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From Monday 16 May, if you’re 16 or over you will automatically be tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C when blood is taken at Ealing and Northwick Park hospitals A&E. You can opt-out if you prefer.

It was feted in its day as a striking example of modern architecture but Northwick Park Hospital was recently voted the ugliest building in Harrow in a London-wide poll of the capital’s least attractive buildings.

Former health minister Lord Ara Darzi has praised the pioneering work of a Northwick Park surgeon.

Local hospitals and emergency services found themselves involved in one of the worst civilian disasters in the UK when three trains ploughed into one another at  Harrow and Wealdstone Station in 1952.

Hospital departments from Northwick Park have banded together to provide much needed medical equipment for Ukraine.

Medical illustration was essential for hospital records and teaching before the widespread use of cameras.

Nurse Blanch Snelgrove offers a rare insight into the life of a nurse at the turn on the 20^th Century in Central Middlesex Hospital: the first sixty years.

Hospital security extends to the skies above Northwick Park in the shape of two birds of prey that help scare pigeons away.

The trust has treated several thousand people for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and one of the most dramatic stories was that of YouTube influencer Grace Victory who was put into an induced coma less than 48 hours after the birth of her son at Northwick Park Hospital.

“I am a dreamer and don’t believe in the impossible,” says Hani Abdul-Jabar explaining his extraordinary journey from teenage refugee to surgeon.