Pictured top alongside one of the ambulances (l-r) are chief executive Tony Chambers, an ambulance crew member, Mike Exford, Red2Green team, Aleks Hammerton, deputy chief operating officer, and chief nurse Kathryn Halford.
More vulnerable elderly patients will be able to get home quicker after the King George and Queen’s Hospitals Charity secured funding from NHS Charities Together.
The money includes that raised by the late Sir Captain Tom Moore who raised more than £33m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden.
The hospital's slice of the funding -£390,000 - will be spent on three fully-equipped ambulances, including a driver and crew member to transport elderly patients home from hospital, under the Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Home First scheme.