With the summer holidays approaching, South Tyneside and Sunderland kidney patients can find out just how flexible dialysis treatment can be at special campervan roadshows next week.
New, state-of-the art equipment costing nearly £6,000, purchased by South Tyneside District Hospital through the generosity of its League of Friends, is revolutionising the way many patients are being weighed.
National sight loss charity the Macular Society says the only way to stop hundreds of thousands of people losing their sight is to fund much more research.
Healthcare leaders at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust have today confirmed that changes to children’s emergency care services at South Tyneside District Hospital will take place over the summer.
Leading Consultant Kidney Specialist Dr Saeed Ahmed, who works at Sunderland Royal Hospital, will be among those highlighting the importance of organ donation at an event in Newcastle on June 23rd. Every day across the UK, three people who could have benefited from a transplant die because there are not enough organ donors.
The NHS in South Tyneside and Sunderland is backing NHS North of England Cancer Alliances’ new campaign which is raising awareness of the links between smoking and 16 types of cancer. The key message is: ‘Smoking causes 16 cancers. If one doesn’t kill you…it could change your life. Quitting is the one clear way to reduce your risk’.
Eight-year-old Benjamin Miller has a very special reason for taking part in this year’s Mini Great North Run - he will be running in aid of Sunderland Royal Hospital’s head and neck cancer charitable fund to thank the team who helped to save his mum’s life.
A ground-breaking £985,000 cancer research and treatment project, funded by the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and announced today (11 June), aims to reverse the region’s high incidence and low survival rates of bowel cancer (also called colorectal cancer).
The family of a South Shields father who was cared for in his final days by staff in the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) at South Tyneside District Hospital have donated items to aid other patients in their recovery.
A national conference in Emergency Radiology is coming to the region for the first time in June, bringing together a range of medical experts from all over Europe. The British Society of Emergency Radiology Conference, which is being held at the Durham Marriott Hotel on the 5th and 6th of June, promotes excellence in emergency imaging across the UK.
