News & Events 

  • The poet, the hospital and the heart

    14 Feb 2012

    It's Valentine's Day today, and for The Heart Hospital the festival of love is relevant for more reasons than may immediately be apparent.

  • Heather Leach Lust for Life

    30 Jan 2012

    Filmmaker and UCLH patient Heather Leach turned the camera on herself throughout her three-year battle with cancer to give an honest account of how she coped in the aftermath of her diagnosis and surgery.

  • See yourself in 3D at the Science Museum

    26 Jan 2012

    Craniofacial surgeons from University College Hospital, the Eastman Dental Hospital and Institute and Great Ormond Street Hospital are hoping to benefit from a Science Museum event aiming to build the largest database of 3D facial images in the world.

  • So you want to be a best-selling writer? Read on...

    24 Jan 2012

    Award winning teen author Sophie McKenzie kept young patients spellbound when she read extracts from one of her best-selling thrillers – transporting them to a world far away from the hospital ward.

  • Thanks – you saved my life says MP

    23 Jan 2012

    An MP who underwent life-saving surgery at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) to remove a brain tumour, returned to the hospital to pay tribute to staff.

  • Health Minister praises success of a new cord blood collection unit

    20 Jan 2012

    A new cord blood donation centre in the heart of London is off to a flying start with over 140 mothers giving potentially life-saving umbilical cord blood since the unit opened in November 2011.

  • Volunteers wanted for ground breaking cancer centre

    16 Jan 2012

    A major £100 million Cancer Centre due to open in Camden in the Spring is appealing for volunteers to provide a warm welcome and support to cancer patients, their families and carers.

  • Noro virus Norovirus: Information for patients and visitors

    11 Jan 2012

    Please be aware that diarrhoea and vomiting (Norovirus) is making a lot of people unwell in the community at the moment. Please do not visit the hospital if your are unwell with cold-like symptoms or diarrhoea and vomiting symptoms.

  • (from l to r) Dr Richard Budgett, Prof Fares Haddad and Dr Mike Loosemore Sport institute to provide lasting Olympic legacy

    9 Jan 2012

    Elite athletes, ‘weekend warriors’ and patients whose condition would benefit from an exercise regime will all be treated under the same roof at the new UCLH/UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health.

  • New Year honour for NHNN consultant

    4 Jan 2012

    The Queen’s New Year Honours List was a cause for celebration at UCLH this weekend as the roll call of names included a CBE for Professor Clare Fowler, MB BS MSc FRCP, a consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN).

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