This month marks the 30th anniversary of St George’s moving to Tooting and an official opening by the Queen. Althoug h the history of St George’ s stretches back over 270 years; the last three decades have seen both the trust and university become very much part of the fabric of life in southwest London. The hospital site has developed significantly since 1980. The Jenner Wing was added in 1984, St James Wing in 1988 and in 2003 the Atkinson Morley Wing was opened. The trust’s specialist services have also expanded in that time to include neurosciences and trauma, stroke, cancer, renal, paediatri cs and cardiothoracic care. At the same time our community services, providing vital care to local patients, have continued to develop most recently through integration with Community Services Wandsworth. 1980 was also the year when the popular BBC sitcom Citizen Smith came to an end. The show was written by John Sullivan, who went on to write Only Fools and Horses. It starred a young Robert Lindsay as “Wo lfie” Smith, an urban revolutionary living in Too ting and self-proclaimed leader of the Tooting Popular Front, the goals of which were “Power to the People” and “Freedom for Tooti ng” . Revolutionising care Many colleagues will already know that at St George’s Healthcare we have our own goals which are designed to revolutionise the care that we deliver to our patients. Our stated mission is to improve the health of our patients and our local community by achieving excellence in clinical care, research, education and employment. Our values of excellent, kind, responsible and respectful have been designed to help staff work to achieve this mission. Eagle- eyed readers may have noticed that in this issue of One Message we have added special logos to help reinforce our values. These values logos first appeared in the October issue of the gazette and colleagues will be seeing more of them around the trust in the months to come. I know that many of you already live our values each and every day that you come in to work. This dedication was reflected at the annual Staff Achievement and Long Service Awards dinner which I attended recently; it is one event of the year that I always look forward to and provides a chance to celebrate the contribution of our staff. There are examples across the organisation of where we are delivering against our values so let me give you just a few: Excellent – a national audit has rated our stroke services the best in the country. Over 200 trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were assessed across eight categories and the stroke service at St George’ s achieved the highest overall score. Kind – we are very fortunate to have a team of dedicated volunteers who, under the leadership of Susan Taleghany, give of their own free time to help staff and patients across the trust. Responsible – the trust has signed up to the ’10:10 Climate Change Campaign’ and is committed to cutting its carbon emissions by at least 10% during 2010. This builds on work we have previously done under the Think Green banner and has reinvigora ted our environmental aims under the banner of Saving Carbon, Saving Lives. Respectful – The One Team, a joint The Tooting connection from the chief executive November 2010 Dear colleague, One Message Our values