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Press Releases 2010 Press Releases 2010 Supplies got through despite the snow!
| Supplies got through despite the snow! |
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| Written by Communications Team |
| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:06 |
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Five night’s a week 60 cages of medical and surgical supplies are delivered to the stores at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust and everyday they reach their destination on the wards and in the operating theatres – despite the snow! The supplies – syringes, bandages, suture kits and other surgical and medical items - come from the NHS Logistics HQ at Maidstone. Once delivered St. Peter’s Hospital Stores Supervisor Dave Gleghorn of Ottershaw, together with receipt and dispatch assistants Ian Black of Yatley and Reg Britt of Shepperton, loaded up the Trust’s 7.5 tonne truck to get the goods out, despite the bad weather. Said Dave: “I’d like to give full credit to them for getting all the deliveries out on schedule. It was not ideal weather for pushing cages around, or maneuvering a 7.5 tonne truck or our transit van for the smaller deliveries. It all got out, including the packets, tins and other items for the dining room and the League of Friends Café.” At Ashford Hospital it was business as usual, too, with receipt and dispatch assistant Keith Keegan receiving goods in the same way, twice weekly, and distributing them round the hospital. The Trust used as much grit and sand in the first 18 days of January as in the whole of last winter, and purchased 200% more grit and sand than would normally be ordered for the winter period. |
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Ashford Hospital, London Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3AA
Switchboard: 01784 884488
St. Peter’s Hospital, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 0PZ
Switchboard: 01932 872000
Switchboard: 01932 872000
