She was on shift when a colleague from the Department of Elderly Medicine arrived with a story which moved her to tears. Health care assistant Sally Hilton, 39, was working on Acorn Ward in Hull Women and Children’s Hospital when a member of staff from the 8th floor appealed to them for help. Sally said: “She asked if there was … Read More

The family of a mother who touched hearts across East Yorkshire during her battle with breast cancer are helping people living in pain. Mum-of-two Kerry Key won widespread admiration for her refusal to give up after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Determined to continue looking after her son Lewis and daughter Georgia, Kerry threw herself into fundraising for local … Read More

Energy bills at East Yorkshire’s two main hospitals could be slashed by £39m after plans for a major energy upgrade were approved. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust plans to build two combined heat and power (CHP) plants at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital as part of a £13.7m energy scheme. New LED lighting would also be introduced … Read More

The latest panel of the Born into a City of Culture artwork project was installed at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital earlier today. The October panel, with its autumnal oranges, reds and browns, is the tenth of 12 panels to be mounted in the hospital’s entrance. The project involves taking the footprint of every baby born in Hull in 2017 … Read More

Hospital appointment times have been reduced dramatically for scores of patients after health care assistants were trained to deliver vital heart checks to patients. Around 60 patients attending appointments at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital every month had to go to the Hull Royal Infirmary’s tower block for electrocardiograms (ECGs) to check heart rhythms and electrical activity before undergoing surgery … Read More

  Staff, patients and visitors are being urged to be on the look-out today for a giraffe lost somewhere in Castle Hill Hospital. Margaret Atkin, 78, was given the toy giraffe by great grandson Jacob Rider, four, when she was admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital in Cottingham nine weeks ago. The soft toy, which doesn’t have … Read More

Families have thanked Hull doctors for saving their children’s lives in a moving video to mark 40 years of paediatric surgery. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will play host to some of the UK’s leading children’s doctors today (Friday) to celebrate the 40th anniversary. A video of families whose children have undergone surgery since 2009, including some children as … Read More

School students are watching mock operations, testing surgical skills and watching a patient recovered from a motorbike crash at a special event in Hull today. Year 8 students from Withernsea High, Headlands School in Bridlington and South Hunsley were invited to attend “A Day in the Life of the NHS” to learn about the wide variety of health careers on … Read More

A porter has won a prestigious award from a radio station after coming to the rescue of a patient in agony. Martyn Morris scooped top prize for Best Customer Service in the Viking FM awards for helping a patient rushed to Hull Royal Infirmary. The patient was suffering post-operative complications and his partner drove him to Hull Royal after learning … Read More

A consultant who cared for Hull and East Yorkshire’s sick and premature babies for a quarter of a century has retired. Dr Peter Pairaudeau, a consultant neonatologist, has just retired from Hull Women and Children’s Hospital after dedicating his career to helping seriously ill new-borns, babies and children. Joining what was to become Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in … Read More