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A new virtual reality app is enabling young patients to ‘explore’ hospital corridors, wards and theatres before they attend for surgery. Using a smart phone app, children can trigger animated healthcare characters to tell them about what they do and what happens on the day of their surgery.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had its lowest ever level of trust apportioned Clostridium difficile last year. A total of 41 trust apportioned cases of Clostridium difficile were recorded in 2018/19 compared to 48 the previous year – and safely below its annual target of no more than 54.

Radio 1’s Big Weekend is almost here. And with that in mind, we are advising patients and visitors to allow extra time if you are visiting James Cook during the event and to plan how you will get there if you are using public transport.

Nursing and midwifery heroes were honoured at the 16th annual Nightingale Awards for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. here’s who won what.

The training given to doctors working at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been praised by the General Medical Council (GMC) in its regional review of sites across the North East.

Flu champions at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are celebrating after vaccinating 80.4% of frontline healthcare staff this year – a trust record!

A doctor and two nurses from South Tees were part of a recent trip to the Battambang Referral Hospital with a charity that was set up on Teesside. Transform Healthcare Cambodia was set up to respond to the training needs of medical and nursing colleagues in Cambodia. In the late 1970s Cambodia suffered under the Pol Pot regime where many doctors and educators were either killed or put to work on the land. Since that time the country has been rebuilding its health services.

The James Cook University Hospital has been named as an international flagship site for a specialist heart procedure which replaces narrowed heart valves without the need for open heart surgery. TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) is a minimally invasive heart valve replacement procedure that provides an alternative to open heart surgery for higher risk patients. The Middlesbrough team is one of only two in the country – and one of only a handful in Europe – to be awarded Benchmark status by the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation in Vancouver.

For as long as he can remember Daniel Anczarski was told the abnormal growth on his neck was incurable – experts said it was too dangerous to even attempt to remove it as there was a risk he could bleed to death. But two specialist consultants at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have teamed up to successfully treat the vascular malformation birthmark with a series of carefully administered injections which have delivered “miraculous” and life-saving results.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in the UK to use a new implantable device for patients who suffer from back pain. Consultant in pain management, Dr Ashish Gulve implanted the ReActiv8® device at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.