Orthopaedic Surgeons at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust in West Yorkshire have launched the first NHS ‘one-stop’ upper limb clinic to include a consultant radiologist, significantly reducing waiting and treatment times for patients with shoulder pain. The new clinic which opened this week will mean patients with shoulder or elbow problems including bursitis, impingement or rotator […]

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A special bus stop on a ward is helping give dementia patients at Airedale Hospital a quiet and safe place to be and helping them feel more settled whilst they are in hospital. For patients with dementia coming into hospital can be disorientating and frightening as the ward will be unfamiliar and the person may […]

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Staff and volunteers at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust got a special preview this week of the new £7m Acute Assessment unit as the Trust’s construction partner, Integrated Health Projects, gets ready to hand the building over to the trust as it nears completion. The new 48 bed unit, which opens to patients in late April, […]

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A new consultant orthopaedic surgeon has joined the expanding team at Airedale hospital. James Tyler, originally from Burley in Wharfedale, has recently begun working at Airedale hospital as part of an expanding orthopaedic team. Educated at Sedbergh and at St Andrew’s and Manchester universities before training in orthopaedics in South East England, James specialised in […]

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