Health

YOUNG patients will no longer have to occupy the 'no man's land' between adult and children's wards, thanks to the generosity of Procter & Gamble.

A brand new Young People's Unit (YPU), opened at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey last Friday, is a dedicated inpatient area for teenagers.

VOLUNTEERS from Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals have been nominated for the prestigious Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.

The annual awards recognise and reward excellence in activities carried out by groups within the community and are referred to as the MBE for voluntary organisations.

PREMATURE twins Reo and Rocco have become the first to use a double cot at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, which was paid for by donations and fundraising.

Funds collected for the neo-natal intensive care unit were used to buy a Kanmed Twin Baby-warmer cot, which enables two infants to sleep side-by-side and keeps them warm using a special temperature-controlled water mattress.

Consultants, staff and patients raised their glasses on Thursday to celebrate 20 years since BMI The Runnymede Hospital in Chertsey first opened its doors.

The 52 bed private facility invited the Mayor of Runnymede councillor David Parr visited the hospital to join in the celebrations.

ST Peter's Hospital's Radio Wey has been shortlisted in five categories at the national Hospital Broadcasting Association's Radio Awards.

The station, which received the second highest number of nominations, hopes to build on its success in previous years.

DEDICATED staff from a Chertsey gym used pedal power to raise money for Sport Relief at a supermarket last Thursday and Friday (October 27 and 28).

Iain Hayes, 18, a trainer at the River Bourne Club, sacrificed a day off work to join colleague Sofia Hernandez, 19, to cycle on an exercise bike at the Tesco store in Addlestone.

CLINICALLY obese people will now be able to have a specialist gastric bypass operation to help them lose weight at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

As of Friday, September 9, the hospital will offer a new fat-combating surgical procedure to patients who need to lose weight in order to maintain a healthy life.

PLANS to make staff pay to park at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital has been criticised by a nursing union.

UNISON said it feared that patient care could be compromised by the move from the Ashford and St Peter's Hospital Trust.

The trust is consulting on the plans as part of a wider scheme to overhaul parking charges at the hospitals in Staines and Chertsey.

DOCTORS and nurses working at St Peter's Hospital, in Chertsey, could soon be joining patients on a park and ride bus into work.

A request for temporary planning permission has been put into Runnymede Borough Council by Ashford and St Peter's Hosptials Trust, which runs the hospital, to lease 100 car parking spaces at the Abbey Rangers Football Club car park, in Addlestonemoor.

Under the plans, a minibus will run from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, picking up hospital workers on its route taking patients picked up from elsewhere in the region to St Peter's.

FIRE crews had to cut a person out of his car this morning after a crash on Walton Bridge.

The person was freed after the smash involving three cars and a lorry.

Fire crews attended the scene from Chertsey and Sunbury.

More to follow.