Work begins on refurbishment of children’s wards at Hull Royal Infirmary
29th August 2018
Sick babies, children and young people are set to benefit from the refurbishment of the paediatric department at Hull Royal Infirmary. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, supported by the WISHH charity, has begun the first phase of a project to revamp the two wards on the 13th floor of the tower block caring for children and young people, including some with cancer or mental health problems. Junior sister Helen Lyon came up with the idea … Read More
Parents-to-be use virtual reality headsets to ‘experience’ labour and birth
29th August 2018
Hull Women and Children’s Hospital looks set to become the first in the world to use virtual reality (VR) to give parents-to-be an immersive experience of labour and birth. Pregnant women and their partners are road-testing VR headsets to “enter” the Fatima Allam Birth Centre where a woman is using one of the birthing pools in labour, supported by the baby’s father. Women can also “enter” the operating theatre where a mother is undergoing a … Read More
Young people help to transform hospital grounds
28th August 2018
Young people from Hull aged 15 to 17 have been rolling up their sleeves at an East Yorkshire hospital to help improve the surroundings for patients, staff and visitors alike. Forty five teenagers taking part in the National Citizen Service (NCS) with Hymers College have redeveloped previously unused green space at Castle Hill Hospital and tidied other areas in need of attention. The group has spent a week clearing an area near to ‘The Folly’ … Read More
Woman thanks nurses who sent her an anniversary card from her dying husband
28th August 2018
A woman has thanked two nurses for helping her husband send her a wedding anniversary card hours before he died. Mark Murrell, 51, was rushed into the respiratory high dependency unit on Ward 5 at Hull Royal Infirmary in the final stages of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an incurable, progressive condition which leads to a decline in lung function. He told staff nurses Sam Quiney and Hannah North he was about to celebrate his 29th … Read More
‘It might sound stupid but it’s like going back to a family’
23rd August 2018
He is a familiar friendly face always there to greet you with a smile, a cup of tea and, if you’re lucky, a biscuit. For the past 10 years, Harry Allon gives up his time to volunteer at the Queen’s Centre in the oncology day unit and outpatients department. “It might sound stupid but, especially now I’m on my own, when I go to the Queen’s Centre and I see the same faces you get … Read More