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- A beekeeper with a life-threatening bee allergy and the consultant who saved her
- A closer look at the NHS Genomic medicine service
- Scott O'Brien
- A practical approach to integrated care for chronic kidney disease
- A practical way to join up care and focus on health for all
- “A stem cell transplant let me walk again”
- Acknowledging how intense our work can be and how normal our reactions are
- After brain injury, patients and their families can feel confident to self-manage
- An ultra-sound career: my life as a senior radiographer
- Speed dating with a difference – how our apprenticeship programme creates the perfect match between candidate and manager
- “At the Trust we are putting our emphasis on achieving equity not just equality”: Meet Hannah Franklin
- Bariatric surgery – not just about losing weight
- Behind the headlines: NHS care and overseas patients
- Behind the headlines: Understanding the complex challenges facing the NHS
- Behind the scenes: Trust staff on responding to coronavirus
- Behind the statistics: why we need a cultural change in our approach to dementia care
- Black History Month 2023 'Saluting our sisters' by Joselyn King
- Black History Month 2023 - A blog from Chenika Goldson
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- Building better leaders with Horizons
- Caution is key when it comes to ‘vaginal seeding’
- Celebrating 200 years of Charing Cross Hospital
- Celebrating 51 years of friendship born from our Trust
- Changing the order of breast cancer treatments may lead to better care: Q&A with Mr Paul Thiruchelvam and Mr Daniel Leff
- Charity begins at hospital
- “It’s all about representation”: How I gained the courage to chart my path in research
- Closing in on integrated care
- How we implemented a command centre to tackle winter pressures
- Compassionate Communities funding to support patients who are waiting for treatment
- Creating moments and memories for people with dementia
- Working together to deliver Covid-19 tests at home
- For great hospital care, let’s focus on what patients with dementia can do, not what they can’t
- Developing a Covid-19 testing strategy with local, national and global impact
- Discharge before noon takes persistence and planning
- “You must run clinical trials to develop new drugs, which is why our work is so important” – Meet Dr Marian Donegan
- Easing delirium in intensive care
- Empowering young people with severe allergies to share their stories
- Empowering nurses to make improvements
- Empowering young people to become health conscious adults
- Enabling faster access to specialist care for patients with chest pain
- #LoveOurEUstaff — why Brexit means we need to make it clear
- How we’re ensuring better care for older people with traumatic injuries
- Ensuring better care and increased efficiency are two sides of the same coin
- Ensuring safety under pressure
- Brenda Deocampo, Lead Nurse/CXH-Acute & Specialist Medicine, shares her story for ESEA with a blog entry - Never a ‘first class citizen’.
- How we’re evolving our services to deliver better results for patients
- "Fifty years in the NHS doesn’t feel like very long…”
- “I always wanted to be a surgeon,” says first UK female professor of surgery Averil Mansfield
- Forty years and still going strong: the variety of a nursing life
- Frequent A&E visits: the personalised service for chronic conditions
- From sceptic to convert: why I always get my flu jab
- From the Philippines to Imperial: Building a life at Charing Cross Hospital
- From Windrush to the wards: Carol Cato-Duncan shares her family story
- Genomics is changing the way I treat my patients
- NoSH
- Grandfather of allergy, Dr William Frankland, aged 106, on popularising the pollen count, working with Alexander Fleming and spending 70 years in the NHS
- Harnessing the healing power of art and creativity to improve patient care
- “Heart failure is a big cause of hospital admissions and prolonged hospital stays”: Meet Clare Screeche-Powell
- Helping young people with sickle cell to have a sense of normality
- How a pioneering procedure can reach the brain without a single cut
- How acts of kindness can improve care and strengthen teams
- care homes
- How is Covid-19 affecting BAME communities?
