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How did we do?
Delivering the
best care possible
From funding staff development to the purchase of new technology and the
implementation of improved systems, every project we fund aims to deliver the
best possible care for patients.
Helping hospital staff seize
opportunities for development
Last year, we invested over £124,000 in staff
training and development to build vital skills
and improve learning. As well as supporting
attendance at key medical conferences, we
also funded specialist courses in ophthalmic
practice, neonatal care and trauma therapy.
Our wide-ranging support included a grant to
enable adult and paediatric liver transplant
surgeon Miriam Cortes Cerisuelo not only to
attend a major international conference in
Chennai, India, but to complete a two-week
observership at Chennai’s Hospital Rela to learn
how to use surgical robots to undertake the
living donor transplants that King’s
world-leading liver team has pioneered.
Transforming Liver Care: supporting young
people with liver disease
Over the last 30 years, significant progress has been
made in liver disease and transplantation, especially in
children. Long-term survival is now commonplace but
this success has brought new challenges as patients
transition to adulthood. Struggling with being young
and having a complex lifelong condition, some skip
their medication, appointments and follow up care,
putting their safety and survival at risk.
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To support young people aged 12-25 with serious liver
problems, we are proud to have secured £75,000 from
donors, including The James Tudor Foundation and
the Bellasis Trust, to fund a Youth Transition Worker
for two years. As well as peer mentoring, the youth
worker will provide intensive one-to-one support
for young people who are at risk of disengaging with
treatment.
Individual support plans will also help address worries
such as education and employment, mental health,
stress management, sexual health, body image
concerns and learning difficulties.
Improving outcomes for neurological
patients
We were delighted to award grants totalling £77,000
to enable King’s to secure two advanced clinical
training fellowships in behavioural neurology and
neuropsychiatry, working together with both Guy’s
& St Thomas’ and South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trusts. These fellowships address unmet
needs in two areas of clinical interest there is no central
NHS funding available to explore: the interplay between
epilepsy and adult-inherited metabolic disease, and
functional neurological disorder.
While these fellowships will increase capacity and
directly improve care and treatment for patients
at King’s and across our partner Trusts, they will
also improve awareness and understanding among
neurologists, stimulating further developments at
King’s and further afield as clinical understanding
improves.
