A surgical team has gone back to basics to better communicate with patients the complex surgical procedures they undergo during reconstructive surgery for head and neck cancer.
Dr Mayram Bennani has been putting her love of drawing to good use by producing illustrations that give patients a better understanding of what will happen prior to surgery.
Doctor practices the art of surgery
The pandemic saw many elderly people stay away from hospital, despite living with conditions that required regular treatment, such as heart disease.
Unit offers ‘one-stop’ service for frail elderly at Ealing Hospital
Christiana Dinah was given the green light to pursue her ambition of turning Central Middlesex Hospital into a research hub for eye disease with one proviso: don’t ask for any money.
Hospital keeps its eye on the ball
‘Women don’t stop giving birth because of a pandemic’ says maternity Divisional Head of Midwifery Danny O’Leary amid the department’s biggest refurbishment in the past 16 years.
Maternity delivers £500,000 refurbishment
Pop star Tunde Baiyewu has made a personal appeal for people to have their covid vaccination.
‘We’re all in this together,’ says pop singer
Patient care pack founder Katherine Mills delivered her 5,000th pack at Northwick Park Hospital this week.
Care pack champions
Upkar Drubra’s parents initially discouraged nursing as a career but the plucky teenager decided to apply anyway.
NHS was my second family, says retiring nurse
Sonal Popat was shown the basics of how to prone a patient in the morning and found herself working in intensive care later the same day.
Dentist who helped fill covid gap
May Hamilton enjoys a bracing seaside walk which is just as well as the plucky pensioner plans to complete 40 lengths of the world’s longest pier in aid of charity.
May steps out for charity
They call themselves the prone rangers and have been helping those less fortunate than themselves during the pandemic.
Prone rangers ride to rescue