Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Information boards have been placed in Hull Women and Children’s Hospital in time for the start of Euro 2024 to support people experiencing domestic abuse. Researchers at Warwick Business School discovered abuse and violence by partners increase by 47 per cent on days when the men’s England side win a World Cup or European Championship match. Now, Clinical Support Worker … Read More

Patients with major injuries and illnesses, including brain injuries and serious heart conditions, can now be given lung ultrasounds without leaving their hospital beds. Physiotherapists Emily Cockshutt and Aaron Hales have become the first at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, part of NHS Humber Health Partnership, to qualify in a new technique to perform lung ultrasounds by patients’ bedsides, helping people … Read More

A woman who became a mother, lost her partner and discovered she had HIV within 18 months is to appear at a conference in Hull to explain the impact of bereavement. International speaker and award-winning social entrepreneur Lizzie Jordan will attend “At A Loss For Words”, a conference aiming to help company bosses and employers support staff returning to work … Read More

A team researching the factors which influence family health has smashed its annual recruitment target in the space of just three months. The response to the Born and Bred in (BaBi) Hull and East Yorkshire study has been so overwhelming that the research team, based at Hull Royal Infirmary, has signed up more than 400 participants in the space of … Read More

Message of hope as health experts prepare for event to bring our insides out In 2019, Jenny Lake, a management consultant from Barrow-upon-Humber, was diagnosed with colitis. Already going through a very difficult time in her life, the news came as a shock. Yet ironically, the stress she was under could well have triggered the colitis flare-up which ultimately led … Read More

Stomach pain. Digestive difficulties. Toilet troubles. Whatever you want to call them, not many of us like to talk about them. But when you consider that more than 5,500 people in Hull and the East Riding are living with a diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and around 430 people in our region alone will be diagnosed with bowel cancer … Read More

Our End of Life and Pastoral and Spiritual Care teams are encouraging people to get talking about death, dying and grief in whatever way, shape or form works for them for Dying Matters Awareness Week. The national campaign, which runs from 6 to 12 May, aims to open up conversations around death and dying. This year’s theme focuses on the … Read More