Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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New research finds severe morning sickness increases the risk of depression both during and after pregnancy 14th Oct 2020

Researchers from the Trust found that nearly half of women with HG suffered antenatal depression and nearly 30 per cent had postnatal depression.
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Birthday honours for Trust's matron for quality and consultant neurosurgeon 14th Oct 2020

Winny Thomas, matron for quality and BAME nurses and midwives network chair, and Professor Mark Wilson, consultant neurosurgeon, have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday…
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Urgent response needed to tackle Covid-19 health disparities 14th Oct 2020

An Imperial expert has called for rapid action to tackle the causes of severe Covid-19 illness and death in ethnic minority groups.

Kate Sendall, frailty clinical programme manager at the Trust, and Dr Niki Lang, director of public health at Hammersmith and Fulham Council, explain how Covid-19 has accelerated closer partnership working between health and social care for older people.

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As a Trust we are monitored against national standards and targets known as performance indicators. They provide an overview of how successful we are as an organisation at delivering healthcare. They help us monitor waiting times, safety and patient experience.

Our hospitals are also regularly inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who award ratings against five quality domains: safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. On On 7 January 2015 the Trust was given the overall CQC rating:

Our most recent inspection report dated 23 July 2019 has seen improved quality of care across a range of services that were inspected back in February 2019, including London’s first outstanding rating for maternity care at both Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea And St Mary's hospitals.

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