#smearnotfear team urges ‘Please attend your appointment’
16th June 2025
Put your health before embarrassment or fear and attend your smear test appointment, a hospital team says. Cervical cancer screening rates in our area are higher than the national average, thanks to Hull’s #smearnotfear team from Hull Women and Children’s Hospital. Around 72pc of women, trans men and non-binary people in the 25 to 49 age group and almost 77pc aged between 50 to 64 attended their smear test appointments last year compared to 67.5pc … Read More
Kilimanjaro climb for rare cancer survivor
13th June 2025
A young man from South Cave is going to great lengths to give back to Castle Hill Hospital after a rollercoaster cancer journey. In the autumn of 2022, Freddie Cole was diagnosed with Stage 4 Burkitts lymphoma, a rare cancer of both the bone marrow and the lymph system which affects just 210 people in the UK each year. Freddie was treated on Ward 33, the Teenage and Young Adult Unit at the Queen’s Centre, … Read More
Attend your appointments to keep diabetes in check
9th June 2025
A hospital consultant is urging people with diabetes to attend their check-ups and appointments to prevent the risk of developing serious illness. Dr Belinda Allan, Consultant in General Medicine and Endocrinology at NHS Humber Health Partnership, said check ups are the best way to manage this serious, complicated condition. At the start of Diabetes Awareness Week, Dr Allan said: “There are many complications linked to diabetes including problems with your eyes or feet, heart attacks, … Read More
Honorary contract awarded to P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery
3rd June 2025
Local charity P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery has recently been awarded an honorary contract with Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH), working as part of NHS Humber Health Partnership*. This contract allows Paul Spence and P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery Service Delivery Manager Nathalie Martin, to serve as charity advisors on the Neurosurgery and Neuro Trauma wards (Wards 4 and 40) at Hull Royal Infirmary (HRI), as well as on the Complex Rehabilitation Ward at Castle … Read More
Pets, pianos and potting plants
2nd June 2025
Time to celebrate the changing face of hospital volunteering this Volunteers Week Wendy plays piano at the Queen’s Centre, Castle Hill Hospital Think of hospitals, and most people think doctors and nurses, and yet for many people entering a hospital, one of the first people you’re likely to bump into is a volunteer. Hospitals across the Humber are full of them, more than 650 in fact, working across Goole, Hull, Grimsby, Castle Hill and Scunthorpe, … Read More