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• Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing key to pandemic preparedness

  Testing for NHS staff, provided by the Francis Crick Institute and UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, detected COVID-19 infections that would have otherwise been missed.

• Dr Javier Alegre Abarrategui

  Dr Alegre Abarrategui is a consultant in diagnostic neuropathology offering diagnostic services across neuropathology subspecialties, especially surgical neuropathology, neuromuscular neuropathology, and neurodegeneration.

• IR Non-Tunnelled CVC Line Insertion (Vascath)

  This page tells you about having a Non-Tunnelled CVC Line Insertion (Vascath). This page is for those patients who have been referred to Interventional Radiology.

• IR PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) Insertion

  This page tells you about having a PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line insertion with the Interventional Radiology team.

• High blood pressure and its drug treatment unlikely to increase entry of COVID-19 virus into cells

  Fears that people with high blood pressure are more at risk from severe Covid-19 because it is easier for the virus to enter their cells and tissues have been laid to rest, thanks to research involving UCLH.

• National roll-out of Child Houses to support victims of sexual abuse announced at UCLH’s Lighthouse

  Wes Streeting, health and social care secretary, and Jess Phillips, minister for safeguarding, joined Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, and Kaya Comer-Schwartz, deputy mayor for policing and crime, at UCLH’s Lighthouse to announce a national roll-out of Child Houses to all NHS regions.

• IR Vortex® Port-a-cath Insertion

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

• VA PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) Insertion

  This page tells you about having a PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line insertion with the Vascular Access team.

• UCLH doses first patient in the world in Covid-19 antibody trial

  UCLH has opened a new vaccine research centre with two clinical trials testing a long-acting antibody combination treatment to protect against Covid-19.

• Using data in research

  How UCLH uses clinical data in research.