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• Supporting sportspeople – from Olympians to amateurs

  With all eyes on Paris for this summer’s Olympic Games, we look at how UCLH’s Institute of Sport, Health and Exercise (ISEH) has supported one of Britian’s Olympic hopefuls, and the care it provides for all kinds of sportspeople, from professionals to weekend warriors.

• IR Port-a-cath Insertion

  This page tells you about having a Port-a-cath Insertion (implantable port) with the Interventional Radiology team.

• Can music therapy help patients recover from brain injury?

  A new trial led by UCLH and UCL is looking at whether music therapy can help patients recover from severe brain injury.

• Transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation uterine fibroids (Sonata®)

  This provides information about a treatment for uterine fibroids known as ‘transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation’. You may also hear it called by the Manufacturer’s name ‘Sonata®’ for short.

• First UK patient receives innovative lung cancer vaccine

  A lung cancer patient at UCLH is the first to receive a novel cancer vaccine designed to prime the immune system to recognise and fight cancer cells.

• UCLH top in England in CQC inpatient survey for the second year running

  UCLH has received excellent results in the 2023 National Adult Inpatient Survey this year, with patients rating their overall care 8.8 out of 10. This is an improvement on last year's score of 8.7 and once again makes us the best performing acute/combined trust in England.

• Induction of labour when your baby is overdue or ‘post-dates’

  This page aims to help you decide if a post-dates induction of labour is the right decision for you and your baby.

• A guide to the most common benefits: information for people affected by cancer and blood conditions

  This information has been developed by the welfare and benefits team based in the Macmillan Support and Information Service. It outlines the most common benefits available.

• Doctors urged to treat patients with sudden hearing loss within seven days

  A team of clinician scientists at UCLH have identified the factors which predict full hearing recovery, with the strongest predictor being treatment with steroids within seven days of a sudden drop in hearing.

• The Female Genital Cutting / Mutilation (FGC/M) Children and Young People’s Clinic

  The UCLH children’s FGC/M clinic provides specialist care for children and adolescents who have undergone or are at risk of FGC/M.