We sadly have to announce that Mark Lowe, a porter with The James Cook University Hospital radiology team, passed away on Thursday 28 May after testing positive for COVID-19. Our CEO pays tribute here...
Staff broke into a spontaneous round of applause when
#FriarageHospital
nurse Helen Sharpe was discharged from
#JamesCookHospital
โs intensive care unit. Helen, who was one of critical careโs first COVID positive patients, spent 21 days on the unit
#InThisTogether
#NHSheroes
Our amazing COVID-19 vaccination team is ready to begin offering the vaccine to our patients aged over 80, care home staff and our own staff who are at higher risk from COVID-19, starting this morning.
#teesside
#northyorkshire
#middlesbrough
This morning, Margaret Dixon, from Redcar, was one of the first patients to given the life-saving
#COVID19
jab at
#JamesCookHospital
.
She said: โIโm looking forward to being free and being able to go to the shops, Iโve not been in one since March".
We want take a moment, right now,
to say two little words that we canโt say enough to our
@SouthTees
family of midwives, doctors, allied health professionals, scientific teams, administrative, support staff and volunteers: thank you โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
This
#InternationalWomensDay
we'd like to introduce you to our new consultant cardiac surgeon Danai Karamanou. Danai is the first female to hold this post in the 25 year history of the unit and today did her first surgery list at James Cook Hospital.
A Middlesbrough nurse practitioner has become the first in the world to be trained to insert a revolutionary implant which can reduce radiotherapy side effects by up to 70% in prostate cancer patients.
Weโre enormously pleased to be able to begin offering the vaccine to our patients aged over 80, care home staff and our own staff who are at higher risk from COVID-19 starting on Tuesday.
#teesside
#northyorkshire
Congratulations to our amazing
@southtees
anaesthetist colleagues Andy Maund (Royal Army Medical Corps) on his award of an MBE in the 2022 ๐๏ธNew Yearโs Honours, and Ollie Bartels ( Royal Army Medical Corps) who has been awarded an OBE
#jamescookhospital
#friaragehospital
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Paula Taggart, clinical quality lead for clinical support services, and Andrew Maund, anaesthetic consultant, were nominated by colleagues for their team work and co-ordination of the COVID vaccination hub.
They have gone above and beyond and shown impeccable leadership. ๐
This week a very special angel was presented to our porters at
#JamesCookHospital
in memory of our colleague Mark Lowe, who sadly passed away after testing positive for COVID-19.
#NHSAngels
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A report published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) today shows that South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is performing above the national average for its urgent and emergency care.
Consultant radiologist Richard Hartley from
#JamesCookHospital
has helped raise more than ยฃ2,000 for
@STeesCharity
by shaving off his beard for the first time in 40 years to support the fight against COVID-19! You can donate online at
Our ward 3 nursing team won a STAR Award for their incredible teamwork during the
#coronavirus
pandemic.
They have provided tireless, compassionate care for their patients with suspected / confirmed
#COVID19
throughout the pandemic.
Thank you๐๐
#SteesStaff
#JamesCookHospital
Congratulations to Sue Styan who retired today after 40 years of working for the NHS in Middlesbrough and 37 years as our anaesthetic department secretary.
A massive thank you to all the children who have sent us hundreds of drawings for our HOPE wall at
#JamesCookHospital
. We would really like to create HOPE walls in all of our hospitals and community sites.๐
#OurNHSPeople
#Steesstaff
#ThankYouNHS
Congratulations to our amazing
@SouthTees
anaesthetist colleagues Andy Maund (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps) on his award of an MBE in the 2022 ๐ New Yearโs Honours, and Ollie Bartels (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps) who has been awarded an OBE. ๐
Laboratory teams at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were amongst the first in the country to develop round the clock on-site testing for COVID-19.
Read more on our website:
#COVID19
#JamesCookHospital
A huge thank you to
@Boro
for dropping off lots of goodies to support the staff and patients on our children's wards at
#JamesCookHospital
this Christmas!
A huge and heartfelt thank you to all our doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, administrative and support staff who have once again gone the extra mile for our brilliant patients over Christmas and the New Year
#southtees2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the HSJ awards in the 'NHS Trust of the Year' category. Thank you to our staff and volunteers for their incredible contributions and to our patients for their constant support.
