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• Their Royal Highnesses Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Sarah, Duchess of York open blood cancer ward

  Sarah, Duchess of York, and Their Royal Highnesses Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie met with staff and young people in a video call to formally open the specialist haematology ward for young adults in the University College Hospital Grafton Way Building last week (Monday 11 July).

• 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.

• Bidborough House mass vaccination centre closes

  Our mass vaccination centre at Bidborough House, which we have operated in partnership with UCL, closes on Friday 22 July.

• Contrast Extravasation (contrast leakage)

  Contrast Extravasation (contrast leakage) patient information leaflet

• 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.

• Training programmes perform well in this year’s GMC National Training Survey

  We are pleased to have performed very well again in this year's General Medical Council National Training Survey.

• Low-phosphate diet for adults on futibatinib

  This page explains what a low-phosphate diet is. It also provides information about foods you can eat and foods to avoid when taking a medicine called futibatinib.

• Evening dosing of blood pressure medication not better than morning dosing

  Taking blood pressure medication in the evening is no better than taking it in the morning, according to new research.

• Good luck in the TCS London Marathon, UCLH Charity runners!

  The iconic run has returned to its regular time of the year, following two years’ disruption following the pandemic and will take place on Sunday 2 October 2022. We are lucky enough to have five people running for UCLH Charity. The money they raise will help us support patients, staff and research at UCLH.

• Loss of smell a ‘highly specific’ indicator of Covid-19, finds UCLH and UCL research

  Acute loss of sense of smell should be considered globally as a criterion for self-isolation, testing, and contact tracing for Covid-19 infection according to researchers at UCLH and UCL.