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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.

People are advised to stay home should they get Norovirus this winter as South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust launches its #DontSpreadTheDread campaign. Norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug, is highly contagious and the trust is reminding people not to visit hospitals,  GP surgeries or  care homes until they have been symptom free for 48 hours.

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.

Researchers from The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough are appealing for families of children born prematurely, or with conditions such as asthma, diabetes, Down’s syndrome and cerebral palsy, to take part in a national study. James Cook is participating in the University of Oxford’s ARCHIE study, which is looking at whether early antibiotic treatment may prevent these ‘at risk’ children from becoming more unwell when they get flu. The research is funded by the National Institute of Health Research.

How would you like to join us in The Potting Shed, Northallerton on 9 December for Christmas afternoon tea?

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.

Veteran midwife Anne Court has retired after 40 years of helping hundreds of babies into the world at the Friarage Hospital and across the local community.