- Health providers play a key role in improving the experiences of the LGBT+ community
- Regaining your independence: how occupational therapists help patients to return to their life outside hospital
- How our hospitals have prepared for winter
- How reasonable adjustments have helped me succeed in nursing
- How research is showing us the way out of the global pandemic
- How same day emergency care helps patients avoid hospital stays
- From overseas battlefields to terrorist incidents at home: how specialist major trauma teams are saving lives
- How specialist nurses with ‘extended’ roles are changing the way we provide care for good
- How the Care Information Exchange helped me manage my daughter’s care
- How volunteers “Make a Difference” at our hospitals
- How we reduced our sonographer vacancy rate from 53 to two per cent
- How whole genome sequencing can improve disease management
- How you can help a loved one with dementia feel more at ease
- “I am proud of my military service, and I am equally proud of the men and women that serve their country today” – Meet Tom Jacques
- "I feel privileged to be in the position to deliver care”: Meet Dr Brian Wang
- I feel privileged
- New book uses scientific evidence to help people lose weight
- Together, we can improve flow throughout our hospitals
- Why this year’s bivalent Covid-19 booster vaccines offer improved protection
- Improving antenatal care with genetic testing
- Improving health and equity – everybody’s business
- Improving neonatal care in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Improving safety through collaboration, connection and behaviour change
- “In the pharmacy department, the patient is at the centre of everything we do – and we do a lot”
- Patient involvement - necessity not 'nice to have'
- It’s time to celebrate the incredible resilience young people have shown in the pandemic
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities: How it feels to be a deaf person working at the Trust
- NHS75: Introducing Dr Alasdair Fraser, a medical student at the start of the NHS
- NHS75: Introducing Lord Moran, the man who won over early opposition to the NHS
- Investing in volunteers to build connections with our communities
- “It is a privilege to help people during their most difficult times”: Meet Gillian Chumbley
- “It is incredibly humbling and empowering to be the first doctor to win MasterChef” – Meet Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed
- "I knew the gut microbiome was important to our health and I wanted to focus my future career on understanding how": Meet James Kinross
- South Asian Heritage Month 2023: Jazz Thind, Chief Financial Officer
- Jinju James, shares her story for South Asian Heritage Month 2023.
- Job-sharing
- Keeping memory loss research in mind
- Learning from our staff during Covid-19
- Let us tackle race inequality together
- “Life sciences is key to the future of the NHS” - Professor Tim Orchard
- Living and working with sickle cell disease
- Living with cancer at Christmas: how to get the most from the festive period
- Diabetes at 15
- Looking after the elderly at home this winter
- Long Term Plan
- A job that never gets old: loving life as a ward manager at the Trust
- How Macmillan navigators ease the journey for patients with cancer
- Make kindness your New Year’s resolution
- Making a difference on Charles Pannett ward
- Managing clinical trials when every second counts
- “Around 250 people under 30 in the UK get diagnosed with breast cancer each year”: Meet Alex Barnao
- Meet Asmahan, a patient safety partner at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- “Nursing is a grand career”: A day in the life of Alice Markey, discharge nurse
- “Clinical trials help improve medical practice and discover new treatments” – meet Idah Mojela
- “My rotation with Paddington Life Sciences has provided incredible opportunities”: Meet James Harkness
- Meet Matthew Swindells, the first joint chair for all four acute trusts in north west London
- Medical director Mr Raymond Anakwe on what inspired him to join the NHS
- Meet our festive vaccinators!
- “Ovarian cancer – previously known as the silent killer – is not so silent anymore”: Meet Professor Christina Fotopoulou
- "Imperial College Healthcare is a great place to pursue clinical research": Meet Rowan Boyles
- The best thing about working in trauma is that no day or patient is the same”: Meet Sara Logan, major trauma ward matron
- “As a society, we need to appreciate women’s health as its own entity”: Meet Srdjan Saso
- “Midwives are advocates for women during their pregnancy and labour”
- “My breastfeeding advice for new mothers”
- My day in A&E
- Nadia’s Rest Nest: a staff room with a difference
- Breath test
- Saving precious time for stroke patients: our new thrombectomy service
- NHS 70: Lord Darzi on robotics, career development and how the NHS can respond to changing demands
- How UK Living Kidney Sharing Schemes mean more patients can receive life-changing transplants
- NHS charities are crucial to the nation’s health; we just need to show how
- Nursing and midwifery at Imperial’s journey on the Pathway to Excellence
- Obstetrician reflects on providing maternity care in Yemen
- Offering specialist child health expertise to local communities
- “Organ donation is one of the most beautiful things that people can do”: Meet Frank Dor
- Our local children’s services offer real evidence that integrated care models can help solve NHS challenges
- "Our local communities are key to successful research”: Meet Maria Piggin
- "As Black research scientists, these are our observations on the Covid-19 vaccination and ethnicity"
- How staff commitment led to an ‘outstanding’ CQC rating for maternity services
- Outstanding maternity care: Giving birth at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital
- Beyond NHS treatment: Why we support patients to access treatments not offered on the NHS
- Personal reflections on International Women’s Day
- How to PREPARE for surgery and speed your recovery
- Pressure on EDs
- “Working with HIV/AIDS patients was the highlight of my clinical career”
- Professor Mark Thursz on looking after your liver and more
- Professor Onn Min Kon, Head of the Tuberculosis (TB) service at the Trust and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, originates from Malaysia, and shares his story of how his 'roots' inspired a British education and career in medicine.
