Latest news

Malini Patel says after a life time’s devotion to her family she can now find a few hours to give something back to the community as a car desk controller

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is one of six NHS trusts in north west London that have formed a new network to improve imaging services - including x-ray, MRI and CT scans - to enable better care for cancer, stroke and a wide range of other conditions.  

Vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists from the West London Vascular and Interventional Centre (WeLVIC) held a two day training course on complex lower limb arterial recanalization at Northwick Park Hospital.

Patients who risk losing their sight through age-related eye conditions are being given new hope as Central Middlesex Hospital offers clinical trials of the latest drugs and procedures.

Nedra Fonseka volunteers two hours a week as a patient companion.

Tanya Marshall, like many of our volunteers, was originally a hospital patient who wanted to give something back to the community.

It’s Volunteers’ Week and every day we will be tipping our hat to some of the people who keep our hospital sites running.

We start with Kanchan Shah who provides patients with some company.

I was a boy when I first came across dementia. My grandmother had been in hospital for some time and my father had chosen until then to visit her alone.

A woman who couldn’t eat solid food for two years has thanked surgeons at Northwick Park and St Mark’s hospitals for ‘giving me my life back.’

On 12 March 2019 my dad died following a series of mini strokes (transient ischemic attacks) that caused rapid onset vascular dementia.

In a short space of time he faded from the funny, book-reading, cake-loving, articulate man I had known all my life to someone incapable of looking after himself, unaware of his environment and unable to recognise the people around him.