To improve and enhance bus services within the city, Hull City Council’s Cabinet has approved proposals for its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) for 2024/2025.
Through the Hull Bus Alliance, the council will work with local bus operators, Stagecoach and East Yorkshire Buses, to improve bus frequency, pilot new routes, and introduce fare discounts so that bus passenger numbers will grow, traffic congestion will be reduced, and air quality will improve.
Christmas is back with a charity appeal to add some magic to the holidays for the sickest children and older patients at the hospital!
In order to spread festive cheer to patients at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, WISHH invites members of the community and local businesses to get involved.
Raymond ‘Ray’ Grange, the former Tourism Officer for Beverley and a well-known local character, sadly passed away on Thursday 20 January at Hull Royal Infirmary with his children by his side after a very short and very rapid decline in his health.
Local clinical leaders are praising the phenomenal local vaccine effort with 40,000 people in Hull and East Riding receiving their booster vaccination in the last 10 days.
The NHS is prioritising bookings for boosters and is urging people to book an appointment to guarantee their jab – as it aims to offer every eligible adult their booster dose by the end of December 2021.
A charity appeal to ensure hospital patients could still enjoy Christmas despite the Covid pandemic is being repeated this year after being billed as a roaring success in 2020.
Generous members of the Hull and East Riding community rallied together to support the WISHH National Elf Service Appeal, which ensured Covid-safe gifts could be bought for babies, children and the elderly spending time in hospital over Christmas.
Doctors, nurses and other NHS staff are going to be part of history in the making, whilst supporting our new ‘By Your Side’ Appeal, as they take part in the World’s Largest Marathon, involving 100,000 people globally.
An incredible team of 50 staff working in departments such as neurosurgery, cardiology, ophthalmology, physiotherapy, security, administration, paediatrics, and theatres at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, have dedicated months of training to for the Virtual London Marathon.
Hull Hospitals are here, by your side when you need them, from the delivery of exceptional care to supporting families and loved ones.
They are a team we can truly depend on when we need them most. Many of us will have our own story to tell on how hospital staff have touched our lives and gone above and beyond to make a difference.
A hospital in Yorkshire has become the first in the country to support patient care by bringing poetry, stories and chat to the bedside in a partnership that has its roots in the UK City of Culture programme.
Library Link has completed a pilot scheme with volunteers from Hull and East Yorkshire reading poems and short stories to patients in wards and waiting rooms at Hull Royal Infirmary and is now gearing up to return post-Covid.
WISHH, the official charity of Hull Hospitals is urging people across Hull and East Yorkshire to join the nation’s biggest tea break on the 5th July to raise funds for the incredible people in our NHS who’ve done so much to help everyone get through the pandemic.
A hospital team who spend their days and nights dealing with the urgent and unexpected have had their break area transformed thanks to charitable donations.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s emergency care team, whose work is currently the subject of Channel 5 series A&E After Dark, are more used to designing care plans than staff rooms.
Local children’s nurses are asking kind-hearted donors to swap chocolate eggs for arts and crafts this Easter in a special charity appeal.
Every year, the children’s wards at Hull Royal Infirmary would normally be inundated with offers of chocolate treats for youngsters spending time in hospital.
Lockdown and winter have seen some grey days, so why not add a splash of colour and sparkle to your living room, by joining the Mayor of Beverley’s virtual cabaret evening on Friday 12th February.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has welcomed the news that Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham, is to benefit from £5,925,000.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which is responsible for Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital have to look at Christmas a little differently this year.
Traditionally, generous members of our community, businesses and sporting teams deliver an astonishing amount of Christmas gifts for the areas sickest children the hospitals care for.
