Dr Tracey Bowden completed a Barts Charity fellowship in 2023. During her fellowship, Tracey explored whether a brain training programme could improve people’s memory and learning after they have heart surgery – something that patients often struggle with.
Our Clinical Research Training Fellows for 2023/24 have now been appointed. Seven healthcare professionals from a range of different disciplines and backgrounds will be undertaking PhD training and delivering innovative research to help improve the health of people living in East London.
With our funding, researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that children living in areas with high levels of deprivation in North East London, are three times more likely to have severe tooth decay that requires dental extraction in hospital.
The MBE recognises Professor Chloe Orkin’s services to the NHS, including pioneering work to find new therapies for HIV for underrepresented groups, funded by Barts Charity.
With our funding, a team at Barts Health NHS Trust will digitise records for patients in intensive care and operating theatres. This data will provide information in almost real time that will alert teams to any life-changing deterioration in health, and free up nurses’ time to invest in critical patient care.
Research part-funded by Barts Charity shows that blocking certain enzymes could significantly halt acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a particularly aggressive type of blood cancer.
Our new investment will bring three new surgical robots to Barts Health hospitals and will increase access to less invasive procedures.
Our Everyday Impact funding scheme focuses on ideas where a simple change can make a big difference to the care, experience and wellbeing of patients in hospitals across. We have now supported 58 projects and invested an incredible £1.5m.
Barts Charity funded research from Queen Mary University of London, suggests that girls between the ages of four and 11 who are considered overweight or obese were 1.7 times more likely to visit GP with a musculoskeletal symptom or diagnosis.
We have funded a new board game, available in Barts Health hospitals, that aims to improve the experience of young people transitioning out of paediatric into adult care services.
