Tell us about your Healthcare Heroes
4th April 2025
Help us shine a light on your Healthcare Heroes! We need your nominations for a special award to celebrate the amazing efforts of local NHS staff. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are working together as NHS Humber Health Partnership (NHSHHP). Our teams work across Hull, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Castle Hill and Goole hospitals, and out in the community. Our annual staff awards ceremony, Golden Stars 2025 will … Read More
A holistic approach to health and recovery
2nd April 2025
Water-based wellbeing programme also helps to improve patient flow The benefits of water-based therapy have been well known for centuries to the Greeks, the Romans, and later the Ottomans, but you don’t have to step back in time to discover just how helpful this can be. The rehabilitation medicine team at Castle Hill Hospital has been working with East Riding Leisure to offer access to tailored health and wellbeing programmes to aid patients’ physical mobility, … Read More
‘Don’t suffer in silence,” says hospital specialist nurse
1st April 2025
Thousands of women in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire could be suffering in silence with incontinence or bladder weakness, a hospital nurse specialist says. Laura Rimmer, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Urogynaecology at Humber Health Partnership, says more than six in 10 women will experience some form of incontinence during their lives. However, despite its prevalence, many will not seek help because of embarrassment. Urogynaecological specialist nurse Laura Rimmer Laura, who works for the NHS … Read More
Overcome your “poo” embarrassment, says bowel screening team
31st March 2025
A hospital screening service is appealing to people in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire to overcome their embarrassment so they can be checked for bowel cancer. Everyone aged 50 to 74 is eligible for bowel screening every two years. However, although bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, figure show only 69 per cent of people send back their tests, meaning those with cancer are missing out on early treatment which … Read More
Patients with endometriosis to benefit from national accolade
26th March 2025
Patients across the region with endometriosis are benefiting from a specialist service which has been recognised nationally. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – part of the NHS Humber Health Partnership group – have yet again had their endometriosis centres accredited by the British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE). This puts our gynaecology services on the map and gives patients the confidence that they’ll receive … Read More