After a long shift, how would you expect a nurse at Lewisham Hospital relax? Shennoy Edge, from Plumstead, dons a pair of boxing gloves to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Joshua. The Greenwich Wire‘s special correspondent, MERCURY MAN, returns to tell us more. What I’ve always liked to do – I suppose it must […]
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Only use A&E for real emergencies, SE London NHS pleads as doctors’ strike bites
NHS officials in southeast London have appealed to people to only use A&E for real emergencies with the junior doctors’ strike putting hospitals under serious strain. Hospitals in the region have been “severely impacted” by the six-day strike, according to the South East London Integrated Care Service (ICS), which coordinates NHS services in Greenwich, Lewisham, […]
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Lewisham links remembered as anti-apartheid hero mourned
Leaders in Lewisham have been paying tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, after his death at the age of 90. A contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Tutu played a key role in overthrowing the racist policies that governed the country until 1991. He trained as […]
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Stop charging migrants for care, schoolchildren ask Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust for Christmas
School children sent 60 hand-drawn Christmas cards to the chief executive of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust calling for an end to migrant charges. More than sixty pupils from years five and six at St Mary’s CE Primary School in Lewisham decided to campaign on the issue after seeing the effects of the charging policy […]
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Covid-19 vaccine could come to Queen Elizabeth and Lewisham hospitals by Christmas
Stocks of coronavirus vaccine should reach Queen Elizabeth and Lewisham hospitals by Christmas, south-east London’s health service said earlier this week. The first people in the world were given the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine on Tuesday morning when the UK became the first country to start issuing the jab; the first patient to receive the treatment in […]
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It’s safe to go into hospital – my stay in Lewisham proves it, says Greenwich Council leader
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has urged south-east Londoners to start using their local hospitals again after a three-day stay in Lewisham Hospital. Thorpe took time off last week for an operation after an accident earlier in the year. Chairing a meeting of local healthcare leaders to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, he […]
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Singing together, but apart: Lewisham and Greenwich’s NHS choir stay positive
With a stethoscope around his neck and a mask dangling from his ear, nurse Graeme Tyler is singing in a room full of rainbows. He had just finished his shift at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, and against the backdrop of colourful drawings in children’s A&E, Graeme recorded this scene for Lewisham & Greenwich NHS […]
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My bus driver father would still be alive if he had PPE, says Lewisham nurse
The family of a London bus driver who died with Covid-19 said today a lack of protective equipment for public transport workers and delays to improving safety had “cost lives”. Mervyn Mally Kennedy is one of 29 transport staff — including 23 bus drivers and workers — to have died with the virus amid claims […]
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