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• Moving to adult diabetes services

  On Tuesday 22nd February 2022, the UCLH children and young people's diabetes team are holding a workshop, between 5-7pm on Zoom, for young people who are moving to adult services in 2022/2023, to share information about adult clinics. 

• UCLH trial of world-first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease progresses into larger trial

  UCLH’s trial of the world’s first ‘gene silencing’ drug for Alzheimer’s disease has progressed into a larger and later stage trial, after promising early results.

• Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain

  Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a study at UCLH and UCL.

• National roll-out of Child Houses to support victims of sexual abuse announced at UCLH’s Lighthouse

  Wes Streeting, health and social care secretary, and Jess Phillips, minister for safeguarding, joined Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, and Kaya Comer-Schwartz, deputy mayor for policing and crime, at UCLH’s Lighthouse to announce a national roll-out of Child Houses to all NHS regions.

• First patient treated on new advanced radiotherapy machine to improve cancer treatment

  Read more about the Halcyon linear accelerator, aimed at making cancer treatment faster, more comfortable, and more precise for patients.

• World Hepatitis Day marks arrival of a new van to find & treat homeless patients

  Tens of thousands of people in England who have hepatitis C could now get tested and treated thanks to a new mobile health unit arriving to coincide with World Hepatitis Day on 28 July.

• Spectra Optia Funding to Deliver More Apheresis Capacity for Patients

  Learn more about the Spectra Optia Funding to Deliver More Apheresis Capacity for Patients

• ‘Virtual wards’ help patients to recover at home

  The UCLH@Home service is helping patients like 80-year-old Margaret Stone to continue their recovery in their own home under the care of their hospital team.

• Last week to share your views on the future of maternity, neonatal and children’s surgical services in North Central London

  There are just a few days left to share your views as part of a public consultation on proposed changes to how and where maternity, neonatal, and children’s surgical services could be provided in North Central London. The consultation closes on Sunday, 17 March 2024.

• New guidelines for endometriosis set to help millions of women with the chronic condition

  Scientists and academics from UCL and UCLH have informed a new set of clinical guidelines to aid better diagnosis and management of endometriosis.