Exactly 10 years to the day since being diagnosed with breast cancer – a woman from Hartlepool returned to the same hospital where she was told the news to make a special donation. Claire Addison was told she had cancer after a visit to the breast unit at the University Hospital of Hartlepool on 4 […]

A SPECIAL room has opened in a hospital’s emergency care department to provide a calming space for relatives of young patients – after a charity offered its support. The children and young people’s emergency care service at the University Hospital of North Tees is opening a room for families to use in difficult circumstances. This […]

Meet Dr Vishal Tripathi – an ex-cricket player who gave up his professional career in sport to become a doctor. Now a junior doctor at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton-on-Tees, 33-year-old Vishal from Sunderland was brought up around the sport and has fond childhood memories of watching his dad play cricket. After […]

Staff at a Teesside NHS trust are appealing to patients to return their crutches following a Trust shortage. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is asking patients who have been given crutches to bring them back once they are no longer needed. Around 10 to 15 pairs are given to patients every day from […]

A new book featuring poetry from Teesside NHS staff about the pandemic has now been published. The Creative Writing Handbook for Healthcare Workers features moving poetry from 19 members of staff at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, all about the struggles of working through the COVID-19 pandemic The book is the result of […]

It was 20 years ago when Cheryl Camilleri first started as a health support worker at the University Hospital of North Tees. Now, as ward matron of the orthopaedic unit, she is a highly experienced and respected leader of her team. And she has not looked back – since being inspired by that first shift […]

Work is well underway on a new respiratory support unit at the University Hospital of North Tees. The new £2.5 million unit, based in the hospital’s main tower block, will replace one of the two existing respiratory wards and provides a greatly improved environment to care for patients. The new unit, due to open to […]

Mums-to-be are being advised that North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is taking part in a clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of different tests to identify Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in pregnancy. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common bacteria which usually lives in the body and causes no harm. However, women who […]

A physiotherapist based at a Teesside health trust has triumphed at a national NHS awards ceremony after he created a free app aimed at training physiotherapy staff redeployed during COVID-19. Dr Iain Loughran, a musculoskeletal physiotherapist at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, created ONCALLbuddy alongside Stephanie Mansell, a consultant respiratory physiotherapist at the […]

A research study in Hartlepool into a COVID-19 vaccine has been praised by volunteers involved – in the same week it comes a step closer to being approved for use. The trial at the University Hospital of Hartlepool is one of many sites across the country the Novavax study is running from. This week, Novavax […]