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Why this year’s bivalent Covid-19 booster vaccines offer improved protection
Professor Robin Shattock, the head of mucosal infection and immunity within the department of medicine at Imperial College London and one of the first researchers to work on Covid-19 vaccines,…
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Meet our festive vaccinators!
Our Covid-19 vaccination clinics are offering walk-in slots for first, second and booster vaccines for adults (18+) until 30 December. Meet a few of our friendly (and festive!) vaccinators from…
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Working together to deliver Covid-19 tests at home
In 2020, we established an in-house Covid-19 testing programme so staff could get tested and back to work quickly. To help us reopen our elective services, we expanded the testing programme and it…
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Health providers play a key role in improving the experiences of the LGBT+ community
As part of LGBT+ History Month, NHS general management trainee Lewis Thomas reflects on the inequalities that persist for LGBT+ people, and on the important role healthcare providers have in…
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Understanding how Covid-19 spreads
Why does one virus become a pandemic while others don’t? How and where do we catch them? Following on from their presentation at a recent AHSC online seminar, Professor Wendy Barclay, action medical…
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Learning from our staff during Covid-19
Lara Ritchie, improvement programme manager, explains how we’ve approached learning from the experiences of staff during the first wave of Covid-19, so we can improve things now.
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Read my lips: the downside of PPE for people with hearing loss, and what we can all do to help
Having to wear a mask is a sometimes uncomfortable necessity during the pandemic. But, for the significant number of patients and staff with hearing loss, who often rely either partly or wholly on…
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Listening and learning from our patients and local communities during Covid-19
Hannah Fontana, strategy, research and innovation programme manager, explains how we’re approached learning from the experiences of our patients and communities during the first wave of Covid-19, so…
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How Covid-19 has accelerated closer partnership working between health and social care for older people
Kate Sendall, frailty clinical programme manager at the Trust, and Dr Niki Lang, director of public health at Hammersmith and Fulham Council, explain how Covid-19 has accelerated closer partnership…
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How is Covid-19 affecting BAME communities?
Covid-19 raises important questions on health inequalities and the disproportionate impact it may have had on Black Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people.
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Developing a Covid-19 testing strategy with local, national and global impact
Dr Bob Klaber is a consultant paediatrician and the Trust’s director of strategy, research and innovation. Alongside Dr Fran Cleugh, he has led the Trust’s efforts to develop a Covid-19 testing…