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• Maternity services

  The maternity team at UCLH will listen to your hopes and concerns and can suggest helpful and practical ideas to help you.

• Chemotherapy

  At UCLH we use many different drugs to treat patients with cancer. Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs designed to control or destroy the growth of the tumour.

• Dr Roser Vega

  Dr Roser Vega is a consultant gastroenterologist and interventional colonoscopist. She leads the University College Hospital interventional colonoscopy service, providing advanced diagnosis and endoscopic treatment for colonic polyps and early colon cancers. She also delivers specialist care to patients with complex inflammatory bowel disease.

• Prescriptions and health costs

  All medications given to you while you are an inpatient are provided free of charge. At follow-up appointments, you may be given a prescription by your doctor or nurse. This must be collected from the hospital pharmacy; you cannot take it to your local chemist. There is a standard prescription charge per item which you can pay for by cash or card.

• Differences in Sex Development

  The clinic at UCH is the world’s first to provide a multi-disciplinary service for adolescents and adults born with diverse sex development.

• COVID-19 tests: possible scam

  We have been alerted to a possible doorstep scam where members of the public are being offered COVID-19 tests.

• Dr Maria Michelagnoli

  Dr Maria Michelagnoli is a paediatric oncologist with a special interest in bone tumours, rhabdomyosarcoma, fibromatosis and bone presentations of LCH

• Volunteering

  Volunteers are a highly valued part of the team at UCLH. Volunteering is a great way of giving back, doing something different and get some experience. Roles tend to be for a minimum of half a day a week for 6 months. For most of our roles you don’t necessarily need have to have prior experience as the key things we are looking for are great people skills and an ability to give us a regular commitment.

• Medical physics and biomedical engineering

  The department of medical physics and biomedical engineering provides expert physical science support to activities both within UCLH and to a wide range of external partners.

• SUMMIT Study catches up with pre-pandemic follow up appointments

  As World Lung Cancer Day approaches (1 August) the SUMMIT Study reports that it has made great strides in catching up with patients whose nodule follow ups were cancelled due to COVID-19.