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Restart a Heart Day aims to instruct as many young people as possible in one day across Europe to deliver the skills of CPR should they be faced with a collapsed individual who is not breathing.

It’s very important that patients with planned operations, procedures or outpatient appointments should attend as normal unless they are specifically contacted by their hospital and asked not to. Only those patients contacted directly will have appointments delayed and these will be rearranged. Cancer diagnosis and treatment appointments will not be delayed.

NHS England Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has met with senior leaders of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to find out more about the transformation work taking place across the organisation to deliver real change for patients.

An extra date has been added to a series of engagement events to discuss the development of a long term, sustainable plan for the Friarage Hospital. Due to the popularity of the Thirsk event, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has organised a further meeting on Wednesday 20 December in Thirsk and Sowerby Town Hall from 4pm to 6pm.

A double donation of bladder scanning equipment has been made by the Friends of the Friarage to support local patients with the condition. The dedicated fundraisers, now in their Diamond Jubilee year, purchased the scanners – collectively worth £10,300 – for the community continence nursing team and the gynaecology department at the Northallerton hospital.

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.