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E L FR E H THE ROYAL FREE A O Y S O P R I T E A L H T • • ASSOCIATION L ONDON (Incorporating the Royal Free Old Students’ Association and Members of the School) Sophia Jex-Blake Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake Lady Barrett Elizabeth Bolton Katharine Lloyd-Williams NEWsletter 2019 2 RFA 2019 In This Year’s Issue 4. RFA Reports 8. Programme 10. Minutes Of The Annual General Meeting 13. Apologies For Absence 14. News 18. Members 26. RUMS 30. Reunions 36. Students 46. Obituaries 50. GDPR 51. Extra Thanks EXTRA FORMS AttatcheD - Registration Form - Menu - Donation Form - Subscription Form 2 The Royal Free Association Newsletter 2019 RFA 2019 Please keep in touch, and let us know of any changes to your Keep in Contact! contact details! To receive contact details for reunions, or to provide content for next year’s newsletter, [email protected] please contact Tanya Shennan by emailing: www.royalfree.nhs.uk/rfa [email protected] Peter Howden on: 01406 540647 Or The Royal Free Association Peter Howden UCL Medical School Ivy Cottage Royal Free Campus Jekils Bank Rowland Hill Street Holbeach St Johns Hampstead Spalding London, NW3 2PF PE12 8RG. The Royal Free Association Newsletter 2019 3 RFA 2019 Report from the President Dear Friends and Colleagues, In these challenging times, relationship with the Royal Free, On a more generic note, increasing demands on the health having started here as a Finance the Royal Free Group is a large service and uncertainties linked to Trainee in 1991. Again she has a organisation having around 10,000 the Brexit situation fill the news and strong commitment to the Trust with staff, over 600 doctors in training cause concern. However, I think that tremendous energy and a strong and in the order of 800 volunteers for the RFA membership it is more interest in all the staff working at the (one of the largest volunteer important in this President’s report Free and her team. programmes). The Liver Transplant to draw together the many positive The Royal Free has a string of Centre has achieved over 2000 aspects of the Royal Free Trust and achievements and innovations which liver transplants since its inception the UCL Medical School, to show need to be celebrated. In May 2019 in 1988. The Royal Free is in its 5th the ongoing achievements of both the new Chase Farm Hospital was year of robotic surgery as a specialist despite such a challenging world. officially opened by the Duke of York. interest, and it has recruited well for Last year I wrote about the This project in development has the national genome project and for 70th anniversary of the NHS, and the been on the news agenda for several inclusion of patients in clinical trials. promotion of our Medical Director, years, but Chase Farm is now fully Royal Free cancer services are at Professor Stephen Powis to Medical operative, serving several important the forefront of focus, and there are Director of NHS England. This year services including new outpatient initiatives to reorganise and improve I relate another loss from the Royal facilities, an urgent treatment centre, these with the help of patient Free at high level, but which should an older people’s services unit and feedback – and quality improvement be seen as a mark of recognition of a dedicated day surgery unit. There based on these. The Royal Free has the calibre of those who lead us. Thus is also a state of the art endoscopy a neuroendocrine tumour centre, in December 2018 Sir David Sloman, unit. Amongst its accolades is that it recognised as a European Centre, a formerly the Group Chief Executive, has been digitally transformed. Thus, specialist centre for kidney cancer, resigned having been appointed as although a bit of a mouthful, it has and a breast cancer screening facility NHS Regional Director for London. achieved level 6 (out of 7) HIMISS at Finchley General Hospital, opened He came to the Royal Free in 2009 EMRAM rating (HIMSS Analytics earlier this year, with a state of the and has overseen many fundamental Electronic Medical Record Adoption art 3D scanner. changes at the Royal Free and in its Model) (an international benchmark Another initiative is the sister Hospitals (Barnet and Chase for the use of advanced IT to improve formation of Clinical Practice Farm) over these recent years. patient care and achieve a paperless Groups which involve partnerships The Trust was delighted to patient record environment). The with patients to change the way appoint Caroline Clarke as the new Royal Free was only one of three in which care is given and develop Group Chief Executive in February NHS organisations to achieve this standards across hospitals in the 2019. She had been deputy Chief level of digital maturity – no one has group. Areas of such development Executive for 7 years – and has a long