Health

The Maternity Service annual Service of Remembrance for the families and friends of babies and young children who have died during pregnancy, soon after birth, or when very young, will take place at 3.00pm on Sunday, 9th October 2011.

The staff of the Maternity Service at West Middlesex extend a welcome to all those who are mourning the loss of a baby or young child.

Hospital patients can now use machines to self check-in in a bid to increase efficiency and cut costs.

The kiosks at West Middlesex Hospital in Twickenham Road, Isleworth, are touch screen and can be used much like those in supermarkets.

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Essential heart monitoring equipment worth £745 was donated to a hospital by a patient support group.

Upbeat Heart Awareness Group fundraise throughout the year, using initiatives such as collecting gold foreign coins, and then ask the hospital what equipment is most needed.

Local groups pulled together to leave a shared building spick and span as part of an annual clean up.

Nearly thirty members of the various groups that use St John's and Spring Grove Community Association Hall in St John's Road, Isleworth, were rewarded with tea and biscuits as they dusted, polished and tidied.

A PATIENT has hit out at a hospital for a series of misdemeanours.

Helen Ollason, 25, of Thackery Close, Isleworth claims that a doctor at West Middlesex Hospital on Twickenham Road, Isleworth failed to diagnose a common infection, treated her incorrectly and hid her medical results.

City workers swapped their smart suits for Lycra suits as they tackled a gruelling bike ride for charity.

19 bankers, doctors and volunteer lifeboat crew battled through a 380km ride from London to Paris to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), including the Chiswick branch.

SHOCK figures show a hospital to have the second worst midwife to birth ratio in the whole of the UK.

The data come from a BBC Panorama report which show that West Middlesex Hospital on Twickenham Road, Isleworth, has, on average, one midwife for every 43.88 births.

RESIDENTS are being invited to have their say about how their local hospital is run.

West Middlesex University Hospital's Annual Public Meeting will take place on Tuesday July 19 and attendees will be able to put questions to the Trust Board and hear about the hospital's progress over the last year, as well as its future plans.

BOSSES at West Middlesex Hospital have asked patients to leave extra time to make appointments while major road works are being carried out in the area.

Thames Water began repair work in Twickenham Road, Isleworth, earlier this month in a bid to prevent a repeat of the flooding which affected hundreds of residents during the summer.

Gym bunnies are now free to enjoy the second phase of Isleworth Leisure Centre and Library's new developments.

The new state-of-the-art gym is now open at the centre previously known as Isleworth Recreation Centre, on Twickenham Road.