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FIVE days of Junior Doctors strikes proposed for the beginning of October have now been suspended. The strikes had been due to take place on October 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11.

Join our Macmillan volunteers at The James Cook University Hospital for a cup of coffee in the atrium near to the hospital’s south entrance from 10am to 2pm.

Cricket legend Sir Ian Botham opened the Friarage Hospital’s new simulation suite which will help train the doctors and nurses of the future.

Over the last five years 100 patients have helped turn an end into a beginning at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by becoming an organ donor after their death. The figures have been released by NHS Blood and Transplant to mark Organ Donation Week (5 – 11 September).

Teesside comedy favourite Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown paid a visit to The James Cook University Hospital to donate £5,000 raised from the proceeds of merchandise sales. It was a welcome return for Chubby, who has made previous generous gifts to the hospital’s ‘Star fund’ which helps pay for advancements in radiotherapy and oncology for cancer patients […]

During the Bank Holiday weekend many healthcare services in our area will be closed for three days. Are you prepared?

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Target Ovarian Cancer is coming to Middlesbrough for an event to help patients and carers affected by ovarian cancer. Trust staff are supporting the event and are trying to encourage as many patients as possible to attend the event at the Riverside stadium on 22 September, 10am to 4.30pm.

Cancer survivor Trevor Rand is taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge on Saturday 17 September to raise funds for a hospital charity.

Patients and visitors could be forgiven for thinking the Short Stay Paediatric Assessment Unit (SSPAU) resembled more of a toy shop than a treatment area in a hospital.