yet achieved the top level of seven. include inflammatory bowel disease, 4 The Royal Free Association Newsletter 2019 RFA 2019 hip surgery, the prostate cancer expertise is remarkable and Professor Deborah Gill’s contribution diagnostic pathway and asthma care extensive so that an all-embracing later in this newsletter describes for children in A&E. summary is impractical. However, the ongoing initiatives and progress As for awards, a clinical lead the UCL Institute of Immunity and relating to medical student nurse for infection prevention and Transplantation directed by Professor education at UCLMS this year, and control at the Royal Free, Vicky Pang, Hans Stauss started operating also the many voluntary activities has been awarded the 2019 ‘Infection around 6 years ago and is involved that students have participated in. Prevention Nurse of the Year’ by the in research into a wide range of Meanwhile, thanks to your British Journal of Nursing. This was medical conditions. It is one of only a support, the Royal Free Association the result of her work which reduced few centres in the world dedicated to still provides Bursaries and Elective the number of cases of E. coli at the collaborative research in immunity Grants for medical students. On Royal Free Hospital by over 30% and will be moving into the new your behalf Peter Howden and the between 2016 and 2018. The Royal Pears Building, currently under Committee have agreed changes Free has also been recognised for construction adjacent to Rowland in the use of these by UCL Medical one of the National Health Services Hill Street and due to open in the Students and the amount available Journal Patient Safety Awards, autumn of 2020. Other highlights for each. In addition we are delighted winning the category relating to in UCL/RFH research include major to welcome Elizabeth Bradshaw the Deteriorating Patient and Rapid developments in lysosomal storage to the Executive Committee of the Response Systems. diseases (Gaucher’s and Fabry’s Association. So there are many achievements disease) and haemophilia (gene On Thursday 21st November, and initiatives. However, although therapy). Other notable advances 2019 the RFA will be holding its the CQC report earlier this year and trials led by Units on this campus Annual Meeting and I look forward did note areas of outstanding and focus on Parkinson’s disease and to welcoming you there. good practice, importantly it did amyloidosis - as you may have heard identify several other areas requiring on the BBC News. In addition UCL improvement. and the Royal Free team have led an For many years now UCL important international study on HIV has ranked among the top 10 transmission published this year in universities in the world (along in the Lancet. the UK with Oxford, Cambridge So, despite all the challenges to and Imperial). UCL leads in medical the NHS, to Medical Education and research, with the UCL Royal Free Research, Royal Free Hospital and campus recognised as prestigious UCL Medical School departments for joint academic/NHS research and institutes remain leaders programmes. The range of research nationally and internationally. Photo courtesy of Ivan Berg James Dooley RFA President The Royal Free Association Newsletter 2019 5 RFA 2019 TREASURER’S REPORT As you can see from the audited accounts, the Association has made a loss for this financial year. This is a result of a combination of factors. This year we have awarded £6,075 to the Medical School in bursaries compared to £2,075 in 2017-18. This is due to raised awareness of the funds available by inclusion of the details on the student learning platform, Moodle, and closer liaison with Medical School Administration. As usual, the Triennial Dinner made a considerable loss, as did the informal dinner. I would like to add that both these events were a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by the alumni who chose to attend. The Committee has agreed to increase the cost of tickets for the 2021 Triennial Dinner to £95.00 and the informal dinner to £40.00 from this year. However, subscriptions remain stable, as have donations. The sale of memorabilia remains healthy (other income). Most of our subscription income occurs in the autumn and so I would expect the bank balances to be around £18,000 by the time of our AGM in November. I have registered both our accounts with Lloyds International Banking and so I am now able to pay overseas cheques directly into these accounts. Thank you to everyone who continues to financially support the Association through subscriptions and donations, and to Karen Hamilton, our auditor. Dr Peter Howden Treasurer/Secretary 6 The Royal Free Association Newsletter 2019 RFA 2019 SECRETARY’S REPORT Just a note of thanks to all those Tanya Shennan deserves a huge which clinical update you would Alumni and Members who keep our thank you.