News from Whipps Cross Hospital

The winner of the Whipps Cross Hospital Star of the Month award for January 2021 is Matteo Marino.

On Thursday 11 February 2021, there will be a memorial service broadcast live from the Whipps Cross Hospital chapel – an opportunity for people of all faiths and beliefs to remember together those we have loved and lost over the past year and to give thanks for their lives.

The winner of the Whipps Cross Hospital Star of the Month award for December 2020 is Anna Bray, who was nominated by Zebina Ratansi for her role in leading the fit testing program at Whipps Cross.

Covid-19 has highlighted a number of health inequalities in ethnic minority populations. Also, ethnic minority populations are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 as they are more likely to have front line jobs, more likely to live in multigenerational households with older relatives and themselves more likely to have health comorbidities.

We caught up with Natalie, who balances her time as a wellbeing prescriber at Whipps Cross Hospital alongside her existing responsibilities as Organisational Development Practitioner for the Trust's Organisational Development Team.

Khaledun Kader and Nikki Howes from Whipps Cross discuss their redeployment experience and encourage others to participate.

The Whipps Cross Hospital Neonatal unit has moved into a new refurbished maternity ward.

Jeff Edwards, who worked as a Whipps Cross Hospital porter for over 40 years, passed away last week.

Whipps Cross chief executive Alan Gurney shares his Christmas message for 2020.

On 7 December 2020, we opened a new Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) just 100 meters away from our general emergency department. The PAU will provide same-day emergency care for paediatric patients via bookable appointments made by the patient’s GP.