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• Red Cell Patient Information

  Patient information for Red Cell Network patients

• Feeling sick - what you can do (Easy read)

  This page offers advice to patients who are feeling sick.

• Patient educational materials

  Education and training videos for Red Cell Network patients

• Getting Ready for Transition (GReaT) to secondary school

  Our Getting Ready for Transition (GReaT) to secondary school parent information session will run on Wednesday 29 January 2025.

• Publications and Reading Material

  The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) have worked in partnership with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme to engage with communities less likely to access health information through usual NHS channels. The societies provide feedback from people that share the same population background or have experience of the condition and to feed into the programme updates and improvements. 

• NEW: Helpful videos about managing common cancer treatment side effects

  Short videos on managing cancer pain, cancer-related fatigue and improving sleep

• COVID-19 booster vaccination clinics

  At UCLH we run seasonal COVID-19 vaccination clinics from our Hospital Hub within UCH. Vaccinations are available to members of the eligible public as well as UCLH patients.

• Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer

  An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that significantly more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

• Women’s mental agility is better during menstruation

  Participants reacted quicker and made fewer errors during menstruation, despite believing their performance would be worse, according to new research from UCL and the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health (ISEH).

• Lower Gastrointestinal suspected cancer pathway

  This page is for patients who have been referred on a suspected cancer pathway.