Visitors asked to wear face masks at Hull Royal Infirmary
8th January 2026
Visitors to wards and clinical departments at Hull Royal Infirmary are being asked to wear face masks from today to protect patients from winter illnesses. Staff in all clinical areas of the hospital will be wearing face masks after an increase in patients admitted to hospital with flu, diarrhoea and vomiting and Norovirus over the past week. Dr Debbie Wearmouth, Infection Doctor at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, said: “We are asking visitors to wear masks … Read More
Consultant midwife offers advice after safety concerns over Nestle formula milk
8th January 2026
Parents using formula milk to feed their babies are being warned that 11 different Nestle products have been removed from the market because of safety concerns. The Food Standards Agency has issued an alert after several SMA Infant Formula and Follow-On Formula products were removed from sale as a precaution because of the possible presence of a harmful toxin. Now, the Consultant Midwife for Public Health at NHS Humber Health Partnership, the organisation running maternity … Read More
From cancer patient to cancer research nurse
8th January 2026
When she was diagnosed with a rare form of gynaecological cancer in 2015, Zowie Fussey from Ulceby, North Lincolnshire, could barely have imagined where she’d be ten years later on. Zowie Fussey during her cancer treatment The former administrative worker and then mum-of-two to Keaton and Martin was diagnosed with a granulosa cell tumour, a rare form of ovarian cancer, at the age of just 33. Zowie needed a radical hysterectomy and nine weeks of … Read More
Patients offered extra choice for routine blood tests
30th December 2025
It was originally set up to deliver faster access to diagnostic tests usually carried out in hospitals. Now Hull’s £18m Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), based on Albion Street, is working with a growing number of GP practices to offer routine blood tests more quickly too. Hull’s Community Diagnostic Centre on Albion Street A two-week pilot project with four local surgeries launched in October, through which phlebotomy staff in the CDC took participating patients’ bloods in … Read More
Appeal to families in Hull and East Yorkshire to consider corneal donations
22nd December 2025
Families in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire are being asked to offer the gift of sight to blind or partially sighted people. Around 70 ocular donations are required for transplantation each week to help those with sight problems but supplies of corneal tissue are well below levels needed by hospitals. Now, NHS Humber Health Partnership, the organisation running Hull Royal Infirmary, Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham, Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, Goole Hospital … Read More