Patients with blood conditions benefit from new service at Queen’s Centre
25th June 2024
Patients with serious blood conditions are avoiding invasive surgery and additional overnight stays in hospital after an innovative procedure was offered to more people in East Yorkshire. Intravenous lines for patients requiring stem cell transplant following intensive chemotherapy are now being offered to haematology patients at Ward 33 and the Teenage and Young Adults Unit after its successful use in oncology patients at the Queen’s Centre. In the past 12 months, 32 haematology patients have … Read More
Trust welcomes new Board member
24th June 2024
A new Non-Executive Director (NED) has been appointed to the board of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH). Helen Wright joins the Board working alongside the Chairman, Chief Executive, Executive Directors and Trust Secretary. As HUTH is now part of a Group with Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, Helen will sit on the Trust Boards in Common Meeting for NHS Humber Health Partnership. NEDs are responsible for ensuring the Trust Board acts … Read More
Preparations underway for Summer strike action
20th June 2024
Junior doctors across the Humber region will begin their latest round of industrial action next week as part of their long-running pay dispute with the Government. Members of the BMA will take industrial action in the form of a full walkout for five days – from 7am on Thursday 27 June until 6.59am on Tuesday 2 July. Staff at Castle Hill, Hull, Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe hospitals have put plans in place to prepare for … Read More
Domestic abuse information boards at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital
13th June 2024
Information boards have been placed in Hull Women and Children’s Hospital in time for the start of Euro 2024 to support people experiencing domestic abuse. Researchers at Warwick Business School discovered abuse and violence by partners increase by 47 per cent on days when the men’s England side win a World Cup or European Championship match. Clinical support worker Tracey Walker Now, Clinical Support Worker Tracey Walker has updated information boards in the Gynaecology Outpatients … Read More
Physios become first to give ultrasounds by patient bedsides
12th June 2024
Patients with major injuries and illnesses, including brain injuries and serious heart conditions, can now be given lung ultrasounds without leaving their hospital beds. Physiotherapists Emily Cockshutt and Aaron Hales have become the first at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, part of NHS Humber Health Partnership, to qualify in a new technique to perform lung ultrasounds by patients’ bedsides, helping people with serious breathing problems. Physio Emily Cockshutt The technique, endorsed by the Intensive Care Society, … Read More