- "Promoting a research culture in emergency medicine is essential”: Meet Mary Dawood, consultant nurse emergency medicine
- Prostate cancer: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and beyond
- How I’m pursuing research as an allied health professional
- Putting female scientists at the forefront of women’s health research
- Quality improvement is everyone's job
- How our pathology service developed a rapid-result flu test service
- The rare disease mistaken for asthma
- “Rare diseases need to be focussed into specialist centres so that patient outcomes can improve”: Meet Professor Michael Seckl
- Ready for a major incident: how to ensure we’re prepared for the worst
- Reducing unnecessary cannulation at Charing Cross Hospital
- Reflections on the challenges staff have faced
- Relationships, resilience, and collaboration help deepen integration during Covid-19, and for the long-term
- Remembering Windrush: Honouring the Legacy and Advocating for Sickle Cell Disorder
- "How my research led to a change in practice and better nutritional care for patients"
- Returning home
- “We’re creating a Save Your Vein movement to improve care for dialysis patients nationwide”
- Share facts, not flu: Q&A with Dr Anne Kinderlerer
- Shirley Dowden for Black History Month: a 46-year career in nursing
- Supporting people with learning disabilities into work
- Swapping STIs for ICU – redeployment and cross-skilling in the era of COVID-19
- Tackling female genital mutilation through practical partnerships
- Tackling race inequality with progress but much more to do
- Taking part in clinical trials – A patient’s perspective
- “Teamwork is what carries us through when we treat patients with such horrific injuries”: Meet Kshem Yapa, consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon
- “The charity helped us stay with our son”
- Read my lips: the downside of PPE for people with hearing loss, and what we can all do to help
- “The eye can be used as a window into the brain to look at different diseases”: Meet Professor Francesca Cordeiro
- The Fleming Centre: Driving the fight against antimicrobial resistance
- The flu jab: protecting patients and busting myths
- The future is personalised medicine
- The NHS has a critical role to play in pioneering new treatments that draw on the best, new research
- "The photos on the wards were like therapy for me": Meet Hannah Grace Deller
- Hospital in focus: the role of private healthcare within Imperial College Healthcare
- “There aren’t many careers where you can save or change a person’s life for the better”: Meet Chris Jordan, consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
- We’re transforming our outpatient services – here’s why and how
- Under pressure – how we’re reducing pressure ulcers in our hospitals
- Understanding how Covid-19 spreads
- Using digital technology to improve sepsis care
- How I’ll use my research fellowship to improve patient care
- Using video consultations for children and young people
- Using volunteers to reduce Did Not Attend rate amongst the most deprived
- “Through volunteering, I’ve become more confident”
- We all have a role to play in fighting antimicrobial resistance
- We need support to bring More Smiles to children in London
- We need to be honest about our challenges this winter, plan ahead and work together
- We need to talk about post-mortem exams
- What is Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome?
- Why A&E is struggling to be a ‘place of safety’ for mental health patients in crisis
- Why digital communication means more – not less – contact with patients
- Why fewer, more specialist stroke units are saving lives
- “Why I became a live kidney donor”
- "After 28 years, I still love being a midwife"
- Why I wanted to bring baby boxes to the UK
- Why we opened our doors to TV cameras
- Why we still need Pride in 2019
- “Working as a nurse in the NHS is hard, but I think it is an honour to do this role”
- Working in the midst of a major incident: first-hand experience from A&E
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