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• Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA): Information for people affected by cancer and blood conditions

  Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA): Information for people affected by cancer and blood conditions patient information leaflet

• Trial of T-cell therapy for lung cancer begins at UCLH

  Trial of T-cell therapy for lung cancer begins at UCLH

• NHS Staff Survey 2024 – we’re the top acute trust to work at for third year running!

  Read more about the NHS Staff Survey 2024 - we’re the top acute trust to work at for third year running!

• People with aphasia make significant improvements thanks to intensive programme at UCLH

  People with the acquired communication disorder aphasia – which involves problems with the understanding or production of speech –have benefitted greatly from a two-year programme of therapy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at UCLH.

• Advice and guidance service at UCLH

  UCLH is continuing to scale up the number of services that offer Advice & Guidance, as well as identifying various improvements within the existing Advice & Guidance service. Over the last few months, UCLH has introduced 5 new specialties to the service, with additional specialties due to go live shortly.

• First participant joins new Parkinson’s Disease study at UCLH

  UCLH has recruited the first participant for a new UK based study for Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The ASPro-PD study is testing whether treatment with a drug called ambroxol is associated with an improvement in motor and non-motor function compared with placebo.

• Managing diabetes at Christmas time

  The diabetes team have revisited their tips for managing diabetes over the Christmas holidays and updated them for 2022.

• Managing High Glucose Levels and Ketones with insulin pumps (that are not Hybrid Closed Loop Systems)

  This information is for children and young people with Type 1 diabetes, and their families, on how to manage high glucose levels when using an insulin pump.

• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

  Urology services and thoracic surgery are now provided at University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street. Cardiac services have transferred from UCLH to the Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, new services have moved into the hospital. The following services are based at the University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street: Thoracic Surgery Inpatient Stone Team Services (patients being admitted for operations) Robotic Surgery inpatients Andrology inpatients Male reconstructive inpatient surgery Adolescent urology inpatients Urological Cancer patients Functional restorative and female urology inpatients All urology outpatients clinics

• Climate action and sustainability

  UCLH has declared a climate and health emergency and has published an action plan to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions.