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.
Inspired by his friend’s incredible selflessness, and in celebration of his life, Jack, aged 7, is donating his hair and raising funds for Hull Women and Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Unit at a fundraiser to be held at the Moulders Arms pub in Beverley.
Riley was a 15-year-old who inspired all those he met with his kind and generous nature. Riley sadly lost his baby cousins Mason and Miles in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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.
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.
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.
Hospital staff in Hull are to benefit from a £130,000 health and wellbeing facility thanks to the support of local people and NHS Charities Together.
Earlier this year, individuals and community groups pulled out all the stops to thank staff for working through the Covid-19 pandemic at both Castle Hill Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals Trust’s official charity WISHH has expressed their gratitude to communities across the region for their fundraising efforts.
As a result of the pandemic sweeping across the nation, the charity launched the WISHH COVID-19 Appeal.
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 patients during these exceptional times.
Hospital executive, Lee Bond, is about to embark on the challenge of a lifetime as he bids to run the London marathon and raise £10,000 for the WISHH.
The charity raises money for Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital. Funds raised will enable the opening of a sensory room for children with additional needs including Autism, ADHD, ADD, or for children experiencing anxiety or trauma attending the Hull and East Yorkshire Eye Hospital.
Sue Stephenson, the High Sheriff of East Riding of Yorkshire and WISHH Charity Chairman, officially unveiled the new look Coral Ward 130.
Situated on the top floor of Hull Royal Infirmary’s tower block the new ward is for the sickest children in the area.
Sue Stephenson, The High Sheriff of East Riding of Yorkshire and WISHH Charity Chairman, will officially unveil the new look Coral Ward 130 in the Hull Royal Infirmary’s tower block.
The sickest children in the area are provided with care on this ward and following a wall sticker appeal through the WISHH charity a sum of £6,500 was raised to enhance the ward environment.
Resident Playwright and Hospital at Night Lead Nurse Steph Flanagan wrote and directed her first play, ‘Egg White and Oxygen’ which transports the audience back to nursing times in the 1980s, as a Trainee nurse dons her uniform for the first time to start her training. Due to popular demand, the play is returning on the 26th and 27th August.
Following the successful Humber Biz week last month, featuring the Institute of Director’s (IoD) Humber Luncheon with former England footballer and manager and best-selling author, Kevin Keegan as guest speaker, the WISHH Charity which raises funds to support both Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital was one of three charities drawn to receive a cheque for £845.00.