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From May 2021 north central London (NCL) has implemented a new model for elective orthopaedic care. This follows a review of adult elective orthopaedic services and is the culmination of three years collaboration with NHS providers to improve services for patients.

UCLH’s children and young people’s emergency department and acute inpatient paediatric beds have reopened.

UCLH has for some time had an acute medicine ambulatory pathway co-located with an emergency assessment area. Activity in this area has tripled in the last three years and continues to be busy in providing care during COVID-19. We want to build on this work and have been collaborating with other specialty teams to develop similar services for non-acute medical emergency patients.

The Government has now set out further action aimed at tackling rising cases of the COVID-19 B1.617.2 variant of COVID-19 (also known as the Indian variant). 

Mild Covid-19 infection is very unlikely to cause lasting damage to the structure or function of the heart, according to a study supported by the NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre and UCLH Charity.