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When Monica Korpal’s husband was diagnosed with cancer, she was triggered to give something back to the NHS, specifically Nottingham University Hospitals where she has been treated for over 40 years for a rare blood disorder, leaving her in need of two units of blood every three weeks.

We recognise that there is a lot in the media at the moment about our hospitals as discussions have been taking place about our community moving into Tier 3.

Nottingham City Hospital has gained global recognition and become the only hospital in the UK - and only the second in Europe - to be Magnet® recognised by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Our clinical researchers are used to the sweet smell of success as their world-beating research is changing the lives of thousands of patients.

But now they are seeking an altogether more pungent odour as they ask their NUH colleagues to take part in testing whether medical detection dogs can be used to help identify COVID-19 in patients at the earliest stage of the infection, before symptoms occur or in cases where patients do not have any symptoms.