East Riding of Yorkshire Council is proud to support the thousands of smokers who this year will choose to stop smoking; boldly beginning a life without cigarettes.
Smoking rates may be declining but around 10 million people in the UK still smoke, and around 100,000 die each year from smoking-related causes.
The future of urgent care services in the East Riding of Yorkshire have today been confirmed, with three urgent care centres open 365 days per year set to be introduced in Beverley, Bridlington and Goole, replacing the current minor injury units across the region.
The decision was also made to create an integrated community and intensive rehabilitation centre in Beverley, which will be supported by Time to Think beds, meaning current community hospital beds in Bridlington and Withernsea will close. A number of Time to Think beds will be located in Holderness and Bridlington.
A final decision on the future of urgent care services in the East Riding of Yorkshire are due to be made next week, following a twelve week public consultation which finished in January.
These decisions will be made by the NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Governing Body, when they meet in public on Tuesday 21 March.
Between 2005 and 2014, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) claimed the lives of 266 babies in the Yorkshire and Humber regions.
Health professionals in Hull are urging parents to make themselves aware of safe sleeping practices.
Humber NHS Foundation Trust is inviting health professionals, those working in education along with members of the public to attend the launch of a new CAMHS eating disorders service on Wednesday 1 March.
The drop-in event will run from 10.30am – 5pm at Beverley Racecourse and will provide people with an opportunity to find out more about the service along with information from a range of associated services and specialities including paediatric inpatients and dietetics. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about how to refer into the service and the chance to meet the team.
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, working with a number of partner organisations including Health Education England (Yorkshire and Humber) and Hull University, is looking to recruit two people.
They will join the Early Clinical Leadership Initiative starting from January 2017.
As we approach mid-January, NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is urging local residents to have their say on the future of urgent care services before the consultation closes on 17 January 2017.
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.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart will visit the NHS Humber Foundation Trust this Friday 9 December.
Graham will meet with the Chief Executive of the Trust, Michele Moran, and take a tour of the facilities at Castle Hill Hospital.
With the winter nights drawing in, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s associate director of public health is urging people who are eligible for the free flu vaccination to take up the offer.
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has today had their plans approved to start a 12 week formal public consultation on proposed changes to urgent care services.
A campaign aimed at reducing unnecessary medicine waste launches on 3 October 2016 across East Riding of Yorkshire GPs and community pharmacies.
The work being done to promote healthy pregnancy and infant breast feeding in the East Riding is to be the key focus for the area’s Health and Wellbeing Board.
A new website has been launched by Humber NHS Foundation Trust that aims to help people understand more about the services available to young people in the region
Just about everyone has heard about diabetes with 3.5 million people diagnosed in the UK and a further 549,000 who have the condition but don’t yet know it.
During June and July NHS England will be inviting young people and their families from Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire
Every Week 14 people from East Riding area discover they have cancer caused by smoking.
Every week eight people from East Riding area discover they have cancer caused by smoking.