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• King’s Coronation Medal awarded to our head of operations

  Alison Clements, head of operations, patient flow and EPRR, has received a medal in recognition of her work to support NHS preparations for the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla last May.

• Dangoor Family’s Exilarch’s Foundation gift to speed up pioneering cancer care at UCLH

  UCLH Charity is delighted to announce that the Dangoor Family’s Exilarch’s Foundation has pledged a £1.2m gift to support the next phase of the development of the CAR T programme at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The CAR T Speed Release Project aims to reduce the time between extracting patient’s stem cells and injecting re-engineered CAR T cells back into patients with cancer to fight cancer cells.

• CQC inspection again rates UCLH maternity as ‘Good’.

  The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson maternity service at UCLH has been rated ‘Good’ following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in June 2023.

• Red Cell Patient Information

  Patient information for Red Cell Network patients

• Patient educational materials

  Education and training videos for Red Cell Network patients

• Clinical and research informatics unit

  The Clinical and Research Informatics Unit at UCLH consists of a team of clinicians, researchers, software developers, business intelligence analysts and data scientists working together to develop a robust environment for the analysis of clinical data.

• 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. 

• 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.

• MRI scans improve prostate cancer diagnosis in screening trial

  Using MRI alongside PSA density allowed detection of cancers that would have been missed by the blood test alone, according to research from UCLH, UCL and King’s College London.

• 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).