UCLH RadPro Showcase.

A brand new hospital and Radiotherapy department located in the heart of London!

The Tower on the Euston road.

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Location.

The Hospital is located in the West End of London close to all main line railway stations such as St Pancras, the new terminal for fast Eurostar trains to Europe and also with easy access to London based airports all within 20 to 40 minutes by dedicated Express trains.

Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, two extremely interesting areas of London adjoin the new hospital site and provide a wealth of entertainment and interest with shopping, theatres, parks and squares, cinemas, restaurants, museums, galleries and pubs featuring in great numbers!

Bloomsbury is named after 'Blemondisberi' or the manor of William Blemond, who acquired the land in the early-13th century. The area remained rural until 1661, when the 4th Earl of Southampton built Southampton (now Bloomsbury) Square around his house. 

More grand squares followed including Bedford Square, laid out in 1775 - 80 and the vast Russell Square, added in 1800.  By the mid-19th century the district had become mostly residential.

Many of the Georgian buildings in Bloomsbury's splendid squares have been taken over by the University, including the 'Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology' and the 'Percival David Foundation for Chinese Art'.   The University of London's monolithic Senate House was added in the 1930s.   

In the early-20th century the area was best known for its association with the 'Bloomsbury Group' of writers and artists.  Active from the early-1900s until 1930s, many members of the group lived in the area, including artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, biographer Lytton Strachey and novelist Virginia Wolf.   Individual "Blue Plaques" commemorating the members of the Bloomsbury Group can be seen throughout the area.  Bloomsbury is still home to writers and artists and is a traditional centre of the book trade.  Although most of the publishers that once thronged Bedford Square have now moved out to less expensive locations, Bloomsbury is still known for its bookshops. 

They also indulged in multiple affairs, and were regarded by many at the time as being unnecessarily risqué. Still, with luminaries such as Virginia Woolf, EM Forster and John Maynard Keynes amongst their ranks they are now regarded as a major cultural force.

The British Museum is situated here too, and since the Great Court was redeveloped by Lord Foster it has become a draw for architectural fans as well as the thousands of families, school groups and museum fanatics who've flocked here for years.

With all this thinking going on it's no wonder that there are plenty of pubs and restaurants in the area to fuel the cognitive process. Bloomsbury isn't exactly gastro central, but does boast some very reasonable eateries.

In summertime Bloomsbury is one of the prettiest areas of London, and one that generally avoids getting too busy. If you have a Saturday to spare then I heartily recommend heading down sometime.

Orientation

Bloomsbury is very well-defined. It is the area south of the Euston Road, east of the Tottenham Court Road, north of High Holborn and west of Judd Street and Hunter Street. The busiest areas (thanks to the universities) are probably Gower Street and Woburn Place.

Tottenham Court Road in the Fitzrovia area was still a rural lane lined by cow sheds at the end of the 19th century, but today is full of shops.  'Fitzrovia' refers to the area around Fitzroy Square and neighbouring Charlotte Street. 

The name Fitzrovia was coined by the artists and writers, such as Dylan Thomas and George Orwell, who frequented the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street between World War I and II.The dignified Fitzroy Square was named after Henry Fitzroy, the son of Charles II, and later Earl of Euston. 

Blue plaques record the homes of many writers, artists and statesmen who have lived here.  

Fitzrovia's most outstanding landmark is the BT Tower but this    has been closed to the public since an IRA attack in 1971.

Today, Fitzrovia has a certain neglected charm.  Although there has long been a booming restaurant scene, tourists seldom wander north of Oxford Street, and Fitzrovia remains a quiet backwater.

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Hospital main entrance.

 

Getting to UCLH by tube

Euston Square, Warren Street, Goodge Street and Euston stations are all located within 5 minutes walk.

Some Local sights and sounds!

Fitzroy Square, a historic peaceful Edwardian Square in Fitzrovia

The Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road showing “we will rock you”

Charlotte Street at Night with it’s many famous restaurants and bars.

Radiotherapy equipment and facilities:

• 4 new (2005) dual energy Varian linear accelerators, 2 with OBI
• 1 new (2005) Varian Silhouhette linear accelerator
• 1 Acuity simulator
• 1 GE CT Sim
• 1 Gulmay SXR unit
• Dedicated brachytherapy (HDR) suite with Nucletron Microselectron
• Dedicated brachytherapy (HDR) suite with Nucletron Microselectron

Treatment planning and virtual simulation systems:

• Oncentra planning system
• GE virtual simulation

Specialities and Techniques:

• TBI
• HDR for prostate, gynae, lung, GI and others
• 10 inpatient shielded rooms
• Paediatric workload (over 130 new referrals per annum)
• Sarcoma – adolescent and adult
• Head & neck
• Neurology
• 1st IMRT patient to be treated – Spring 06
• IGRT work in progress

Superintendent Radiographers and job titles:

• Julia Solano and Linda Harvey – operational managers

Staffing levels and jobs varieties:

• 9 other superintendents currently in post
• 10 senior 1 radiographers
• 10 senior 2 radiographers
• 8-10 junior posts
• 1 MTO 5 – Head of Mould Room
• North London Cancer Network Clinical Learning Facilitator – shared with Royal Free & North Middlesex
• 2 radiotherapy nurses
• 2 trainee assistant practitioners (academic training through Anglia Ruskin University)
• 7 supporting A&C staff
• 2 play therapists

Student information:

• Our BSc students have their academic training at City University
  ( approx 5-6 students per year)