Hospitals launch innovative Medical Physics programme for apprentices
11th April 2023
Hull’s hospitals have become among the first in the country to offer three innovative healthcare science apprenticeships in its Medical Physics team. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has secured £250,000 funding from Health Education England to be able to offer apprenticeships with degree-level training in the highly specialised fields of Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Protection and Diagnostic Imaging Services and Radiotherapy Engineering. Three apprentices recruited to the project will join the Medical Physics teams on … Read More
Hospitals gear up for next junior doctors strike, starting 11 April 2023
3rd April 2023
Junior doctors are due to begin 96 hours of industrial action next week. Members of the BMA and HCSA unions will go on strike immediately following the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, starting at 7am on Tuesday 11 April and ending at 7am on Saturday 15 April 2023. Junior doctors are qualified doctors who have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working in hospitals. Junior doctors account for half of all doctors in the NHS, and … Read More
Cancer screening invite was ‘like winning the lottery’
1st April 2023
A Royal Navy veteran from East Yorkshire has described his invite for cancer screening as his ‘winning lottery ticket.’ April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, and Gary Terry, from Market Weighton, was only 55 when he received an invitation through the post to take part in bowel scope screening. Gary served in the Royal Navy for eight years Following a whirlwind cancer journey, Gary is now keen to tell his story to prevent other families … Read More
HUTH opens new NHS care facility to free up hospital beds
27th March 2023
Hull is to open its first state-of-the-art care facility as an innovation solution to free up hospital beds for people most in need of care. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) is investing £3.8m in Paragon Intermediate Discharge Suite for patients no longer receiving hospital treatment but still requiring care and support. Each day, Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital has a shortage of beds because up to 200 people are waiting on … Read More
Caring for the carers
24th March 2023
Help to balance the demands of work and home life following a loved one’s cancer diagnosis A cancer diagnosis can be a shock to the system, not just for the patient but also for their loved ones. Thoughts can race from treatment and side effects to the impact on family, work, and what else the future could hold. In order to help guide people through such a time of uncertainty, the Macmillan Living With and … Read More