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• Infection Prevention and Control at UCLH
• RNOH Health and Wellbeing Information and Support Sessions

  RNOH are pleased to launch a series of regular Health and Wellbeing Information and Support Sessions to support patients following a cancer diagnosis and also during/after treatment.  These…

• 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.

• Gloves off for better safety and a greener NHS

  UCLH is reminding staff that gloves are not always required, by reducing the instances where non-sterile plastic gloves are used when treating non-infectious patients. The focus is now on how clean hands are just as effective a barrier against infection.

• Field Safety Notice – CamAPS FX app version 1.4(172) and all previous versions

  Until this point, if a largely over estimated total daily dose was entered by the user incorrectly, there is a risk of over delivery of insulin during Auto mode. This risk is the highest on the first day and reduces gradually over subsequent days.

• UCLH consultants elected to Academy of Medical Sciences

  Five UCLH consultants have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of their exceptional contributions to biomedical and health science and their ability to generate new knowledge and improve the health of people everywhere.

• Field Safety Notice – Dana I pump (or Diabecare DANA-i) (Manufactured before October 2022)

  We have been informed that there has been an increasing number of fractures in the battery securing parts of this pump. During the insulin pump use, if the device is dropped or excessive force is applied, some of the device's battery securing parts may break.

• New ways to predict outcomes of pregnancies with fetal growth problems

  A team at UCLH and UCL have developed new methods to predict outcomes for pregnancies where there are issues with poor growth of the baby inside the womb.

• Understanding your child's behaviour

  This is an 8-week online parent group led by the Child Wellbeing Practitioners at UCLH.

• Martin Jacobs, non-executive director

  Martin Jacobs joined UCLH as a non-executive director on 1 January 2020. He spent 20 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he was a Partner within the Corporate Finance division.