the team, who work so hard and make St George’s such a wonderful hospital.Yours,Susan Trumble,Guildford, Surrey

Doctors and nurses did everything they could to save my mum

- Staff member

Pounds for poundsIT WAS a case of losing the weight to pile up the pounds for the friends of a woman whose son suffers from leu-kaemia.

Mandy Caprino and Jacky Pratt raised £390 through a sponsored weight loss for Pinckney ward where the three-year-old son of their friend, Becky Kern, is receiving

treatment.Becky says: “All the nurses,

doctors, play specialists and everyone on Pinckney Ward have been fantastic in the way they’ve looked after Joseph.

“They adore him and he loves them all.”

The money has been spent on children’s toys and games.

TOY STORY: (Left to right) Becky Kern with son Joseph and playroom specialist Claire Harrison.

“IAN has had an inspi-rational influence on many chaplains and ministers throughout his career as Chaplain here at St George’s Hos-pital,” writes Hilary John-son.

“He has taught many the skills of pastoral care and counselling, and was putting the patient first long before the politicians thought of doing so.

“It seems that all who have met him remember him with warmth and af-

fection. He has a breadth of general knowledge, especially history, reads widely and expects his colleagues to share his enthusiasms. We do, he is irresistibly infectious!

“I have been busy ex-plaining that we cannot replace Ian, they seem to have broken the mould, but we can rejoice that we have had the benefit of Ian’s talent, generos-ity and thoughtfulness, and wish him well as he retires from St George’s.”

A personal tribute by Chaplain Hilary Johnson

WHY IAN IS SUCH AN INSPIRATION

‘FORTH IN THY NAME, O LORD, I GO’: Ian Ainsworth-Smith will be remem-bered with ‘warmth and affec-tion’

Q. What is happening with the Bolingbroke Hospital?

A. Marie Grant, Director of Operations, writes:

“THE FIRST thing to say is that we are fully com-mitted to providing out-patient and ambulatory services for the people who live in the vicinity of the Bolingbroke Hospital in Wandsworth.

This may mean that we close the old Bolingbroke and transfer services into a new, state-of-the-art facility nearby which has enough capacity to cater for the thousands of pa-

tients we will treat there in the future; somewhere which, importantly, has enough car parking spac-es for all those people and the staff who work there; and somewhere that has good, convenient access to public transport.

However, what we are currently exploring are options to use the space within the existing Bol-ingbroke Hospital without having to invest addition-al money. We will know by the Autumn whether this

is a viable option.Capacity however is a

very important issue and any decision that we and our partners make will need to bear this in mind.

About a month ago, we took a paper to the Bol-ingbroke Steering Group - a committee made up of representatives from the hospital, the local primary care trust, GPs, the patient forum and the council - which looked at the way we could provide services based on different activity

levels: for example 50,000 outpatient attendances a year, 70,000 and finally, 100,000.

The group agreed that we should explore a mod-el of 60,000 attendances and this is the option we are exploring at the mo-ment.

So, the message from all this is that we have not forgotten about the Bol-ingbroke - and that we are actually thinking very care-fully about its future.“ n

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Do you recycle rubbish and waste at home?

(a) Yes(b) NoIf the answer is ‘no’, please say why:

How ‘green’ would you rate your beliefs and

behaviour?(a) Very green(b) Moderately green(c) Not green at all

Do you think the hospital should have

green policies, promote green initiatives, and encourage its employees to behave responsibly towards the environment?(a) Yes(b) No(c) Don’t care

How ‘green’ would you rate the hospital - in

terms of its attitude, policies, and behaviour?(a) Very green(b) Moderately green(c) Not green at all(d) Don’t know

Do you recycle rubbish - such as paper - at

work?(a) Yes(b) NoIf the answer is ‘no’, please say why:

The hospital wants to expand its recycling

scheme by setting up special recycling points in public areas. These would allow staff, patients and the public to recycle paper, cans, plastic and newspapers. Would you

use these recycling points if they were available?(a) Yes(b) No

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money is by reducing the amount of energy that we use.

Part A: Do you switch off lights when you leave the room?(a) Yes(b) No

Part B: If you have a personal computer, do you switch off the monitor when you leave

the office? Even if it’s only for a few minutes?a) Yes(b) No

Part C: If you have a personal computer, do you switch off your computer and the moni-tor when you leave work at the end of the day?(a) Yes (b) No

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StAFF opEN FoRUm, 1pm in Lecture Theatre F.

All staff welcome.

GRAND RoUND: Medical law and ethics, 12:45-

1:45pm in the Monck-ton Theatre.

NAtIoNAL tRANS-pLANt WEEk begins (Transplants

in Mind)

StAFF opEN FoRUm, 10am in the Philip Consta-

ble Boardroom. All staff welcome.

GRAND RoUND: Diabetes and Endocrinology,

12:45-1:45pm in the Monckton Theatre.

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ROOM TO RENTWe are two girls and have a spare double room available from the 18 July. The flat is a lovely ground/basement floor flat, 5 mins from Tooting Broadway tube. The flat is newly refurbished and we have two bathrooms, kitchen/living room with washer, dishwasher and a small garden. Rent is £433 a month not including bills. Sorry no cou-ples and no smokers. Call Vicky on 020 7561 7583.

FRIDGE/WASHING MACHINE FOR SALEAnyone wanting to buy used fridge or washing machine pls contact Patrick on 07946676521 for more info. Both are in good condition.

WELCOME to this special ‘think green’ survey. Going green could be as good for our finances as it is for the environment - which is why we want to know how green you are and how green you think the hospital is.

If you’re passionate about all things green, e-mail your name and number to thinkgreen@stgeorges.nhs.uk

GREEN CHAMPIONS

WANTED!

CoNGRAtULAtIoNS to Margaret Austen, a paediatric medical secretary, who won last issue’s soduku puzzle prize. Please call ext 5151 to claim your coffee and muffin!

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