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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.

The pandemic saw many elderly people stay away from hospital, despite living with conditions that required regular treatment, such as heart disease.

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.

‘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.

Pop star Tunde Baiyewu has made a personal appeal for people to have their covid vaccination.

Patient care pack founder Katherine Mills delivered her 5,000^th pack at Northwick Park Hospital this week.

Upkar Drubra’s parents initially discouraged nursing as a career but the plucky teenager decided to apply anyway.

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.

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.

They call themselves the prone rangers and have been helping those less fortunate than themselves during the pandemic.