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We want to reassure our patients and staff that these services on The James Cook University Hospital site remain open as normal. We have planned extensively and will be working hard to minimise any disruption. Patients should turn up for appointments as planned.

A comprehensive health and wellbeing programme for patients due to have major surgery has been made a reality thanks to a £75,000 grant from the Health Foundation. Believed to be the first collaborative venture of its kind, a team of doctors, physiotherapists, exercise scientists, public health specialists and Allied Healthcare Professionals will be working together in a bid to improve patient health and wellbeing prior to surgery.

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.

The Rhythm of the Night Charity Ball for South Cleveland Heart Fund takes place on Saturday 24 February 2018! Have you got tickets yet?

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.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to announce a key leadership appointment for the organisation with the confirmation of Alan Downey as its new Chairman.

Festive photo gallery round up from events held at South Tees Hospitals for Christmas 2017!

Patients are being urged to take their medication with them when they go into hospital. Statistics from The James Cook University Hospital reveal that as few as 35% of patients remember to pack any medication they are already using when they attend hospital.

A Whitby duo who starred on our TV screens in the blind auditions of The Voice have launched a festive CD to give something back to the Head and Neck Cancer Unit at The James Cook University Hospital.

David Lewis searched all over the country to find a surgeon who would operate on him when he was diagnosed with a tumour in his chest that was precariously difficult to reach. Then he was referred to Joel Dunning, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.