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Children at The James Cook Hospital can enjoy a panto without even leaving their beds on Saturday. Newcastle Theatre Royal’s festive show, Aladdin, is set to be beamed for free to all 8,500 hospital bed TV screens in the region giving thousands of patients the chance to watch the show.

Staff in the accident and emergency departments at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and their colleagues at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton have today received a welcome boost. Results from the latest Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) survey on people’s experiences of accident and emergency services show the teams in a very favourable light.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is urging hospital visitors to ‘Say NO to NOrovirus’ this winter. Better known as the winter vomiting bug, norovirus is the most common stomach bug in the UK, affecting people of all ages.

Temporary changes have been made to the opening times of the urgent care centre at East Cleveland Primary Care Hospital. Due to staffing pressures, the centre is now open between 9am and 5pm – Monday to Friday – and 8am to 8pm on weekends/bank holidays, instead of the usual round-the-clock service.

Local registered charity, Free from Pain, have donated funds to enable the women and children’s division at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough to buy 3D distraction equipment for use on the children’s wards.

Derek Toase has returned from a poignant trip to Uganda where he helped to build a home for orphaned and vulnerable children. The two-week expedition was a rewarding but emotional one for the father-of-three, as his late wife Margaret – a long-standing union member and former staffside chairman of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – was the person who signed him up!

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s communications team is celebrating after scooping two titles at the Association of Healthcare Communications and Marketing Awards 2012. Head of communications Amanda Marksby was named communicator of the year beating tough competition from NHS colleagues from right across the country.

Families are invited to join in the festive fun at Redcar Primary Care Hospital’s Christmas charity event. The Christmas celebration takes place at the hospital in West Dyke Road, Redcar, on Friday 14 December from 5pm to 7pm and will feature real reindeer, a local school choir, the Salvation Army Band and Santa’s grotto.

Venues across Redcar and Cleveland are being encouraged to do their bit to welcome breastfeeding mums. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s infant feeding team has teamed up with Redcar and Cleveland Council to launch a Breastfeeding Welcome scheme.

Dave Speight is a busy man. He is sales director, who works long hours, many of them on the road, and only visits his GP when he knows he’s ‘unwell’. But Dave received ‘a wake-up call’ after the company arranged a free healthy heart check run by the local NHS cardiovascular screening service.