HUTH IR Consultants travel to India to share skills
16th June 2023
In a significant collaboration, a team of IR consultants from the Trust and the Christian Medical College in Vellore recently led an Interventional Radiology (IR) advanced practice course on vascular interventions in India. This pioneering initiative provided postgraduate trainees in IR with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in the field. The course marked a crucial milestone in advancing IR practices and fostering international cooperation in medical education between the two healthcare providers. … Read More
Junior doctors to begin 72hrs of strike action on Wednesday 14 June
12th June 2023
Junior doctors are due to begin 72 hours of industrial action this week. Members of the BMA and HCSA unions will go on strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June 2023, and the industrial action will end at 7am on Saturday 17 June. Junior doctors are qualified doctors who have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working in hospitals. Junior doctors account for half of all doctors in the NHS, and they play a key … Read More
LiLY Walks launched to help bereaved parents
9th June 2023
A specialist healthcare team from Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham is teaming up with Fitmums & Friends to help support bereaved parents. Castle Hill Hospital’s Teenage and Young Adults Cancer Service, part of the Teenage Cancer Trust, will join forces with the charity to launch ‘LiLY Walks’ later this month. The ‘LiLY’ in LiLY Walks stands for Lives Lost Young. The idea is provide parents who have lost a child or young person, in any … Read More
WISHH Charity launches £100,000 Space to Grow Appeal
6th June 2023
WISHH, the official charity of Hull Hospitals has launched its annual appeal, ‘Space to Grow’ to raise £100,000 to enhance the facilities of Hull’s NICU. This will complement the Hospital Trust’s expansion of the unit by 5 cots. Each year, Hull Hospitals’ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) cares for over 500 premature babies, some stay for hours or days, whilst others stay for weeks and months. Francesca Mathews (L) Tracey Omar (M) and Jack Jowitt Hull … Read More
Hull’s hospitals scores success with its Getting to Work staff travel campaign
5th June 2023
Hull University Teaching Hospitals has achieved a dramatic 13 per cent reduction in staff driving to and from work in the first year of its sustainability travel project. Results from HUTH’s annual staff travel survey show the number of staff driving to Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham has declined significantly, with corresponding increases in staff switching to public transport, cycling or walking to work. More than 1,000 members of staff responded … Read More