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Health leaders in the region are warning that NHS staff are facing increasing incidents of abuse from the public as the healthcare system braces itself for the very busy winter period.

The James Cook University Hospital Kidney Unit Appeal has smashed its £500,000 target. Patients, renal unit staff and the local community pulled out all the stops to raise the funds in less than 12 months, ensuring kidney patients can receive their outstanding care in a first class facility for years to come.

A Middlesbrough couple have dedicated their time to helping families on the neonatal unit at The James Cook University Hospital after experiencing the heartbreak of saying goodbye to their three babies.

Patients across Teesside and North Yorkshire are being asked to return any walking frames, crutches and walking sticks that they no longer need.

Starlight, the national charity dedicated to the protection of play for seriously ill children has today, on the first day of National Play in Hospital Week 2021 honoured the resilience and dedication of play specialists who are changing the experience seriously ill children have in hospital. 

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s specialist palliative care team is once again offering people the opportunity to pay tribute to their loved ones, or friends, who died within their hospitals by selling personalised ‘love baubles’.

As part of Free Wills Month, this October Our Hospitals Charity has teamed up with Farewill to offer 60 free wills, available on a first-come, first-served basis.

62-year-old Patrick Burton was delighted to be named the lucky winner of The James University Hospital’s Kidney Unit Appeal car raffle, which is part of a fundraising effort aiming to raise £500,000 to create a bright, modern and welcoming facility for the hospital’s patients.

Building work is underway on a new diagnostic hub at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. The new hub, located on the hospital’s former ward 15, will provide state-of-the-art facilities for patients undergoing urology and endoscopy procedures when it opens in the summer of 2022.

Philip Smith returns home three days after having a lifesaving quadruple bypass at The James Cook University Hospital.