#HSJAwards
In these challenging times, itโs those small acts of kindness and events like
#ClapForOurCarers
that show how valued our health service is, and how grateful we are to those who work in it. ๐ โฅ๏ธ We couldn't be more proud โฅ๏ธ
#ThankYouNHS
#InThisTogether
We're delighted to report that the trust's specialist Macmillan thoracic nurses have won the
@NursingTimes
' Surgical Nursing Award. Last year the team introduced Macmillan community thoracic specialist nurses to minimise the amount of time patients have to spend in hospital.
Staff nurse Jessica Speight has been nominated to join chief nursing officer for England Ruth May and colleagues from across the country on the first national collective leadership council! Great work Jessica!
Our procurement team has secured and delivered 5.3 million items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). This includes over 600,000 pieces of PPE which the team sourced and distributed to neighbouring NHS organisations and care providers. ๐ฅ๐
We are trying to trace relatives of Leonard Hall who died on 27 March 2020 in James Cook Hospital. Leonard lived in the Middlesbrough and was 79 years old. Please could any relatives contact the Bereavement Service on 01642 835638 or 01642 835929.
A painting marking the community spirit during COVID-19 has been unveiled at
#JamesCookHospital
. It was created by matron Vicki Davidson and will be permanently on display in the hospitalโs main atrium near the south entrance. ๐๐
A report published today by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) shows our trust as one of the nationโs top performers in the 2020 children and young peopleโs patient experience survey.
Congratulations to our cardiovascular team for being shortlisted in the Heart Team of the Year category at the Global Cardiovascular Awards 2024. Now itโs up to us to help them win the award! Visit the link below and vote for our amazing team.
#GCVAwards
A big thank you to Yarm School Year 3 pupils who visited
#JamesCookHospital
today to present our staff with lots of fantastic healthy heart posters that they have kindly designed to brighten up Ward 32!
@YarmSchool
@HeadPrepYarm
We are delighted to acknowledge a great achievement in terms of NHS service. Sister Cheryle Whitton, our renal day unit and home therapies manager, has dedicated 40 years to renal nursing! Great work Cheryle!
#LoveNursing
@RenalJCUH
Jackie Simpson has retired after 43 years working as a diagnostic radiographer. Our radiology team would like to thank Jackie for her commitment to the trust and profession and wish her well in her retirement. Congratulations Jackie!
A new renal unit has officially opened its doors at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
The unit, funded by the Friends of the Friarage, has space to dialyse up to 10 patients.
@DandSTimes
#FriarageHospital
Great news! Our lung cancer surgical team has been shortlisted as a national finalist in the NHS Parliamentary Awards for Excellence in Healthcare! Thanks
@SimonClarkeMP
for the nomination! Congratulations team!
#NHSParlyAwards
Community nursing teams have pulled out all the stops to ensure their most vulnerable patients get the care they need throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more about it on our website โก๏ธ
#Nurses
#Covid19UK
#NHSheroes
We are delighted to report that we have been ranked in the top 10 nationally by Foundation Year 1 doctors for overall job satisfaction following the results of the 2018 GMC National Training Survey.
#steesJOBS
An incredible achievement for ward 33 at
#JamesCookHospital
as they were awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark. The accomplishment makes the unit one of the few provisions in the country to score the highest rating of 5. Congratulations to the team for the amazing feat.
A series of scenic light boxes have been installed along the service corridor which leads to the mortuary at
#JamesCookHospital
.
It is hoped they will provide a more pleasant walkway and be a distraction for grieving relatives.
Read more on our website:
Doctors in the house! Our largest ever intake of junior doctors - over 200 - are at James Cook today as they start their careers at the trust. The day started with an induction at the academic centre. And later today they will go and meet their clinical teams.
#steesSTAFF
Our radiology team would like to wish Mae Robinson a wonderful 70th birthday for tomorrow! Mae has worked for the trust for 21 years and continued working through the whole of the pandemic. Happy birthday Mae!
Community infection rates for COVID-19 remain high and we have sadly seen a sharp increase in patients requiring COVID care at The James Cook University Hospital. Please read and share the update below ๐
Our paediatric critical care team won a STAR award in recognition of the exceptional care, kindness and empathy they show to all the families in the unit.
Thank you ๐
Best wishes to our Macmillan clinical nurse specialist Tess Craig who retires from our Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland community specialist palliative care team today following 40 years working for the NHS. ๐.
