Every year the trust’s lung cancer nurses organise a charity ball to raise money for the service – and they are calling on your support again this time! Whether you’re staff, a patient or someone who wants to support a very worthy cause – you are all invited! Over the last four years the team […]

A member of staff has backed a campaign to encourage people to move more after getting fitter herself and climbing a famous mountain. Claire Bainbridge, a clerical officer in pathology, has made changes over the last few months to be more active.   To set herself a target, she signed up to a challenge to […]

A woman who has been treated for breast cancer has added another £450 to the thousands of pounds she has raised for breast care at the trust over the last 12 years. Janet Bilton and her husband Eric visited outpatients at the University Hospital of Hartlepool to visit consultant Pud Bhaskar and the team. Janet […]

A team from North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have raised some invaluable charitable funds for their department and enjoyed some excellent team building work in the process. The staff from the Haematology department were out on the water in August at the Tees Water Barrage, after being sponsored to brave the river, with […]

With just a month to go until the Great North Run, Jamie has been busy pounding the streets as he gets prepared. He’s not only taking on this 13.1 mile challenge to get fitter and feel better but he is also raising money for the trust’s charitable fund. All money raised will go back into […]

Carole Thornton, Linda Cruickshank, Alison Aston, Karen McIntosh, Sandra Dobson, Joan Veart and Val Kitching helped raise £600 for breast care across North Tees and Hartlepool hospitals. They walked from Hartlepool Marina to the Clock Tower at Seaton Carew and back again – collecting donations along the way. They did a similar walk last year and […]

FOR the second year in succession, a fire station was turned into the venue for an afternoon tea party to help raise money for cancer care. And this year the event at Peterlee Fire Station helped raise even more than last year – with the grand total reaching more than £3,300 for the chemotherapy unit […]

THE family and friends of a young girl with diabetes have raised funds to help other patients like her. Lilia Keers, who is five, is being treated for type 1 diabetes in the children’s outpatients department at the University Hospital of Hartlepool after being diagnosed last September. The family wanted to show their thanks for […]

  The garden at the University Hospital of North Tees used to be an unused open space in one of the courtyard areas.   That’s until members of the invoice finance team at Siemens Financial Services heard about it. The team offered to fund new equipment and plants as well as free up their own […]

Students from Hartlepool College of Further Education have helped hundreds patients at University Hospital of North Tees by volunteering as part of their level two diploma in Health and Early Years Care. Thirteen students participated in a five-month programme which included wrapping over five hundred Christmas presents for patients in hospital on Christmas Day, managing […]