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Doctors 'concerned' patients' health will suffer due to non-Covid backlog

The backlog could take five years to clear

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Adriana Elgueta

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Doctors in east London are "not confident" they will be able to manage patient demand with a whole "thread" of issues contributing to a consultation explosion that could allegedly take five years to clear.
A Covid-19 vaccine bus has launched outside the Balfour Road mosque to encourage more people to get jabbed. 

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Next stop: Covid jab! Vaccination bus rolls into Redbridge

Roy Chacko

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The proning team working together to ‘prone’ a patient

Coronavirus

Doctor documents 'terrifying' reality of second wave in ITU

Adriana Elgueta

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gv BHRUT coronavirus pod

Coronavirus

Covid hospital admissions and deaths in stark decline, NHS trust data shows

Adriana Elgueta

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Students get a Covid-19 test at a mass testing centre set up at the sports centre at St Andrews Univ

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Physical and mental health long-Covid rehab programme launches in Ilford

Roy Chacko

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Barking GP Dr Jagan John

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GPs available over Easter in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge

Andrew Brookes

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BHRUT is the first trust in north east London to roll out an innovative, early cancer diagnosis test called Cytosponge. 

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'Game changer' early cancer diagnosis test launches at BHRUT

Roy Chacko

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women walking along a path

Social enterprise urges older people to keep exercising

Sally Patterson

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London Fields Lido. Picture: Richard Dawson/ Hackney Council

Coronavirus

Covid-19: What can you now do with lockdown eased from March 29?

Holly Chant

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Louise Head is associate director of research and chief medical officer’s services at King George and Queen's hospitals.

Covid - A Year On

Coping with grief amid Covid: 'Only wrong thing to say is saying nothing' 

Adriana Elgueta

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King George Hospital in Goodmayes. Picture: Ken Mears

Queen's Hospital

A&E waiting times getting worse at Queen's and King George hospitals

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Shelagh Smith, BHRUT chief operating officer

King George Hospital

Hospital trust director retires after 42 years working in NHS

Michael Cox

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Covid - A Year On

How are you feeling about life after a year of Covid? Fill in our survey

Lindsay Jones, Editor

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GPs in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge are urging practising Muslims to not delay having their Covid-19...

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GPs urge Muslims to get Covid-19 vaccine during Ramadan

Roy Chacko

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King George Hospital in Goodmayes.

King George Hospital

Trust extends overnight closure of children's emergency department

Roy Chacko

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Ella Vanderhook

Volunteering at hospice has made me enjoy the little things in life

Ella Vanderhook, Saint Francis Hospice volunteer

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Rajesh Jain, critical care lead at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT).

Queen's Hospital | Special Report

One year of Covid: Hospital staff relive working through pandemic

Michael Cox

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Woman doctor wear protection face mask talking with patient in clinic office

Coronavirus

'Long Covid' clinic set up by BHRUT for those still suffering

Rachael Burford, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Calls for investigation into insurance giant's takeover of GP surgeries

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Cllr Joyce Ryan

Redbridge Council

'Disturbing' rise in under-fives needing mental health treatment in...

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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A frontline receptionist receives a Covid-19 vaccination.

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How many Covid vaccinations have been given where you live?

Jon King

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City Gates churchgoer Noel Robinson was one of the people to get the Covid jab at the vaccine pop-up clinic. 

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Ilford church turns into vaccine pop-up clinic

Roy Chacko

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Queen's Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford

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Only eight Covid patients 'critical' at Queen's and King George hospitals

Tom Ambrose

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Staff in east London care homes monitoring residents' health

Care home patients being linked to GPs directly to monitor their health

Mike Brooke

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving his speech to Parliament, in in the House of Commons, London, ab

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What are the 4 stages of easing coronavirus restrictions?

Emma Bowden, Press Association

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A photograph of a woman relaxing in bed with headphones in

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Coronavirus: How to look after your mental wellbeing

Rebecca MacNaughton

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Queen's and King George Hospital are both run by the trust. Picture credit: Archant.

Coronavirus

Covid deaths continue to fall at Queen's and King George hospitals

Tom Ambrose

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Marion Zargel has her Covid vaccination at Vi and John Rubens House

Coronavirus

More Redbridge and Havering people vaccinated than anywhere else in east...

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Macmillan Cancer Support bus and team. Picture: Glyn Collins

Health

East London cancer patients urged not to suffer in silence

Roy Chacko

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Reshmee Mayekar

Queen's Hospital | Exclusive

Hospital investigating claim nurses 'ignored' fainting and vomiting woman

Tom Ambrose

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