Patients well enough to be discharged from hospital are returning home sooner after the launch of a new seven-day service. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is teaming up with the British Red Cross to offer the assisted discharge scheme to patients ready to be discharged from Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham. And, for the first … Read More

Fathers and partners feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of becoming a parent will be supported at a hospital event next week helping couples prepare for the birth of their baby. Midwives and health teams trained in pregnancy support, birth, home safety and child care will be at the next Hey Baby Carousel at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, … Read More

A children’s surgeon is raising awareness of the dangers of magnets after saving the lives of children falling victim to a new ‘body piercing’ craze. Hull Royal Infirmary’s paediatric surgery department has treated three children who have swallowed high powered ball-bearing magnets in the past three months. Sanja Besarovic, a consultant paediatric surgeon at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, … Read More

People have been turning up at Hull Royal Infirmary’s A&E department to ask emergency staff to remove acrylic nails and squeeze their blackheads. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is producing a video revealing the non-medical requests from the public as emergency frontline teams come under the toughest winter pressures in recent years. In the video, nursing staff tell how … Read More

Parents have less than two weeks to purchase postcards and prints of their babies’ footprints featured in artwork to mark Hull’s year as City of Culture. Footprints of babies born in the city throughout 2017 created a unique piece of art now displayed in the foyer of Hull Women and Children’s Hospital. Postcards were released throughout the year as each … Read More

Record numbers of student nurses have been offered careers working for a major teaching hospital in Yorkshire. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is interviewing 165 student nurses this week as part of its Remarkable People, Extraordinary Place recruitment campaign. Despite a national shortage of around 40,000 nurses, the trust is on course to hire record numbers of newly qualified … Read More

In 2017, the Trust identified a cohort of patients who have not been tracked appropriately through its patient administration system, Lorenzo. It is not uncommon for Trusts to experience this kind of issue as a result of any new system implementation. Around 85,000 patient records in total, some dating back to 2015, were identified as not having tracked properly. Following … Read More

Choosing to give birth in water can increase relaxation and reduce the need for medical intervention and is used by almost one in three women for pain relief during labour. All three of the suites in the Fatima Allam Birth Centre in Hull are fitted with birthing pools and there is a pool in the delivery ward of Hull Women … Read More

The family of a young man killed in a motorbike accident are donating an incubator described as “the next best thing to the womb” to care for the area’s sickest babies. Specialist staff at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) based in Hull Women and Children’s Hospital will start a trial of the Drager Babyleo incubator this week. NICU is … Read More

Fewer patients are facing delays at Hull Royal’s A&E after an eight-day initiative freed up beds and diverted staff to the frontline to cope with winter pressures. Operation Wintergreen was launched by the trust on Monday, January 29, to reduce delays in A&E and reduce the number of patients with medical conditions who were being sent to surgical wards because … Read More