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"Our local communities are key to successful research”: Meet Maria Piggin
Maria Piggin is partnerships and training manager at the NIHR BRC Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre. In our latest blog, she discusses the importance of involving patients and members of…
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“Organ donation is one of the most beautiful things that people can do”: Meet Frank Dor
Frank Dor is a consultant transplant surgeon, clinical lead for transplantation and the chair of the Trust’s Clinical Ethics Committee. Here, Frank discusses organ donation more widely and…
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“Ovarian cancer – previously known as the silent killer – is not so silent anymore”: Meet Professor Christina Fotopoulou
Professor Christina Fotopoulou is a gynaecological oncology surgeon at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital and a leader in the field of ovarian cancer. Here, she discusses the diagnosis and…
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“Around 250 people under 30 in the UK get diagnosed with breast cancer each year”: Meet Alex Barnao
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK. Most women diagnosed with breast cancer are over the age of 50, but younger women can also get breast cancer. Alex Barnao, communications…
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Compassionate Communities funding to support patients who are waiting for treatment
The Trust and Imperial Health Charity are working to improve the experience of those waiting for treatment. Dr Liz Bennett explains the Compassionate Communities programme and how organisations can…
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"I knew the gut microbiome was important to our health and I wanted to focus my future career on understanding how": Meet James Kinross
An Imperial surgeon specialising in the gut microbiome has published a new book to explain why it is important for our health.
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What is Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome?
Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is a condition that affects one in 5,000 people. Because of a lack of awareness, those with MRKH often experience delayed diagnosis. To help change…
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“Heart failure is a big cause of hospital admissions and prolonged hospital stays”: Meet Clare Screeche-Powell
Clare Screeche-Powell, lead nurse for heart failure, discusses the main causes of heart failure and the importance of working collaboratively with colleagues, both inside and outside the Trust, to…
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“Clinical trials help improve medical practice and discover new treatments” – meet Idah Mojela
Idah Mojela is lead research nurse for HIV & Infectious Disease at Imperial College Healthcare. For International Clinical Trials Day, Saturday 20 May, she tells us what attracted her to a career in…
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Putting female scientists at the forefront of women’s health research
Dr Lynne Sykes is a specialist in pre-term birth who is seeking to understand what causes premature labour and how it can be prevented in the future. Her work, alongside a programme of research into…
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Changing the order of breast cancer treatments may lead to better care: Q&A with Mr Paul Thiruchelvam and Mr Daniel Leff
A new study by Imperial College Healthcare has suggested that changing the order in which treatments are given to breast cancer patients could reduce side effects and improve outcomes. Currently,…
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Improving health and equity – everybody’s business
For long-standing observers of healthcare policy, rising interest in population health and health inequalities may feel like Groundhog Day. But it has to be different this time, argue Dr Bob Klaber,…
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Obstetrician, Sabrina Das, reflects on providing maternity care in Yemen
Sabrina Das, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, reflections on working in a war zone, and the significance of what is possible when maternity staff…
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Discharge before noon takes persistence and planning
Each week, Lady Skinner ward at Charing Cross Hospital consistently manages to complete 80 per cent of their discharges before noon. This frees up space earlier in the day for new patients who need…
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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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Improving antenatal care with genetic testing
Dr Dagmar Tapon is a genetic counsellor at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital’s Centre for Fetal Care. As a successful scientist, Dr Tapon became interested in psychology and decided to combine…
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Empowering young people to become health conscious adults
Over the past two years, the Trust has been looking at how we can improve the service we provide for young people. A key part of this has been the weekly ‘Big Room’ meetings, which generate ideas…
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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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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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How whole genome sequencing can improve disease management
Living with the symptoms of an undiagnosed condition can lead to significant anxiety for patients and make it difficult to plan for what feels like an uncertain future. Neurogenetics clinics…
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Share facts, not flu: Q&A with Dr Anne Kinderlerer
Dr Anne Kinderlerer is a consultant acute physician and rheumatologist at St Mary’s Hospital. Here, she answers some common questions and shares facts about flu.
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Improving neonatal care in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lactation consultant Karen Platonos and clinical speech and language therapist Annie Aloysius of the neonatal service at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital on helping improve care for preterm…
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How you can help a loved one with dementia feel more at ease
Jo James, specialist dementia nurse at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, shares some practical tips to help people with dementia feel more at ease
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“Why I became a live kidney donor”
Although many living donors know their recipients, some people donate a kidney altruistically. Last year Eric McFarland, 41, became an altruistic donor and gave his left kidney away to a stranger.
