Hull Royal Infirmary patients face long waits – what you need to know – Hull Live NHS Humber Health Partnership has urged people with non-emergency situations to consider other services as the hospital faces pressure The NHS is asking patients to choose services appropriately.(Image: Getty) People could be waiting hours …
Read More »Dad writes poem to ‘hidden angels’ of Hull Royal Infirmary after receiving ‘amazing’ care
‘I don’t think anyone understands the work ethic and the time, patience, hours and care these people put in’ James Hurst has praised the care he received from Ward 4 at Hull Royal Infirmary(Image: supplied image/NHS Humber Health Partnership) A man who needed surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from …
Read More »Hull Royal Infirmary cladding to be removed following law change
The hospital’s operator says ‘patients, staff and visitors can be reassured as we have extensive measures in place to ensure their safety’ Hull Royal Infirmary(Image: NHS Humber Health Partnership) The cladding on Hull Royal Infirmary is set to be removed after the building was found to no longer comply with …
Read More »Hospital leaders apologise after Hull Royal Infirmary lifts break down in heatwave
Hospital bosses have reassured staff and patients that lifts at Hull Royal Infirmary are on the mend after three stopped working during the heatwave. The Anlaby Road building, built in the 1960s, has 13 storeys which hospital visitors, staff and some patients were having to scale following the sudden breakdown …
Read More »Hull Royal Infirmary ‘gets animated’ to support kids receiving treatment
Hull Royal Infirmary are using the power of animation to help support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families. Working with animation company, Get Animated Medical, paediatric staff at the hospital and their colleagues in neurophysiology have created a video to explain what’s involved in an …
Read More ȣ6.1m investment in Hull Royal Infirmary site that will make significant energy savings
More than £6m will be spent on solar power projects at Hull Royal Infirmary to make significant energy savings and reduce its carbon emissions. Great British Energy is the Government’s newly created public-owned renewable energy investment company. It has announced its first project, to put rooftop solar panels on 200 …
Read More »Man caught ‘acting aggressively’ at Hull Royal Infirmary with an ‘axe’
An aggressive homeless man was found at Hull Royal Infirmary with a “fearsome” and “highly dangerous” wood splitter axe that could have been used to “split someone’s head open”. Drug user John Proctor also had a kitchen knife with him when he went to the hospital and it was not …
Read More »Hull Royal Infirmary warns ‘don’t come to A&E unless it’s an emergency’ amid New Year pressure
Emergency departments are very busy on New Year’s Day and people have been asked to try alternatives if they are feeling poorly and it isn’t a “genuine emergency”. Hull Royal Infirmary has put up a post reminding people that hangovers and other minor ailments are not a reason to come …
Read More »Former doctor at Hull Royal Infirmary struck off for ‘sexual harassment’
A former doctor working at Hull Royal Infirmary has been struck off for misconduct after a tribunal found he had kissed and inappropriately touched female colleagues. Dr Vikram Gangaiah Aarella’s repeated and unwanted sexual behaviour towards two female doctors at the hospital in October 2022 was laid bare in a …
Read More »Hull Royal Infirmary car park operator lodges bid to waive improvement requirements to keep operating
The operator of a car park used by Hull Royal Infirmary staff, patients and visitors is bidding to waive requirements that it improves the facility so it can keep operating. An application lodged by Bank Parking for the Fountain Street car park is seeking to remove a planning condition requiring …
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