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A new fundraising initiative will take place over Captain Tom’s birthday weekend of Friday 30 April to Bank Holiday Monday 3 May to celebrate his life and amazing achievements. Captain Tom 100 invites people all over the world to take on a challenge based around the number 100 to raise funds for charity – and South Tees Hospitals Charity is proud to be inviting its supporters to take part.

After spending nine weeks in a hospital bed, Linda Buckworth is delighted to have her freedom back – and it’s all thanks to a special portable device that helps inflate her collapsed lung. The 37-year-old is excited to be heading home this week after becoming the first patient at The James Cook University Hospital – and one of the first in the country – to be discharged with a portable thoracic suction unit.

Redcar Urgent Treatment Centre will revert back to its usual opening times of 8am to 9.30pm from Tuesday 6 April. The urgent treatment centre (UTC) at Redcar Primary Care Hospital extended its opening hours to 11.30pm over the winter months to provide additional support to urgent care teams as part of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

NHS foundation trusts across the North East are working together to protect the mental health of frontline staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 20 March 2020 more than 150 patients at The James Cook University Hospital have been recruited to the one of the world’s most important trials into new critical care treatments for COVID-19.

How will you be celebrating your freedom once lockdown is over? How about jumping out of a plane for The James Cook University Hospital Kidney Unit Appeal?

A new renal unit has officially opened its doors at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.

Patients suffering with longterm symptoms of coronavirus can now access a specialist service provided by South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The trust has set up a long COVID clinic to take referrals from GP practices and secondary care for people experiencing “brain fog”, anxiety, depression, breathlessness, fatigue and other debilitating symptoms.

Urgent care teams across the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire are appealing to the public to only attend A&E or call 999 if they have serious or life-threatening emergencies.

The James Cook University Hospital is set to open a new emergency department for children and young people. Work has already started on the purpose-built facility which will be situated next to the Middlesbrough hospital’s main emergency department with its own separate entrance.