Plea for Dewsbury tea volunteers
Dewsbury and District Hospital is desperately searching for volunteers to serve-up some tea and empathy at its two cafés.
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Director role for Wakefield man Terry Moran
It’s a case of New Year, new challenge, for a former top civil servant – who has just become a Non-Executive Director of The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Junior doctors' strike
The planned 48 hour strike by junior doctors commenced at 8am today (Wednesday 6 April 2016) and will continue until 8am on Friday 8 April 2016.
We have contacted all patients whose appointments could be affected.
First new ground breaking heart defibrillator fitted
A new state of the art, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator has recently been fitted to a patient at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. The totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator, called the ‘S-ICD System’, will now be recommended to patients at risk of a sudden cardiac arrest.
Kindness in the aire
Radio Aire listeners were one of the many groups of people opening their hearts to those spending Christmas in hospital.
Through their Cash for Kids campaign, they donated a staggering 400 presents to Dewsbury and District Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department – to distribute to children attending there.
Hospital keeps mum - and family - involved in the birthing process
Pontefract Hospital is amongst the best in Britain at keeping women and their partners fully involved during labour and care – says a new national study.
Hark! The Pinderfields angels sing
Staff at Pinderfields Hospital are donning 1930’s nurse’s uniforms to sing favourite carols and remind dementia patients of Happy Christmas’ past.
Tour de Yorkshire comes to mid Yorks
On Saturday 30 April 2016 Stage 2 of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race is coming through Mid Yorkshire.
Trust staff awarded title Queen’s Nurse
Two community nurses at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been awarded the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse (QN) by community nursing charity The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
Read all about it: Newspaper man brings round hope
Volunteer Harvey Pedley is delivering news of the outside world to bedbound patients at Pinderfields – after becoming the new hospital’s first-ever paper lad.