Hospitals offer better access to information
25th January 2017
Patients can get condition specific information at the touch of a button, thanks to one small but significant change made to hospital leaflets. Scannable square barcodes, commonly known as QR codes, have now been added to all patient leaflets published on Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s website. This means that, simply by scanning a leaflet’s code with a QR reader installed on a mobile phone or tablet, a person can download a copy of … Read More
Hull to host global meeting of headache experts
24th January 2017
Research, prevention strategies, and why migraine tends to affect women in particular, are just three of the topics for discussion as headache and migraine experts from around the world descend on Hull this week. Guests and speakers from as far afield as Denmark, Norway and the United States will attend the seventh Biennial National Meeting on Headache, organised jointly by the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH), Migraine Trust and the Department of … Read More
Patients urged to look at alternatives as hospitals reach full capacity
9th January 2017
People who are unwell are being urged to look at alternatives to Hull Royal Infirmary’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) as winter pressures begin to bite. Over the last week, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has seen bed occupancy exceed capacity as local hospitals deal with an increase in the amount of sick people admitted through the A&E Department at Hull Royal Infirmary. Hospital managers are now urging people not to come to A&E unless … Read More
Baby steps for year-long City of Culture arts project
1st January 2017
A special project designed to celebrate every baby born during Hull’s City of Culture year has kicked off today. ‘Born into a City of Culture’ is a project which involves taking a footprint of every baby born in the city during 2017 and using those prints to make an artwork. The project will last for 12 months, building up pictures of different trees through the seasons, with footprints forming the leaves and local midwives’ handprints … Read More
Hospitals’ history lesson as East Yorkshire’s most festive ward 2016 is crowned
22nd December 2016
It started out as a bit of fun to create festive cheer, but little did staff at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust know they were about to get a history lesson. The Dr Hermon Cup was originally awarded back in 1938 to the ‘Best Decorated Ward’ at the old Anlaby Road Hospital. After the 78-year-old silver trophy was recently uncovered in the Trust Archive, a small team of staff decided to stage a new … Read More