Celebrating the team helping young people with cerebral palsy
6th October 2022
It’s World Cerebral Palsy Day today and we’d like to say a massive thank you to our paediatric team for the fantastic work they’ve done to support children and young people. The paediatric team have worked so hard to improve services and develop a care pathway for children and young people and their families affected by the life-long condition in East Yorkshire. Damian Haire, Operations Director of Family and Women’s Health Group, said: “Our team … Read More
New partial booking system to benefit patients
28th September 2022
Hospitals in East Yorkshire are offering patients the chance to agree their own appointment times in order to speed up care and reduce waiting lists. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s partial booking system enables patients to choose a time and day for outpatient appointments that is most convenient for them*. The process is simple; when it’s a patient’s turn to be booked in, they will receive a letter from the Trust, but instead of … Read More
See how you could help save nine lives
26th September 2022
Organ donation is the gift of an organ to help someone who needs a transplant. Thousands of lives in the UK are saved or transformed each year by organ transplants. Organs that can be donated by people who have died include heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, liver and small bowel. Tissue such as skin, bone and heart valves can also be used to save and improve people’s lives, and corneas can help to restore people’s sight. … Read More
Bank Holiday arrangements, Monday 19 September
15th September 2022
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been reviewing arrangements for patient services following the announcement of Monday 19 September as a Bank Holiday. The Trust and the clinical teams have worked together to enable as much planned activity as possible to proceed on the Bank Holiday and can confirm that around two thirds of all planned surgical procedures which have been scheduled for this date, including the most urgent operations and cancer cases, will … Read More
Hull Hospitals to host international chest injury conference
5th September 2022
Health professionals from across the globe will descend on East Yorkshire tomorrow as a team from Hull Hospitals plays host to a prestigious clinical event. The major trauma team from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will host the Chest Wall Injury Society (CWIS) Modern Management of Chest Wall Injury conference tomorrow, Tuesday 6 September, at the Mercure Grange Park Hotel in Willerby. The honour of hosting the conference comes just weeks after the Trust’s … Read More