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.
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3:52 PM May 11, 2021
BHRUT chief executive Tony Chambers (l), an ambulance crew member, Mike Exford from the Red2Green team, deputy chief operating Officer Aleks Hammerton and chief nurse Kathryn Halford (r).
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A hospital charity has decided to buy three new ambulances for elderly patients using money raised by a national hero.
The King George and Queen’s Hospitals Charity will fund the ambulances with £390,000 it received from NHS Charities Together, the organisation for which Captain Sir Tom Moore raised over £33 million by walking laps of his garden.
It will spend a further £110,000 from general funds on the HomeFirst Scheme, where assessments for a patient’s rehabilitation, equipment and care takes place in their own home to give a “more accurate picture” of the level of support they require.