Specialist palliative care consultant Dr Helen Livingstone is ‘humbled’ to receive an MBE in this year’s New Years Honours for her services to end of life healthcare. Dr Livingstone, who is currently working at Sue Ryder Manorlands, accepted the award on behalf of her palliative care team including consultants Drs Michael Hughes  and Linda Wilson […]

It’s a bright New Year for a dozen apprentice health care support workers who couldn’t wait to start work on the wards and in other clinical areas at Airedale Hospital. Following an intensive induction, the new recruits will be working alongside and under the supervision of experienced clinical staff as part of a 12 month […]

Thanks to a partnership with Bounty, the company that provides pregnancy and birth information, mums-to-be and new mums at Airedale Hospital will now be able to instantly find out more information about the hospital’s services, and get health advice direct from the hospital by way of a new, free mobile app.

                A winner has been chosen from a competition held at Airedale Hospital encouraging children to come up with a design for a Trust Christmas card. Some beautiful entries flooded in, but the winning design, chosen by a panel of judges, was by Gracey Throup, aged 5, with […]

Airedale Hospital’s Child Development Centre is officially ‘Makaton friendly’ – the team who run it have just gained recognition from the charity promoting the languageprogramme A team of 25 staff across the trust including paediatricians, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and therapy support staff use Makaton to communicate with children and young people […]

Airedale Hospital’s children’s ward has received an early Christmas present in the shape of an incredibly generous donation for older children who have to stay on the ward. Nottingham-based ALB Investments Limited are currently refurbishing the Delph and Leyland tower blocks in Keighley, and wanted to make a Christmas donation to the children’s ward.  Staff […]

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With less than two weeks until Christmas, people are being urged to put repeat prescriptions on their ‘to-do’ lists and be prepared. The three local NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs): Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, Bradford City and Bradford Districts are advising people, families and carers not to leave it too late to order any repeat […]

A dozen ‘Mo bros and sisters’ at Airedale at Hospital took up the challenge to either sprout extra hair or get moving to top £600 for Movember – the global campaign to stop men dying too young. The team, named Haireshare (a play on the name of the trust’s intranet, Aireshare, and ‘hair’ for the […]