Thursday 3 December 2009
3.30pm – 6.00pm

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ at one of London’s leading hospitals, here’s your chance to find out.

The UCLH annual open event sees the flagship University College Hospital showcasing its services to the general public. You can take a tour of departments including the high-tech radiotherapy unit and the Macmillan information centre, become a virtual doctor in our state-of-the-art education centre and browse over 40 interactive displays from different services and meet the frontline staff who provide them.

Displays this year include the planned new cancer centre (due to open 2012), an update on how we are reducing hospital acquired infections to some of the lowest levels in the country, new developments in surgery and for mums to be, what’s on offer from our neonatal and maternity service at London’s newest maternity unit, the University College Hospital Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing.

To add some festive cheer, there will be entertainment, carol singing, mince pies and the official switch on of our Christmas tree lights by globe trotting adventurer Ben Fogle.

There’s no need to book – just come along. Please re-visit this page for updates.

Please note:

• To minimise disruption to services, tours in some areas start later than 3.30pm
• Tours are bookable on the day only and numbers are limited. Spaces are allocated on a strictly first come, first served basis
• Some tours may last beyond the finish time of 6.00pm
  

A to Z of display stands

• Acute surgery unit

• Archives
• Bowel cancer screening & colorectal surgery
• Cancer centre
• Carbon reduction at UCLH
• Cardiac catheter lab at The Heart Hospital
• Children and young people’s care at UCLH
• City University
• Department of nutrition and dietetics
• Development of the hyperacute stroke service (HASU)
• Eastman Dental Hospital
• Emergency services
• Eye department
• Foundation trust governors and membership
• Friends of UCLH
• General medicine
• Groundbreaking research to improve patient care
• Head & neck
• Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• Infection control team
• Interserve Facilities Management Ltd
• Joint UCL/UCLH/Royal Free Biomedical Research Unit
• National Hospital Development Foundation
• NHNN
• Nurses League
• Obesity services
• Organ and tissue donation
• Pathology
• Radiotherapy
• Resuscitation services
• Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital (RLHH)
• South Bank University – nursing courses
• Sports orthopaedics & sports medicine UCLH
• Therapies and rehabilitation services UCH
• UCLH Arts
• UCLH charitable foundation
• UCLH charity
• Upper GI medicine (laser therapy, etc)
• Urology and orthopaedics
• Welcome to UCLH
• Women’s health – breast and gynae
• Women’s health – maternity and neonatal services

Tours

Click here for more information on the tours

• Critical care unit
• Day surgery
• Education centre
• Endoscopy
• Imaging
• Institute of nuclear medicine
• Macmillan cancer information centre
• Multidisciplinary endovascular team (Hybrid Theatre)
• Operations centre
• Outpatients
• Radiotherapy
• Sterile services