Sheffield

Patients undergoing bowel cancer treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be invited to try out personalised ‘vaccines’ as part of a groundbreaking NHS ‘matchmaking’ service. The Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad aims to recruit thousands of patients across England into various trials of a new type of immunotherapy treatment, known colloquially as cancer vaccines. The […]

Helen Foster of Hackenthorpe is one of the first patients in South Yorkshire to benefit from a treatment to remove clots from the blood vessels in her lungs. Mechanical thrombectomy uses a novel medical device to physically suck blood clots out from the lung. Foster started to struggle with breathlessness and mobility problems a few […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been chosen to host a new government-funded national HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) network, which will support the development of innovations for care of conditions including cancer, mental health, neurodegeneration and dementia, ageing, respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) HRC network […]

A young nurse who was diagnosed with a serious heart condition is among the first patients in the north of England to receive a new leadless pacemaker, which was implanted at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. A team of cardiologists, nurses, radiographers and physiologists at the South Yorkshire Cardiothoracic Centre, based at Northern General […]

Cancer patients in the Sheffield region are set to benefit from new treatments following the opening of a £4 million nuclear medicine and molecular radiotherapy suite at Weston Park Cancer Centre, Broomhill. Featuring precision technologies that can detect, image and treat tumours and visualise organ systems in real time, the suite will play a key […]

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using AI to better predict when a person’s kidneys might fail. Consultant nephrologist and clinical lead for genetics Professor Albert Ong, who has been using the tool in his specialist kidney clinic, said the software was six times faster than manual processes […]

Staff from the Sheffield Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Centre, based at Weston Park Cancer Centre, have celebrated 50 years of providing care. Sixty years ago, the rare group of tumours that grow from the tissue that forms during pregnancy was invariably fatal, but with the development of specialised treatments it is now more than 95 per […]

Sheffield’s carbon-neutral built community arena with multipurpose sports facility and integrated medical diagnostic centre has opened. Located on Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, Canon Medical Arena was built in collaboration with Park Community Arena (PCA), Sheffield Sharks basketball team and The LivingCare Group. Operated by The LivingCare Group, the centre features advanced Canon Medical imaging systems […]