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This page has been created to provide information on coronavirus cases at Barts Health hospitals and will be updated daily except for Saturday and Sunday. 

The endocrinology department at St Bartholomew’s Hospital has become the first service of its kind in the world to be awarded the full five stars in an independent review by the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours.

A sharp rise in the number of GPs using Barts Health’s advice and guidance (A&G) service is helping to ensure patients are seen and treated in the right place, at the right time and as quickly as possible.

Photographs captured by two talented members of Barts Health will feature in Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’ online exhibition this Thursday (1 April).

As of today, April 1, the seven CCGs in north east London have formally come together as one new clinical commissioning group for NEL - the NHS North East London Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS NEL CCG). 

East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is to be the lead employer to advertise, recruit, carry out checks, train and place people to work on the Covid-19 vaccination programme in North East London. 

In 2021, Ramadan will take place between the evening of Monday 12 April and end on the evening of Tuesday 11 May, followed by the celebration of Eid Al-Fitr.

The 50,000th vaccine has been delivered at the NHS Covid-19 vaccination centre.

Work starts shortly to remove the derelict buildings on the site where the new Whipps Cross Hospital will be built. You will start to see activity from the demolition contractor as they prepare to remove the old nurses’ accommodation.

Our chair Ian Peters is today announced as the first chair of the new UK Health Security Agency, set up to protect the country against infectious diseases and other threats to the nation’s health.