Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination Information
Liver transplant patients should have been, or should be soon, contacted by their GP about flu and COVID-19 vaccination. If you are offered these vaccines we would recommend you have them. Neither of these are live vaccines so are perfectly safe for liver transplant recipients…
Outpatient prescriptions for patients attending a face to face appointment
If you attend an appointment on site at Kings and you are prescribed medications which you can only get from the hospital, please ensure you collect these from the pharmacy on the day of the appointment. In order to make this process quicker and more…
Information from King’s Liver Pharmacy – RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) Vaccination Programmes
From 1 September 2024, two new RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccination programmes will be introduced in the UK. Vaccination will be offered to the following groups. Adults aged 75 to 79 years old All adults turning 75 years old on or after 1 September 2024…
New Shingles Vaccine and Immunisation Programme
Kings Liver Pharmacy have provided the following information: The shingles National Immunisation Programme is changing from 1 September 2023 and more people are now eligible for a shingles vaccine, including anyone 50 years and over with a “severely weakened immune system”. The definition of severe…
A message from Kings Liver Pharmacy: Update to the immunosuppression protocol for liver transplant patients
From September 12th 2022, there will be a change to the immunosuppression protocol used for liver transplant patients. This will not affect existing transplant patients who are well established on their immunosuppression but will mean that newly transplanted patients will be on a different brand…
Measuring Immunosuppressive Drugs – presentation by Phil Morgan at Listen Group Zoom meeting July 2022
Listen were delighted to welcome Phil Morgan, Consultant Clinical Scientist at Kings, to the July Group Zoom meeting, where he gave a fascinating presentation on immunosuppression. He was kind enough to share with us his presentation. To view the presentation please click here.
Psychological Wellbeing – Liver Transplant
At the Listen Group Zoom meeting on Monday 16 May, we were delighted to welcome Dr Jemma Day, Clinical Psychologist at Kings, who talked about Psychological Wellbeing. It was a great session and Jemma has kindly shared with us her presentation. To view the presentation…
Possible Recording of Group Meetings
We would like to update you about the possibility of recording the speaker at our monthly group Zoom meetings. This is a subject that has long been on our agenda and has often been revisited. The move to online meetings has given many more members…
MONICA IS FUNDRAISING AGAIN!!
Some of you might remember our news last summer that Monica Walsh, one of the Listen Committee members, jumped out of a plane in aid of the British Liver Trust, having had it postponed from the previous year. This year, Monica is attempting a 10k…
GREAT NEWS – This Year’s British Transplant Games Will Go Ahead!
Those who attended the Listen Group Zoom meeting in March will have seen Donna Barrington Smith give us the good news that this year’s British Transplant Games (BTG) will be taking place in Leeds from Thursday 28 July until Sunday 31 July. Donna has kindly…
COVID-19 Vaccine Update – Booster Vaccination – “Fourth Jab”
Further to the news update on 16 December 2021. Kings Liver Unit have kindly provided us with the letter for their post liver transplant patients to use if they need it to prove their eligibility for the fourth jab. Click the link below to…
COVID-19 Vaccine Update
We have today been provided with the following update by Dr Aluvihare and Wendy Littlejohn at Kings: “The recommendation is that you receive a third primary dose three months after your second dose. In addition a booster (with Pfizer or Moderna) should be given…
PANORAMIC TRIAL – NOW CLOSED
Have you tested positive for COVID-19? Advice is always available from the Liver Transplant Co-ordinators at Kings Contact – Listen at King’s (listenatkings.org) – but we have also been informed of a study which might be of interest to you which is attempting to…
The MELODY Study
Some exciting news for Liver Transplant patients about a new study just about to start. The MELODY Study aims to assess antibody responses following three Covid-19 vaccine doses in immunocompromised people. It will include people who have received solid organ transplants, people with rare autoimmune…
Update on the “Cobalt” Study
Vishal Patel, the lead researcher from Kings on the COBALT study, spoke at the Listen Group meeting on 15 November to update us on the status of the study. The study involves 100 hospitals across Europe; Kings is one of only two hospitals in the…
“Barriers to you taking part in organ donation and transplantation clinical research” – Take part in the survey
The UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network has asked us to pass this on to the Listen community: The UK Organ Donation and Transplantation Research Network (UKODTRN) https://kidneyresearchuk.org/research/research-networks/ukodtrn/ works across the UK to make sure that health research will help the organ donation and transplant community…
Pride of Britain – Organ Transplant Event
ITV are working on an exciting filming opportunity surrounding organ donation. Do you live in or near London? We are putting together a filmed event featuring people whose lives have been positively influenced by organ donation, and who want to say THANK YOU to a…
Booster Vaccine For COVID-19
We have received the following advice from the Liver Unit at Kings: “All post-transplant patients who have received both doses of a Covid vaccine and are more than three months post transplant should contact their GP to arrange a booster vaccination as recommended by the…
News from Our Members!
Two Listen members are currently involved in raising money for charity – one is coming up in September and one happened just this week. They had both been postponed from their original dates last year. We would like to wish the best of luck to…
Opportunity to be Considered for Inclusion in the “Cobalt” Study at Kings
Those Listen members who attended the recent Group meeting where Dr Olly Tavabie spoke to us might recall he mentioned a study called “COBALT”. This study will investigate immune responses of Kings patients post-transplant after COVID vaccines and will open imminently at Kings. To help…
Advice from the Liver Transplant Co-Ordinators: Listen Group Zoom Meeting Monday 19 July 2021
COVID Advice Many members were concerned at the relaxation of restrictions that had come into effect from 19 July. At the meeting, the Co-ordinators made it clear that, should one of us unfortunately test positive for Covid, the Co-ordinators are always there to advise us…
Changes in Dispensing Immunosuppressant Medication from Kings
All immunosuppressant medications will now be dispensed by the outpatient pharmacy (KFM pharmacy) at King’s. It will no longer be possible for immunosuppression to be prescribed on a green prescription for you to take to your local pharmacy. (Patients who obtain their immunosuppression medication directly…
Appointments and Patient Health and Wellbeing
An opportunity for Kings liver transplant patients to give their views We are all aware that, during the Covid pandemic, Kings had to adapt very quickly to the way they care for and monitor all their patients, including Liver Transplant patients. They are currently following…
British Liver Trust Patient Webinars
The British Liver Trust runs a range of webinars of interest to Liver Transplant patients. The next webinar on 18 May is likely to be of particular interest to those who are listed for transplant or have been told they are likely to need one…
COVID Resources
The Listen Committee is very aware of how difficult this is for our members – as we are having exactly the same experience ourselves. Our circumstances vary as do those of our members but one thing we know is that it can be very lonely…