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• UCLH researchers find way to reduce side effects of treatment for adrenal disorder

  A research team involving UCLH clinicians has found a way to reduce the side effects of treatment for a disorder of the adrenal glands.

• Green energy & new tech to improve health for homeless patients

  This Mobile Health Clinic has been extensively refurbished and fitted with a new digital portable x-ray camera and modern technologies to speed patient diagnoses and treatment of infectious diseases that will be powered on green energy.

• Prime Minister visits UCLH to meet staff and patients

  Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was joined by Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting, for a tour of the University College Hospital Grafton Way Building where they met staff and patients.

• UCLH first in the NHS to use Nanoknife for prostate cancer

  A minimally invasive technique for treating prostate cancer has been used for the first time in the NHS at UCLH. It can be used with precision to treat the affected area, reducing side effects.

• Study highlights need to identify healthcare staff who lose sense of taste or smell

  Researchers from UCLH, UCL and the University of East Anglia have highlighted the need to identify, test and isolate healthcare workers who experience a new loss of taste or smell (anosmia).

• New contracts awarded to facilities management partners

  UCLH has retendered and awarded five-year contracts to two companies to provide estates and facilities services across UCLH.

• Alternating vaccines trial to include two additional vaccines

  The Com-Cov trial in which UCLH is a site looking at alternating vaccines has been expanded to include the Moderna and Novavax vaccines.

• 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.

• Marcel Levi to step down as chief executive

  UCLH chair Baroness Julia Neuberger has today announced that Professor Marcel Levi will be stepping down from his role as UCLH chief executive on 31 March 2021.

• Spread of COVID-19 mapped in hospitals to ‘break the chain’ of transmission

  UCLH will be part of a first-of-its kind clinical trial, led by scientists at UCL, that will evaluate the use of ‘real time’ viral genomic data to reduce the spread of COVID-19 within hospitals.