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• The Patient Transport Service

  This service is provided for UCLH patients who are unable to attend hospital appointments by public transport or other means, due to their medical condition.

• Self-help resources for pain management

  As with any form of pain management, different resources or techniques will suit different people.  Please remember that you may need to try out more than one book, CD or website before you find…

• Patient story - Emily Pride

  Emily Pride’s world turned upside down when, at 14, she was diagnosed with a string of painful and life-changing conditions. She tells us how UCLH’s complex pain team gave back her life.

• Stereotactic radiosurgery services

  UCLH is the only Supra-Centre in England to deliver Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiotherapy Services (SRS/SRT) as part of an integrated neurosurgical and Neuro-oncology service to patients.

• What to Expect during Gamma Knife Surgery

  The treatment consists of five steps:

• Linear Accelerators (Photons)

  Radiotherapy delivered on a linear accelerator (sometimes termed linac) is a form of ‘external beam' radiotherapy delivered using high energy X-Rays (photons). The department is equipped…

• History of The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

  The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine was founded as the London Homoeopathic Hospital by Dr Frederick Foster Hervey Quin in 1849. He was among the first doctors to practice homeopathy…

• What types of clinical trial are there?

  For a treatment to enter everyday use – it must pass through different types of clinical trial.

• How are clinical trials designed?

  There are many ways of organising clinical trials. The most common terms are included below:

• The research team

  The research team includes a number of different people and you will probably meet the following: doctors - this could be the consultant clinician, specialist registrars and research fellows…