University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has begun building a major new aseptic pharmacy facility to provide faster and more reliable cancer treatments for our patients. Located in the Osborne Building at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, the new facility will mean we can prepare more sterile medicines for cancer treatment and clinical research. These medicines must be prepared in highly controlled environments to ensure they meet the highest standards of safety, qualit

The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, visited the Leicester Royal Infirmary on Saturday 12 September as part of a pastoral visit ahead of a special service at Leicester Cathedral. During her visit, Archbishop Sarah met the Trust's Chaplaincy team and chaplaincy volunteers at the hospital's Spiritual Centre before visiting Ward 31, where she spoke with patients and frontline colleagues. Kartar Bring, Head of Chaplaincy at the University Hospitals

A team who play a critical role in caring for patients at Leicester’s biggest, busiest hospital have made an important move which bring closer the city’s planned new Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The pharmacy team’s office-based functions have temporarily relocated to Knighton Street, enabling the existing inpatient pharmacy to be refurbished into a fully clinical space. Pharmacy services will remain fully operational throughout the refurbishment, continuing to support the

A pioneering Leicester midwife whose own experience of stillbirth helped transform bereavement care for countless families has returned to Leicester Royal Infirmary to unveil a plaque honouring her remarkable legacy. Agnes Nisbett, accompanied by her grandson, visited the maternity unit, 22 years after retiring from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, to see the commemorative plaque installed on Level 4 of the Kensington Building. The plaque is next to the Bracken Su

For 20 years, the Hospital Hopper has been helping patients, visitors and colleagues hop between Leicester’s hospitals. Thousands of journeys later, the much-loved service is still going strong. To mark the anniversary of this important bus service, which provides a reliable link between all three hospital sites, UHL colleagues were joined by BBC Radio Leicester this week. Breakfast show host, Ady Dayman, who is the voice of the onboard announcements, chatted to commuters on

Congratulations to former UHL consultant embryologist, Jane Blower, who has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours List for her outstanding contribution to reproductive science. Jane worked in the NHS in Leicester for more than 40 years, and single-handedly established the city's first embryology laboratory, at what is now the Leicester Fertility Centre, based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. She was the first person to ear

Our future hospitals are quickly becoming a reality, with groundwork now officially underway on the new £12.8 million Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at Leicester Royal Infirmary. The site has been set up, hoardings are in place, and excavation has begun to prepare the foundation area for the new facility – a visible and exciting step forward for the project. This marks a significant milestone in improving urgent care services for patients across Leicester, Leicestershire, an