Better Record Sharing Improves Healthcare For Humberside Patients

Better Record Sharing Improves Healthcare For Humberside Patients
March 4, 2019

Patients across the Humber are benefitting from more joined-up healthcare. This is thanks to the rollout of a new initiative to share information between NHS providers.

Healthcare professionals can now see up-to-date information about their patients. They can also even see this information if they’ve been treated somewhere else.

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Mental Health Care Services For Young People Take A Big Step Forward

HULL : Triumphant Team Wins General Practice Award
December 12, 2016

The next stage in the development of a new mental health service for young people in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire takes a major step forward as organisations with specialist mental health care experience are now able to bid to provide this vital new service.

The service will consist of general adolescent beds with co-located psychiatric intensive care beds (11 beds in total) to serve young people living in the locality.

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MP Urges Yorkshrie Ambulance To Reconsider Changes

September 1, 2011

“Lives at risk” says MP, as he urges Yorkshire Ambulance Service to reconsider changes to first aid training. Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, is concerned that changes to local first aid training may put lives at risk, especially in rural areas. Yorkshire Ambulance Service has reduced Community First Responders training from monthly two-hour sessions to bi-monthly training sessions. Community First Responders are unpaid volunteers who are trained to…

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East Yorkshire Dental Studios

July 18, 2011

East Yorkshire Dental Studios are a family-run business based at Edward House, Railway Street, Beverley. Husband and wife dentists Claire and Jason Spence run the business, which also employs four other dentists in Beverley and in their other practice in Brough. The couple, who have two sons Harry and William, believe in the traditional values we all used to appreciate but which are becoming more and more uncommon. They say:…

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Sharon Mays Leaves NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Board

July 1, 2011

NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Chairman Karen Knapton has paid tribute to outgoing Non Executive Director Sharon Mays who leaves the NHS East Riding Board to take up a new position on the Humber NHS Foundation Trust (FT) Board from today, 1 July 2011. Sharon has a background in private legal practice, specialising in real estate, and has held the role of a Non-Executive Director at NHS East Riding of…

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Heads of New PCT Cluster for Humber Announced

March 15, 2011

The Chief Executive Designate and Chair Designate of a new regional cluster of NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have been announced. In July 2010, the Health White Paper, ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ outlined plans to transfer NHS commissioning responsibilities from PCTs to groups of general practitioners. Until the transition to GP consortia in 2013 is complete, PCTs have been directed to pool resources under new cluster working arrangements,…

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Beverley Leisure Centre to Hold Free Health Checks

February 15, 2011

Beverley Leisure Complex and East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Sport and Play Development Service are offering free health checks on Wednesday, 23 February. The checks will be available at the centre from 9.30-11.30am, with members of staff also on hand to discuss memberships and exercise programmes to help people keep fit and healthy. For further information contact Stuart Claridge, on (01482) 392534 or email stuart.claridge@eastriding.gov.uk

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Do you suffer from SAD?

January 4, 2011

With the cold snap of winter upon us and the miserable weather that comes with it, a lot of people will start to feel personal changes within. The changes are largely inexplicable and confusing. How many of the following symptoms do you recognise in yourself? Depression Sleep Problems Lethargy Over Eating Loss of Concentration Social Problems Anxiety Loss of Libido Mood Changes There is a strong chance that you are…

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Health Service Continuity in Light of the Adverse Weather

December 2, 2010

Health service continuity in light of the adverse weather Due to the severe weather conditions, a number of local health services have been affected and/or are running a limited service. ·         Community services In Hull and the East Riding, community services (including district nursing, intermediate care and health visiting) will be prioritising patients with urgent care needs. Routine, non-urgent visits and clinics will not be taking place. ·         Health centres…

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Beverley Hypnotherapist Goes Global

November 24, 2010

Following a business trip to New York where she spoke at an obesity conference and delivered training for her weight-loss system which incorporates the Virtual Gastric Band, UK Clinical Hypnotherapist Sheila Granger from Beverley, has returned to interest from the other side of the world. Having attracted attention in the UK with her claims to help fight the obesity epidemic via her revolutionary technique, Sheila was asked by a New…

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Visiting Your Dentist Could Save Your Life

November 9, 2010

Perfect 32 is helping to raise awareness of Mouth Cancer Action Month in East Yorkshire by offering FREE MOUTH CANCER SCREENING on Monday, November 29 running from 8am – 7pm using an advanced oral cancer screening system called The Velscope. The practice will also be giving away specially designed information packs highlighting the warning signs and prevention of mouth cancer. In the UK mouth cancer is diagnosed in more than…

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The People Behind The New Community Hospital

October 8, 2010

Meet the team behind the new Community Hospital for the East Riding at Swinemoor Lane, Beverley. The recent open day at Beverley Westwood Hospital gave local residents, groups and hospital staff a chance to view the building materials for the new Hospital, including the living green roof. Representatives from NHS East Riding of Yorkshire and developer Interserve Health were on hand to answer questions about the construction programme. Pre-construction and…

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‘Exceptional Nurse’ Mary Wilson voted East Riding’s NHS Star

October 7, 2010

Advanced Practitioner Mary Wilson has scooped the public award for her outstanding care for patients in the East Riding of Yorkshire NHS Star Awards. Pocklington patient Sue Anthony nominated Mary for the award saying: “If I had to sum up Mary in a few words they would be that she is gentle, supportive, thorough, reliable, helpful and professional.  She always gives at the highest possible level of care and is…

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