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Nurse, Can I See The Wine List?
King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes introduce Fine Wine List by Berry Bros. & Rudd
UK hospitals are used to being criticised for the food and drink they serve. However, now patients at the renowned King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes in London will benefit from the introduction of a fine wine list on a par with the finest restaurants
Berry Bros. & Rudd, the fine wine merchants in St. James’s Street, London has developed a list of fine wines and Champagnes to compliment the sophisticated menus on offer to patients at King Edward VII’s Hospital.
King Edward’s chief executive Clive Bath says:
“It made sense to us that the most exclusive private hospital in London should get together with London’s best wine merchant to provide our patients with a serious choice of wines. And of course good wine drunk in moderation has been shown to have health giving properties.”
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Simon Berry, chairman of Berry Bros. & Rudd says:
“For over 300 years, Berrys’ has supplied fine wine to wine lovers, royal families, actors, celebrities and politicians. It seems entirely appropriate that patients recovering from illness or an operation should be able to benefit from the pleasure of fine wine too.”
This isn’t the first time Berrys’ has supplied wine to the King Edward VII’s Hospital. The hospital’s operating theatre entry for 11 May 1917 recorded that surgeon Mr Clayton Green and his anaesthetist Dr Powell used Berrys’ Champagne as an anaesthetic during an operation. The procedure investigated a haemorrhage, following amputation of the right arm of a young Second Lieutenant of the Essex Regiment wounded in France.
Patient care has indeed come a long way since 1917!
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Press Release, Date: 18/08/2006
Press information please contact:
Katherine Acton at the King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes Press Office on: +44 (0) 207 993 3833
or Katherinea@oneismore.com
or Trudi Smith at Berry Brothers & Rudd press office on: +44 (0) 207 349 2491 or email: trudi@halpern.co.uk
Notes for editors:
King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes
King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes was established in 1899 by two sisters, Agnes and Fanny Keyser, who turned their home at 17 Grosvenor Crescent into a hospital for sick and wounded Officers returning from the Boer War. King Edward VII became the Hospital’s first patron.
The Hospital moved to its present site in Beaumont Street in 1948 when it was officially opened by HRH Queen Mary.
Today, King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes is an independent, acute Hospital, registered with the Healthcare Commission and recognised by Investors in People It offers the highest standards of nursing excellence, access to the country’s most renowned Surgeons and Physicians, the most modern equipment and facilities combined with impeccable standards of care from which so many patients and their families have benefited over the years.
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