#SteesStaff
#retirement
#Congratulations
@tanya_dunnill
It's extremely busy at
#JamesCookHospital
right now. Help us by only using A&E for emergencies, using urgent treatment centres for minor illnesses/injuries and by not visiting if you have had sickness/diarrhoea in the past 48 hours. You can also help by retweeting this message!
#JamesCookHospital
has become the 1st healthcare setting in the region to be presented with a Gold Autism Acceptance Award from
@NEautismsociety
for making life easier for autistic and neurodiverse children facing operations! ๐
Our extraordinary laboratory teams in bacteriology and virology have today processed their 200,000th COVID swab test! This is a phenomenal effort - and at the moment the team are processing one test every three minutes!
*Photographs taken before social distancing measures
โTogether,
#SteesSTAFF
have all achieved something truly special, and we will continue to build on this progress for our fantastic patients and service users in the years to come.โ
#JamesCookHospital
has been named as an international flagship site for a specialist heart procedure called TAVI which replaces narrowed heart valves without the need for open heart surgery...
#cardiology
#TAVI
#HeartSurgery
A big shout out today to Howdens Joinery at Kingston Park! Thank you Martin Carss and Yvonne Currie for the kind donation of disinfectant wipes, protective gloves and face masks which will help to protect our staff at South Tees Hospitals treating our COVID patients.
A new marshal role has been introduced across the trust to support staff safety. The PPE marshals educate and support all our staff, so that they are confident and safe whilst using PPE.
Thank you ๐
#OurNHSPeople
#SteesStaff
Big shout out today to Trinity Catholic College for their donation of safety glasses/goggles to support our COVID-19 response. Special thanks to David Hinchley one of the science teachers for delivering them!
We're pleased to announce that we've appointed Stacey Hunter as group chief executive officer at both our trust and
@NTeesHpoolNHSFT
Read the full announcement here:
We would like to say a BIG thank you to Dave Beattie and Fara Wallis.๐Dave is the founder of
@RountonCoffee
and sent us some coffee beans and ground coffee. It smells divine! โ๏ธ. Fara owns Dolcie in Northallerton and brought us toiletries, snacks, drinks for our welfare bags.๐
The final winner of this month's STAR Awards was clinical sister Jackie Miller.
Nothing is ever too much for Jackie; she is always happy to help others and has been an inspirational role model to many of her colleagues and to the trustโs students. โญ
We are pleased to share that our radiotherapy team at
#JamesCookHospital
has achieved amazing results in the national radiotherapy patient experience survey.
Read more:
Congratulations to our clinical lead for theatres, Sarah Baker, who has been shortlisted for the Perioperative and Surgical Care Award at the
#HSJpatientsafety
2020 awards!
Congratulations to our specialist heart team at
#JamesCookHospital
for winning Heart Team of the Year at the first Global Cardiovascular Awards 2024.
A fantastic achievement!
#GVCAwards2024
#TAVI
To celebrate International Women's Day 2021, women from across South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust came together to talk about their experience.
#IWD2021
#OurNHSPeople
@StephLunch
WATCH: 16 volunteers from the National Citizens Scheme
#NCS
today delivered personalised โhopeโ boxes to children on wards at
#JamesCookHospital
which contained lots of wonderful gifts.
We went live with electronic prescribing on ward 11 last week and we want to say a big thank you to everyone involved in making it happen and go so smoothly. All credit to the pharmacy team, trainers and ward 11, who have been fantastic!
South Tees has opened a virtual ward to give COVID-19 patients the opportunity to be discharged home early, where their oxygen levels can be monitored remotely.
Read more about it here โก๏ธ
This week our cardiothoracic team had the opportunity to work alongside world-renowned cardiac surgeon, Dr Tirone E. David.
He pioneered the Aortic Valve Sparing Root replacement (known as David procedure) and is working with us to make the surgery accessible to our patients.
In order to protect our patients, visitors and staff, it has now sadly become necessary to stop almost all our visitors to South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites.
Please visit our website for more information:
Middlesbrough patients are set to benefit from a ยฃ9m investment in health services that will see a new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) built next to the Emergency Department at
#JamesCookHospital
.
Specialist lung cancer nurses are hitting the road to minimise the amount of time their patients have to spend in hospital during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a ยฃ50,000 grant from
@macmillancancer
Last year 48 severely injured patients, who had a probability of survival of less than 50%, survived after being admitted to our Major Trauma Centre at James Cook Hospital! More great stats here...