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How we’re ensuring better care for older people with traumatic injuries
Consultant geriatrician Dr George Peck explains how we’re ensuring better care for elderly patients in our major trauma centre, and how trauma medicine is evolving to meet changing needs.
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“It’s so rewarding to support nurses to become more confident in what they do.”
Jenny Erisman is a clinical practice educator. She trains and assesses nurses on surgical wards, working with them on a one-to-one basis to help them provide the best care they can. She also plays a…
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The flu jab: protecting patients and busting myths
As the flu season gears up, we talk to Professor Peter Openshaw about the importance of the flu vaccine for NHS staff. It’s not just for the vulnerable few, but for all of us. Peter is professor of…
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“A stem cell transplant let me walk again”
Roy Palmer has multiple sclerosis. After a decade in a wheelchair a stem cell transplant at Hammersmith Hospital gave him the ability to walk again. Here Roy talks about his experience.
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Helping young people with sickle cell to have a sense of normality
Rachael Brown, clinical nurse specialist at St Mary’s Hospital, has set up support groups for adolescents and their parents living with sickle cell disease.
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How volunteers “Make a Difference” at our hospitals
Sam Morris is head of volunteering at Imperial Health Charity, which manages a growing community of dedicated volunteers across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. To celebrate Volunteers’ Week…
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Ensuring safety under pressure
Professor Tim Orchard, Trust medical director, reflects on the issues raised from the tragic death from sepsis of six-year old Jack Adcock at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011
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Hospital in focus: the role of private healthcare within Imperial College Healthcare
The role of private healthcare within the NHS has never been without controversy. And increasingly, as episode two of the latest series of BBC Two’s Hospital shows, the choice between NHS and…
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Empowering young people with severe allergies to share their stories
Paediatric allergy and immunology consultant Dr Claudia Gore worked with young patients and their families to create the video series "Terrific Teens," which stars young people with severe allergies.
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Our local children’s services offer real evidence that integrated care models can help solve NHS challenges
To provide high quality and safe care we must work closely with our patients, their families and our partners – primary, secondary and community healthcare providers – in order to navigate and…
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Keeping memory loss research in mind
Helen Rice, memory nurse specialist at Charing Cross Hospital, explains how research is vital to help us identify new treatments for dementia and how to get involved in research at the Trust.
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New breath test tackles growing rates of oesophageal cancer
Professor George Hanna and his team have devised a breath test which can diagnose oesophageal cancer quickly and effectively, without the need for an endoscopy.
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Living with diabetes at 15 – a patient’s perspective
A 15-year old Trust patient, Nadir El Tahir, explains how he copes with diabetes with the help of his clinical nurse specialist, Roshni Vadher.
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Charity begins at hospital
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, writes about why hospitals have charities supporting their work, what our charity does, and how you can get involved.
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Returning home: why some patients need help to adjust to life outside hospital
Anne Kamale is a British Red Cross service coordinator at the Trust. Anne works for the Trust, but is part of a service delivered by the British Red Cross which provides practical support to…
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Giving patients with dementia the NoSH they need
Plenty of fluids and a bit of what you fancy is commonly dispensed health advice to the sick – alongside a healthy dose of home-made chicken soup. But many patients with dementia who are in hospital…
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Pressure on emergency departments
Like many NHS Trusts, we have been struggling for some time to meet the national standard for 95 per cent of people attending emergency departments to be assessed, treated and admitted, or…
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A day in the life of … Scott O’Brien, modern matron for children’s intensive care
With a fundraising appeal underway to raise money for an extensive refurbishment of St Mary’s Children’s Intensive Care Unit, Scott O’Brien, modern matron, tells us about what it’s like to work there.
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Closing in on integrated care
For many years, integrated care has been seen as the NHS’s holy grail – providing high quality care, tailored to the individual, seamlessly and efficiently. It’s a key element of NHS England’s Five…
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Looking after the elderly at home this winter
As winter approaches, it is elderly people who are most at risk of ill health. The older we get, the less able our bodies are to fight the simple infections and minor illnesses we barely noticed in…