A health trust is asking people to take a lateral flow test before visiting its hospitals – as it steps up measures to curb rising COVID admissions. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust will need visitors to take a test and provide evidence of a negative result. This will be for any visitors to […]

A new COVID-19 vaccine trialled by NHS staff in Hartlepool has been conditionally approved for use – to help fight rising cases and an increasing need to protect more people. The national Novavax vaccine study, trialled at the University Hospital of Hartlepool, has been authorised by the European Regulator (EMA) and the World Health Organisation. […]

A town’s hospital and power station have collected a haul of goods for their local foodbank – as they come together for people most in need in their community this Christmas. Staff at the University Hospital of Hartlepool and Hartlepool Power Station have made a joint collection to give back to deprived people in the […]

A staff member from North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has been spreading some festive cheer to raise funds for charity, after the loss of a beloved colleague.   Christmas cracker Carol Wallace, who works as a health care assistant in the antenatal day assessment unit at the University Hospital of North Tees, was […]

Our staff responded with enormous kindness to our annual Christmas foodbank and toy appeal. Hundreds of pounds worth of food and toiletries have been donated to the foodbanks in Stockton, Hartlepool and Billingham, while the Hartlepool and Stockton branches of the Salvation Army have both received van loads of toys. The appeal was co-ordinated by […]

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is saying an extra thank you to Bloodrun Emergency Voluntary Service for its kind donation of toys to children in hospital over Christmas. The volunteer bikers are a firm part of the Trust family, providing a much-appreciated free blood courier service with its ‘blood bikes’ and ‘blood cars’ […]

The University Hospital of Hartlepool is ending 2021 with a national accolade recognising its commitment to patient safety. The National Joint Register (NJR), which monitors the performance of hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder joint replacement operations to improve clinical outcomes, has awarded the hospital its Quality Data Provider certificate. Only hospitals that achieve the […]

Over 350 leaders from across the region met this week to demand reducing inequalities in health care for the communities they serve. Leaders met virtually at a North East and North Cumbria Health Inequalities Summit – the first of its kind for the region. The event welcomed a host of delegates who logged on to […]

Human rights lawyer and wife of the former Prime Minister Cherie Blair CBE, QC is just one of many people paying tribute to the breast unit at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Around a decade after the breast service was implemented, the dedicated breast unit at the […]

A blood donation has found its way home to Teesside after a Billingham-born woman made a donation more than 160 miles away. When 51-year-old data manager Michelle Medford, born and raised in Billingham, made her usual blood donation at her home in Crewe, she thought nothing of it. But she received a nice surprise when […]