Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kingston Hospital is an acute hospital in Kingston upon Thames, England. It is managed by the Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust . It has an Accident & Emergency Unit , a popular midwife-led Maternity unit, and an STD clinic known as the Wolverton Centre.
Kingston Hospital – Kingston upon Thames; Lister Hospital – Chelsea (independent) The London Clinic – Westminster (independent) Portland Hospital – Marylebone/Fitzrovia (independent) The Princess Grace Hospital – Marylebone (independent) Priory Hospital, Roehampton – Roehampton (independent) Queen Mary's Hospital – Roehampton
The Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site is an acute-care teaching hospital affiliated with Queen's University located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Along with the Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) site, these hospitals form Kingston Health Sciences Centre which delivers health care services to more than 500,000 residents throughout southeastern Ontario; conducts health care research and trains future ...
The Department of Health claims stated that by concentrating on a set type of procedures they are able to streamline the patient care pathway, [5] resulting in an improved patient experience [6] and help the NHS to quickly meet waiting time targets; [7] however, the majority of independent research conducted to date has contradicted these claims.
Octreotide is used for the treatment of growth hormone producing tumors (acromegaly and gigantism), when surgery is contraindicated, pituitary tumors that secrete thyroid-stimulating hormone (thyrotropinoma), [citation needed] diarrhea and flushing episodes associated with carcinoid syndrome, and diarrhea in people with vasoactive intestinal peptide-secreting tumors ().
The hospital's Day Surgery building King's College Hospital, entrance to the Guthrie Clinic. Following the creation of the National Health Service in 1948, the hospital was granted Teaching Hospital status. In 1974 the NHS re-organisation saw King's become the centre for all health services management in its catchment area.
Acromegaly is usually caused by the pituitary gland producing excess growth hormone. In more than 95% of cases, the excess production is due to a benign tumor, known as a pituitary adenoma. The condition is not inherited. Acromegaly is rarely due to a tumor in another part of the body.
It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 868 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.38%. 72% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 61% recommended it as a place to work.