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A fantastic day of music is planned for the bank holiday weekend in a North Yorkshire village to raise money for South Tees Hospitals Charity, which provides funds for the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.

A £1million ward revamp has significantly enhanced care for older patients at The James Cook University Hospital. The ward 11 refurbishment, which was overseen by a nurse-led team and involved extensive feedback from staff, patients and carers, was funded by the trust’s PFI contract.

A number of our community sites are being issued with new telephone numbers from 15 August 2019 including the main switchboard at Redcar Hospital. For technical reasons, we were unable to transfer the numbers previously used.

Two new state-of-the-art ultrasound scanners are set to reduce discomfort and speed up recovery for patients undergoing mastectomies and other surgical procedures at the Friarage Hospital. The scanners, which significantly reduce discomfort through the more accurate use of an anaesthetic technique called nerve blocking, have been provided thanks to a £42,000 investment from the Friends of the Friarage.

A Thirsk man is celebrating after winning a brand-new car as part of a charitable initiative that raised more than £28,000 for a local hospital charity. Andy Billany from Thirsk won the Peugeot 208, which was supplied by Simon Bailes Peugeot, in a raffle to raise funds for the Friends of the Friarage – a charity that supports Northallerton’s Friarage Hospital, part of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) Road Race World Championship 2019 will take place across Yorkshire over nine days, starting on Saturday 21 September and ending on Sunday 29 September.

Aspiring future doctors from around the UK have spent a week attending the ‘I Want to Be a Doctor’ course at a unique residential programme at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

Frailty ward rounds have been introduced at The James Cook University Hospital to help improve the care of older people following a traumatic injury.

Every day the tiny babies and families on our neonatal unit at The James Cook University Hospital face a marathon journey. But now the consultant neonatologists and advanced neonatal nurse practitioners who treat them are embarking on a half marathon of their own to raise vital funds.

We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with our telephone lines at The James Cook University Hospital. This is affecting some incoming external calls to our switchboard and Patient Connect.