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• 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.

• 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.

• Research at UCLH to tackle RSV infections in infants

  UCLH will play a vital role in a new respiratory virus study.

• 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.

• UCLH research shows monitoring for ovarian cancer in high-risk women is beneficial

  Research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Genetics concludes that regularly monitoring women who carry BRCA gene alterations does provide some benefits.

• 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.

• Simon Porter, non-executive director

  Simon Porter joined UCLH as a non-executive director on 1 April 2020. He is a chartered accountant whose executive career at the London office of Ernst & Young ranged across audit, corporate finance and risk management.

• Film aims to reassure relatives of critical care patients who cannot visit them in hospital

  A critical care nurse at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Helen Burgess, has produced a short film to provide reassurance to relatives unable to visit their loved ones because of visitor restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 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).

• Research to improve hospital treatment for people who use opioids

  UCLH is to trial a set of interventions to improve hospital care for people who use opioids such as heroin.