Queen’s Centre offers 3D virtual tour to help patients facing cancer treatment
11th March 2019
A virtual tour of the Queen’s Centre has been created by a hospital oncology team to help people about to embark on life-saving cancer treatment. Patients can ‘walk’ through the doors of the centre at Castle Hill Hospital and explore each area of the building from the café on the ground floor to the day unit, radiotherapy and corridors leading to the wards. Stephen Miller, Business Manager for Specialist Services at the Queen’s Centre, said: … Read More
Families to be shown Safer Sleep techniques to keep babies safe
7th March 2019
The mother of a baby who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome will join midwives at an event in Hull next week to help families keep their children safe when they go to sleep. Jennifer Wakefield’s son Ralph was just six months old when he died from SIDS, one of five babies to lose their lives every week. Now, Jennifer will join midwives from Hull Women and Children’s Hospital at St Stephen’s shopping centre on … Read More
Male nurses and female medics: inspiring the next generation of health professionals
6th March 2019
Hospital staff in Hull are seeking to reverse traditional stereotypes when it comes to healthcare careers. The commonly held belief than ‘nurses are women and doctors are men’ is something that Simon Knopp, Practice Development Matron for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is helping to address. Simon, a former Royal Engineer who has served in Bosnia, was inspired into his nursing career by his wife after leaving the forces. Now, having practiced as a … Read More
Dramatic reduction in stillbirths after new guidelines are introduced in Hull
6th March 2019
Stillbirth has been reduced by more than one third in two years at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital after maternity services adopted national guidelines to save babies’ lives. Medical and Midwifery teams at Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust have reduced stillbirths by 36 per cent from 25 in 2016/17 to 14 so far in 2018/19. Helping women to stop smoking when they become pregnant, monitoring women at risk of stillbirth more closely and checking babies’ … Read More
Engineer says new hospital stroke service saved him from brain damage
5th March 2019
An engineer saved by the quick actions of his wife has told how two hospitals worked together to prevent him suffering brain damage after a stroke. Stuart Dixon, 58, became the first patient to be “blue-lighted” from Scunthorpe’s Hyper Acute Stroke Unit to Hull Royal Infirmary to undergo a mechanical thrombectomy to reduce the risk of brain damage or long-term disability. Stuart said: “My care has been incredible. “If I had been a member of … Read More