Consultant surgeon Madan Jha gave a Stockton audience a glimpse of the leading edge surgical techniques happening right now in Middlesbrough. Madan, who was appointed to the trust to establish a laparoscopic or key hole bowel surgery service, was invited to give a talk to Café Scientifique Stockton on Tees which meets monthly at Stockton’s Arc art centre.
Staff and patients alike got into the Christmas spirit as they sang carols and other festive classics in the atrium of The James Cook University Hospital at the start of Christmas Week. The event made for an uplifting morning, with members of the Chaplaincy team leading the singing as well as members of a trust staff choir that will begin meeting after work again from January.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is carrying out a survey to find out what children, young people and their parents think about the care received when they were in hospital. The Trust will use the results of the survey to highlight areas where its hospitals perform well and to identify the areas where they need to improve.
Mums-to-be and new mums at The James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital will now be able to instantly find out more information about the hospital’s services and get health advice direct from the hospital by way of a new, free mobile app.
We are currently experiencing an intermittent fault with the main switchboard number at The James Cook University Hospital, which is 01642 850850. You can still reach the hospital by calling The Friarage on 01609 779911 and asking to be transferred to The James Cook University Hospital.
The chest X-ray pilot has been developed as a partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Middlesbrough Council, South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group and the Tees Valley Public Health Shared Service. It is available at The James Cook University Hospital and the One Life Centre on Linthorpe Road.The scheme remains at the pilot stage but makes it easier for people with symptoms of poor lung health to get help and treatment.
An initial 150 patients per year are set to benefit from a new £95,000 investment in new lung surgery services at The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. New specialist imaging equipment, increased theatre capacity for lung surgery and outpatient clinics will now be provided at the North Yorkshire hospital, benefitting patients from across Hambleton and Richmondshire and further afield, who currently face a long journey to The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
A lifesaving Major Trauma Centre team is urging people across Teesside and North Yorkshire to celebrate Halloween and Bonfire Night safely this year. Julie Suckling, service manager for urgent and emergency care at the region’s busiest A&E, The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, says A&E staff don’t want to see people having their festivities spoiled as a result of avoidable injury.
Cardiologists at Teesside’s biggest hospital have been praised for their role in a major international study looking at the effectiveness of different treatments for patients with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD).
The cardiothoracic team, led by Dr Mark de Belder at The James Cook University Hospital, were praised by New York University-based leaders of the ISCHEMIA trial, a major international, multicentre randomised trial researching the best way to manage the condition.
A successful project to provide intravenous (IV) antibiotics to patients with a long-term lung condition in their own homes is set to benefit dozens of others with different health conditions. The cutting-edge service improvement enterprise looked at how providing IV antibiotic therapy to patients in their own homes rather than as inpatients in hospital could improve both the patient experience and also reduce costs.