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• Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road - closure of site

  Update about our hospital on Gray's Inn Road

• Immunomodulatory drug for COVID-19 trialled at UCLH

  UCLH is contributing to a national priority trial of the drug ruxolitinib in patients with Covid-19 pneumonia (infection of the lungs).

• Congratulations to our three RCN Nursing Award winners

  It’s a clean sweep for our nominees at this year’s RCN Nursing Awards. Congratulations to winners Jo Hargroves, Robert Vicente and Susie Lagrata!

• One year at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

  The hospital marked the start of the year a visit by HM The Queen in February 2020. A few weeks after this celebration, the pandemic took hold and the hospital stepped up to help.

• Research into restoring loss of smell and taste in COVID patients

  Specialist teams at UCLH and UCL are at the forefront of research which could bring hope to people who have been robbed of their sense of smell and taste after suffering the long-term legacy of COVID-19.

• National play toolkit to reduce children’s medical trauma launched at UCLH

  A new toolkit to support babies, children and young people in healthcare access high quality health play services was launched at UCLH last week with UCLH chief nurse Vanessa Sweeney welcoming visitors from NHS England and the play charity Starlight.

• Cystic fibrosis drug tested to fight inflammation in COVID-19

  Patients with COVID-19 will be given the cystic fibrosis drug ‘Dornase alfa’ to determine if it can help improve survival by reducing excess inflammation in the lungs in a trial at UCLH.

• First patient treated on new advanced radiotherapy machine to improve cancer treatment

  Read more about the Halcyon linear accelerator, aimed at making cancer treatment faster, more comfortable, and more precise for patients.

• Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19

  Neurological complications of COVID-19 can include delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage, finds a new UCL and UCLH-led study.

• Best of luck to all our runners at the Royal Parks Half Marathon!

  The Royal Parks Half Marathon makes a spectacular return this weekend.