UKNG Home News Archive – Annoucement Filtered results shown below. Filter by type (Annoucement) All Annoucement Reccomendation Standard Thrombectomy Trainee Blogs Training Archived by date All November 2024 July 2024 February 2024 October 2023 September 2023 July 2023 March 2023 January 2023 October 2022 September 2022 July 2022 April 2022 January 2022 November 2021 October 2021 June 2021 February 2021 October 2020 September 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 April 2018 January 2018 September 2017 April 2017 February 2017 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 June 2016 May 2016 March 2016 February 2016 November 2015 NOMINATIONS FOR CHAIR OF UKNG 01 Jul 2024 Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware, Rob Lenthall’s term of office as Chair of UKNG is due to come to an end in the near future. If you are interested in becoming Chair, commencing in August 2024, please respond to... Read more 55th UKNG Meeting (Canary Wharf, London) 25 Apr 2018 The 55th UKNG meeting was successfully held on 08/06 and 09/06 (Friday & Saturday) at the Hilton London Canary Wharf . This meeting was hosted by the team from Queens, Romford. External speakers Shahram and... Read more 54th UKNG Meeting (Preston) 22 Sep 2017 The 54th UKNG meeting was successfully held on Friday Nov 24th and Saturday 25th 2017 at the Preston Marriott. Preston Marriott. Garstang Rd, Broughton, Preston PR3 5JB Read more NHS England announced specialised commissioning of mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke 17 Apr 2017 NHS England has announced that it will commission mechanical thrombectomy so it can become more widely available for eligible patients. Work by NHS England is now underway to assess the readiness of each of the 24 neuroscience centres across the... Read more 53rd UKNG Meeting (Bristol) 02 Feb 2017 The June UKNG has been successfully held in Bristol on 9th/10th June Thanks to Shelley, Marcus and Alex and their excellent work. UKNG committee Read more 52nd UKNG Meeting (Hull) 02 Nov 2016 The 52nd UKNG meeting was successfully held on Friday Nov 25th and Saturday 26th. The meeting started at 2.30 pm on Friday (25th November) & finished with lunch on Saturday at Cave Castle Hotel & Country Club, South Cave, Brough,... Read more Standard of Acute Ischaemic Stroke Thrombectomy Service 19 Oct 2016 The latest version of standards for providing safe acute ischaemic stroke thrombectomy services, endorsed by BSNR, UKNG, BASP, NAAGBI and Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party, is now available for online download. Click here to view the full... Read more BSNR Training Guidance for Mechanical Thrombectomy 19 Oct 2016 Guidance for practitioners seeking training to participate in an acute ischaemic stroke thrombectomy service in the UK. Produced by members of the UK Neurointerventional Group (UKNG) and British Society of Neuroradiologists... Read more Revamped UK Flow Diverter Registry 19 Aug 2016 Dear Colleagues, The UKNG FD Registry is now live in revamped professional format. Please follow the link to get a login assigned Best wishes, Phil Read more Chair’s Post – Announcing the New Chair of UKNG 25 May 2016 am pleased to inform you that the next Chair of the UKNG will be Dr Peter Flynn from Belfast. Peter and his wife, Karen, will be well known to most of you. Peter has been a regular attender at our meetings for many years and... Read more 51st UKNG Meeting (Manchester) 18 Mar 2016 The 51st UKNG meeting has successfully taken place on 10th-11th June 2016 at the Hilton Deansgate hotel in Manchester. Scietific programme 10/06/2016 (Fri) 9-12... Read more NICE Guidance on Mechanical Thrombectomy 28 Feb 2016 National Institue for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published updated guidance on 24th Feb 2016, which approves mechanical clot retrieval to treat eligible stroke patients on NHS. “NICE guidelines set the stage for thrombectomy to... Read more 50th UKNG Meeting (Lisbon) 26 Nov 2015 The 50th UKNG meeting had been successfully held in Lisbon on 20th-21st November. More than 30 members from major UK neuroscience centres who are joined by theirs spouses or partners have attended the 2- day meeting at the beautiful Olissippo... Read more Back to News Home