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, […]

The domestic staff at Airedale Hospital have been sharing their expertise across the country, by advising on a new national training programme for cleaning professionals across the NHS. The team have been a pilot site for the launch of the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals (AHCP ) Competency & Knowledge Workbook – completion of which […]

The Friends of Airedale have given the Airedale Hospital courtyards a boost by providing funding of £5000 to help maintain the lovely garden spaces for patients and visitors. The Friends have bought a storage shed for each courtyard and the remainder of the money can be spent on plants, planters, benches or any other equipment […]

Pictured L to R: Richard Attley, Project Manager, Integrated Health Projects, Nicola Riley Capital Manager, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Daron Walker, Construction Manager, Integrated Health Projects.   It was an exciting time at Airedale Hospital this week as contractors broke ground to start the build proper on the new £6m acute assessment unit – the […]

Plans to develop a new £6m Acute Assessment Unit are underway at Airedale Hospital to help provide better short stay facilities and reduce the number of patients admitted unnecessarily. The unit will be next to the trust’s Emergency Department allowing staff to work together more efficiently across several disciplines which will help to ease workforce […]

Pictured with the new signs at Airedale Hospital are: – John Lofthouse, section leader of the hospital guides; Amy Sikkes, business development support manager and Paul King, estates project officer. A plan to install 900 new internal and external signs at the site of Airedale Hospital is almost complete. They are part of the new […]

A new signage system is being introduced at Airedale Hospital to help patients find their way around the site more easily. This is because the hospital has developed significantly causing the existing signs to be outdated. Around 900 signs, both internal and external, are being replaced between Monday  29 February and Friday 11 Marchby Nuneaton […]