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• 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.

• 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 study highlights need to increase support for stroke survivors

  Read about a new study which highlights the needs to increase support for stroke survivors

• Pathways to Equity Illustrations (2024)

  Using Art to Amplify Young People's Voices in Healthcare

• Cough medicine offers hope of new treatment to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease

  A large trial at UCLH and UCL will investigate whether a drug currently in use to treat respiratory conditions can slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

• Government programme to reduce theatre waste launched at UCLH

  Sustainability in healthcare was top of the agenda on Tuesday when the Department of Health and Social Care selected UCLH as the site to launch a new programme to reduce the reliance on single-use items in the UK health system.

• Researchers use AI to enhance and personalise brain tumour imaging

  UCL and UCLH researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool that can assess a patient’s brain tumour scan and provide greater patient-personalised detail to aid their treatment.

• Patients more likely to be admitted to critical care after surgery if a bed is available

  Bed availability is a “significant” factor in determining whether or not a patient is admitted to a critical care bed after surgery, questioning whether some are getting the care they need, a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH has found for the first time.

• 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 patient first in world to receive a new investigational drug in a phase 1 trial

  A UCLH patient with a rare hormonal condition is the first in the world to receive a new investigational drug in a first-in-human trial.