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• 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.

• New UCLH clinic opens to provide COVID-19 treatments for highest risk non-hospitalised patients

  University College London Hospitals (UCLH) is now administering new COVID-19 treatments for patients at highest risk in the community.

• 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.

• Red Cell Patient Information

  Patient information for Red Cell Network patients

• Patient education and training videos

  Education and training videos for Red Cell Network patients

• Publications and Reading Material

  The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) have worked in partnership with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme to engage with communities less likely to access health information through usual NHS channels. The societies provide feedback from people that share the same population background or have experience of the condition and to feed into the programme updates and improvements. 

• Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer

  An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that significantly more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

• COVID-19 NHS vaccination centre to reopen at Islington Business Design Centre

  UCLH NHS Foundation Trust has once again formed a partnership with the Business Design Centre in Islington to reopen a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination centre on site from Saturday 18 December.

• Women’s mental agility is better during menstruation

  Participants reacted quicker and made fewer errors during menstruation, despite believing their performance would be worse, according to new research from UCL and the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health (ISEH).

• Launch of new services to support patients with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, and other inherited red cell disorders

  The North Central London Integrated Care System (NCL ICS) has new services and staff training to support patients with inherited red cell disorders, including Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, living in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.