Couple’s 21-year mission to raise funds for hospital neurosurgical department
12th November 2019
A couple have purchased special equipment to help patients with brain tumours as part of their £165,000 fundraising drive in memory of their daughter. Ruth and Tony Knowles embarked on the mission to support the neurosurgical department at Hull Royal Infirmary following the death of their daughter Emma-Jayne in 1998. The couple, of Sutton-on-Sea in Lincolnshire who were awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year’s Honours List in 2014 for their fundraising, presented … Read More
Justin achieves his nursing dream in Hull after seven years in a refugee camp
7th November 2019
He spent seven years in a refugee camp, watching the sick and dying suffer in a camp with little access to nursing or medical help. Justin Mwange fled to Zambia from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as a teenager with his family and spent seven years living in abject poverty and deprivation. He watched men, women and children dying at the side of the road because they were not able to get medical attention … Read More
Hospital outpatients service to undergo major transformation
4th November 2019
Outpatient services at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital are to be transformed as part of a major plan to save patients time, money and stress. Hospital consultants and GPs will work more closely after Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull Clinical Commissioning Group and East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group were selected to take part in the transformation programme. The Elective Care Transformation Programme, part of the NHS Long Term Plan … Read More
Students to learn how bacteria heals largest organ with skin biology expert
29th October 2019
Around 200 school students will learn how major open wounds are healed by bacteria when a world expert comes to Hull Royal Infirmary during National Pathology Week. Professor Mat Hardman of the University of Hull, regarded as the world’s leading expert on using bacteria to heal wounds, will outline his work to students aged 14 and over during the 90-minute interactive demonstration. The event for schools will be held at the Lecture Theatre in the … Read More
‘Patients Know Best’ system introduced to help patients keep track of appointments
28th October 2019
More than one quarter of a million patients in Hull and the East Riding will be invited to sign up for a new digital online system to allow them to keep track of hospital visits and play an active role in their own health care. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is introducing the Patients Know Best online system initially for outpatient appointments so patients can receive electronic notification of their appointments as soon as … Read More