How did we do?Delivering thebest care possibleFrom funding staff development to the purchase of new technology and theimplementation of improved systems, every project we fund aims to deliver thebest possible care for patients.Helping hospital staff seizeopportunities for developmentLast year, we invested over £124,000 in stafftraining and development to build vital skillsand improve learning. As well as supportingattendance at key medical conferences, wealso funded specialist courses in ophthalmicpractice, neonatal care and trauma therapy.Our wide-ranging support included a grant toenable adult and paediatric liver transplantsurgeon Miriam Cortes Cerisuelo not only toattend a major international conference inChennai, India, but to complete a two-weekobservership at Chennai’s Hospital Rela to learnhow to use surgical robots to undertake theliving donor transplants that King’sworld-leading liver team has pioneered.Transforming Liver Care: supporting youngpeople with liver diseaseOver the last 30 years, significant progress has beenmade in liver disease and transplantation, especially inchildren. Long-term survival is now commonplace butthis success has brought new challenges as patientstransition to adulthood. Struggling with being youngand having a complex lifelong condition, some skiptheir medication, appointments and follow up care,putting their safety and survival at risk.24S U P P O R T K I N G S .O R G .U KTo support young people aged 12-25 with serious liverproblems, we are proud to have secured £75,000 fromdonors, including The James Tudor Foundation andthe Bellasis Trust, to fund a Youth Transition Workerfor two years. As well as peer mentoring, the youthworker will provide intensive one-to-one supportfor young people who are at risk of disengaging withtreatment.Individual support plans will also help address worriessuch as education and employment, mental health,stress management, sexual health, body imageconcerns and learning difficulties.Improving outcomes for neurologicalpatientsWe were delighted to award grants totalling £77,000to enable King’s to secure two advanced clinicaltraining fellowships in behavioural neurology andneuropsychiatry, working together with both Guy’s& St Thomas’ and South London and Maudsley NHSFoundation Trusts. These fellowships address unmetneeds in two areas of clinical interest there is no centralNHS funding available to explore: the interplay betweenepilepsy and adult-inherited metabolic disease, andfunctional neurological disorder.While these fellowships will increase capacity anddirectly improve care and treatment for patientsat King’s and across our partner Trusts, they willalso improve awareness and understanding amongneurologists, stimulating further developments atKing’s and further afield as clinical understandingimproves.
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