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More than 130 people have volunteered to help South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust during the coronavirus pandemic. The volunteers, who signed up through the trust’s therapeutic support programme, have been providing valuable support to patients and staff across the trust’s sites as well as promoting positive engagement and contributing to a positive hospital experience for everyone.
Training provider Learning Curve Group (LCG), has donated 29 digital tablets and PPE to South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to support staff and patients during to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Joel Dunning usually spends his days working in the cardiothoracic surgery at The James Cook University Hospital, but after a lot of his surgery had been delayed or diverted due to the virus he decided to step out of the theatre and onto the cardiothoracic intensive care unit.
Consultant radiologist Richard Hartley from The James Cook University Hospital has helped raise more than £2,000 for South Tees Hospitals Charity by shaving off his beard for the first time in 40 years!
Staff and students at a local school have designed, created and donated hundreds of visors to help protect frontline workers.
Sedgefield Community College have manufactured around 600 face protection masks out of materials students would have otherwise used for their summer term projects.
When Alan Brown suffered chest pain his family didn’t delay in seeking medical help. The 55-year-old had to undergo major heart surgery that same night but was home four days later thanks to his rapid diagnosis and treatment.
More than 90 student nurses have volunteered to start work on hospital wards before completing their studies to help South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its campaign against COVID-19.
Our Macmillan Information Centre teams are currently working from home offering emotional support, a listening ear and financial support.
A James Cook University Hospital midwife has been shortlisted for a national nursing award. Alison Anderson, who started working for the trust after she graduated from Teesside University last year, has been shortlisted as Student Midwife of the Year in the Student Nursing Times Awards 2020.
Staff broke into a spontaneous round of applause when Friarage nurse Helen Sharpe was discharged from James Cook’s intensive care unit on Good Friday. Helen, who was one of critical care’s first COVID positive patients, spent 21 days on the unit.