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Ealing surgeon Sala Abdalla brought the season of goodwill to Africa by organising more than 100 free surgical procedures with the charity Operation International UK.

They shocked people into donating more than £400 to Meadow House Hospice at Halloween and promise further good tidings with a Christmas fundraiser.

“I think they were slightly anxious I wasn’t going to show up,” laughed David Wootton, who became the first patient to be treated at the newly opened North West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) at Central Middlesex Hospital.

Some of the brightest young brains in the country have put their heads together with the NHS to work on projects as diverse as AI, hybrid working and integrated care models for community and mental health.

Hospital focuses on the needs of its patients but what about the carers who look after them? 

Doctors working in Occupational Health (OH) are helping the long-term sick back into work.

Jacqui Martin put herself back on the market after giving up her job as an estate agent and retraining as a midwife.

Rejosh George has won the regional Radiographer of the Year award.

“I guess you could call it a walk of faith,” laughs John Cunningham, a Christian and cancer survivor who is walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for the hospital that saved his life.

Best-selling author and comedian, Adam Kay, presented a special award to the year’s most outstanding midwife via video link at Northwick Park Hospital.