Deadline reminder for ‘Baby Footprints’ artwork
20th February 2018
Parents have less than two weeks to purchase postcards and prints of their babies’ footprints featured in artwork to mark Hull’s year as City of Culture. Footprints of babies born in the city throughout 2017 created a unique piece of art now displayed in the foyer of Hull Women and Children’s Hospital. Postcards were released throughout the year as each of the completed panels was unveiled, with a print of the entire artwork produced last … Read More
Trust offers nursing careers to record numbers of university students
20th February 2018
Record numbers of student nurses have been offered careers working for a major teaching hospital in Yorkshire. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is interviewing 165 student nurses this week as part of its Remarkable People, Extraordinary Place recruitment campaign. Despite a national shortage of around 40,000 nurses, the trust is on course to hire record numbers of newly qualified nurses in 2018/19 to boost existing staff levels at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill … Read More
Patient tracking issues – Trust statement
14th February 2018
In 2017, the Trust identified a cohort of patients who have not been tracked appropriately through its patient administration system, Lorenzo. It is not uncommon for Trusts to experience this kind of issue as a result of any new system implementation. Around 85,000 patient records in total, some dating back to 2015, were identified as not having tracked properly. Following an initial review of those 85,000 records, a total of 7,433 patients have been identified … Read More
What you need to know about giving birth in water
7th February 2018
Choosing to give birth in water can increase relaxation and reduce the need for medical intervention and is used by almost one in three women for pain relief during labour. All three of the suites in the Fatima Allam Birth Centre in Hull are fitted with birthing pools and there is a pool in the delivery ward of Hull Women and Children’s Hospital. Now, midwifery sister Suzanna Lascelles is encouraging women to consider water births … Read More
Grieving family donate incubator described as ‘next best thing to the womb’
6th February 2018
The family of a young man killed in a motorbike accident are donating an incubator described as “the next best thing to the womb” to care for the area’s sickest babies. Specialist staff at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) based in Hull Women and Children’s Hospital will start a trial of the Drager Babyleo incubator this week. NICU is a regional specialist centre looking after babies born prematurely or with health complications from across … Read More