Hull Hospitals would like to thank all of the amazing companies, individuals and organisations who have already come forward offering support to our staff and hospitals for the care we are providing patients during the COVID-19 outbreak.    Supported by our Hull Hospital’s official charity, WISHH, there are a number of ways you can help the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital and the staff who are working tirelessly on delivering care to our…

Humberside Police Chief Constable Lee Freeman has provided the following update in relation to three weeks of policing Covid-19 restrictions. CC Freeman said: “Further to the update I provided yesterday, in relation to the eight tickets issued over the bank holiday weekend, I wish to provide an update in relation to our policing approach throughout the last three weeks of living under the new restrictions. “When we started three weeks ago, I was clear that enforcement…

Bundles of Joy is a local charity aiming to help relieve poverty and support disadvantaged babies, children and families through providing clothes, toys, prams, cots, other baby equipment, toiletries and nappies.  We normally achieve this through receiving donations from the local community throughout Beverley, Hull and East Riding and passing them on to families in need. These families can be those affected by poverty, crisis, illness or domestic abuse. During the current Covid 19 situation…

As we progress through this unprecedented emergency period, in which the whole world has been affected to an extent never before experienced, we are all trying to create new ways of operating as organisations or businesses and trying to protect ourselves, others and specifically the NHS. As your Police and Crime Commissioner I am responsible for a number of areas and this blog will highlight some of the things the Office of The Police and…

Hospitals urge public to seek medical advice elsewhere as coronavirus effort intensifies A local doctor is asking for the public’s help as hospitals across East Yorkshire intensify their efforts to tackle coronavirus. Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Dr Alastair Pickering, says nursing staff are being taken away from caring for the sick by members of the public calling for advice or to ask about loved ones. Dr Pickering explains: “We understand it is incredibly difficult for…

Two women who took to motorcycling in their 40s are looking forward to getting back on two wheels as therapy to help them deal with day jobs providing relief for the effects of coronavirus. Julia Nendick, who works as carer to her disabled daughter, spends two days a week volunteering at the ESM foodbank at the Freedom Centre in East Hull. Denise Rose, a semi-retired nurse practitioner, has offered to increase her hours at Bransholme…