The vascular birthmark clinic at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust now has a second ultrasound machine thanks to the efforts of a young fundraiser and the support of a national charity.
Patients’ involvement in a pioneering cancer trial at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have led to ‘practice changing’ results about how mesothelioma will be treated in the future.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reached an important milestone by recruiting their 100th patient to a leading-edge cancer trial known as the
Prostate Advances in Comparative Evidence (PACE) trial and is the second highest recruiter in the country.
Further drop-in events about the development of a long term, sustainable plan for the Friarage Hospital will be held in November and December 2017.
A number of drop-in events about the development of a long term, sustainable plan for the Friarage Hospital will be held next week, starting on Monday (6 November 2017) in Catterick Garrison, closely followed by Stokesley and Northallerton.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will hold the third in a series of drop-in events about the development of a long term, sustainable plan for the Friarage Hospital will be held in Richmond on Saturday (21 October) from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Patients and staff will be raising a cup to mark the start of building work on The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre at the Friarage Hospital on 29 September 2017 as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The annual Macmillan Cancer Support charity event this year coincides with construction getting underway on the new multi-million pound cancer centre at the hospital, which is being funded by local philanthropist Sir Robert Ogden, Macmillan and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Taking pride of place on the walls at The James Cook University Hospital are three photographs of people who have transformed the lives of strangers. The emotive images are a tribute to patients who have selflessly donated organs to enable others to have life-saving transplants when there was nothing more could be done to save their own lives.
The heart team at The James Cook University Hospital has reached an exciting milestone after successfully carrying out one of its most advanced procedures on more than 500 patients. TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) is an advanced procedure in which a team of specially trained consultants replace a narrowed heart valve without the need for open heart surgery.
Teesside patients with long term lung conditions can now benefit from a specialist hydrotherapy rehabilitation programme – believed to be one of the first in the UK. The water-based sessions at The James Cook University Hospital and Redcar Primary Care Hospital are designed for respiratory patients with conditions such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) who require rehabilitation but struggle with gym-based exercises because of joint problems.