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07.01.2010 - Chronicle Live
SUPERSTAR singer Alexandra Burke has sent a message of support to the family of brave cancer sufferer Sophie Atay. The X Factor winner, who was behind a £100,000 donation to help the two-year-old get specialist treatment, said she is keeping her fingers crossed as Sophie battles a relapse.
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07.01.2010 - BBC News Tees
Six-month-old Ted Parks was born with a heart condition, but has started 2010 with a new heart, and a fresh start.
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06.01.2010 - The Whitehaven News
TRANSPLANT patient Mason Haley from Cleator Moor has been presented with £600 from two local sources, Whitehaven AFC and the Romar Innovate foundation in Whitehaven.
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06.01.2010 - Nursing Times
| By Graham Clews The nurse who helped inspire Bob Geldof to create the Band Aid charity has been made a Dame in the New Years honours list. Claire Bertschinger worked as a Red Cross nurse in famine-hit Ethiopia in the 1980s, and after watching an interview where she spoke of the tragedy she was witnessing,..
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31.12.2009 - BBC News Tees
A six-month-old Middlesbrough boy born with a rare heart condition has returned home after a transplant.
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24.12.2009 - Chronicle Live
BEHIND little Jack Sundin’s cheeky smile lies a tale of Christmas courage. The youngster is excitedly looking forward to Santa’s presents after battling through life-saving surgery on his spine.
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24.12.2009 - Chronicle Live
SIR Bobby Robson’s son said his family would face their first Christmas without their Dad buoyed by the knowledge his legacy lives on. Company boss Andrew Robson, 50, from Tynemouth, is spending tomorrow with his elder brother Paul, 52, younger brother Mark, 46, and their mum Lady Elsie, as well as the...
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24.12.2009 - Chronicle Live
CHRISTMAS angels Patrick Skinner and Ellen Walsh are the only presents their parents want after they defied the odds to be here. And as they shake their Christmas presents under the tree, it's hard to believe they were battling for life after undergoing heart transplants within hours of each other.
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23.12.2009 - Yahoo Uk And Ireland News
The mother of a seriously ill three-year-old has made an impassioned appeal for her son to get the heart transplant he so desperately needs.
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23.12.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
A national consultation proposing new patients rights under the NHS Constitution is currently underway and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is asking all members of staff to register their views in a region wide poll by 15 January 2010.
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22.12.2009 - FT.com - UK
A stem cell treatment developed in Newcastle has restored good vision to eight people who had lost sight in one eye. â This has transformed my life,â said one of the patients, Russell Turnbull, whose right eye was burned and scarred in an ammonia attack after intervening in a fight on a Newcastle bus 15...
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17.12.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
CQC Documents for December 2009 are now available to view.
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17.12.2009 - The Sun
SUN readers have helped to raise more than £13,000 in 2009 to care for premature and sick babies. We launched our campaign to help the Tiny Lives charity - which backs the neonatal unit at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary - last year.
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15.12.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
LITTLE fighter “Super Ted” Parks was due out of intensive care today - a week after his life-saving heart transplant. The brave Normanby baby, whose plight has touched Teesside, had the heart transplant which was his only hope last Tuesday at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
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15.12.2009 - Nursing Times
| By Charlotte Santry Nurses will be central to the delivery of a “new wave” of national patient safety initiatives to combat issues such as pressure ulcers and healthcare acquired infections.
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14.12.2009 - BBC News Tyne
A 50-seat cinema showing the latest box office releases is to be opened for patients at a Newcastle Hospital.
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13.12.2009 - Sunday Sun
MUMS-to-be are being urged to get vaccinated against swine flu. Midwives from Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary have launched an appeal to encourage pregnant women to take up the option of getting the jab.
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13.12.2009 - Sunday Sun
A DAY at a time heart-transplant baby Ted Parks takes tiny steps towards recovery. The tough youngster, nicknamed Super Ted after battling back from a stopped heart three times, received his life-saving transplant last week.
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11.12.2009 - Hexham Courant
THE longest-serving employee at one of Tynedale’s biggest business success stories has said farewell to the company she helped launch over a decade ago.
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10.12.2009 - BBC News England
A five-month-old Middlesbrough boy born with a rare heart condition has been given a transplant. Ted Parks had arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease, and doctors feared he would die unless a donor heart was found quickly.
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08.12.2009 - News & Star
LOUISE Broughton, a six-year-old who died of a brain tumour earlier this year, inspired two runners to raise almost £2,000 for charity.
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07.12.2009 - www.nebusiness.co.uk
Seven companies from across the region topped the bill at the Business for Life Awards, which brought together more than 340 of the region’s key players in the healthcare and life sciences community.
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07.12.2009 - Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
Will Norendal, holding his BraveHeart plaque, with his parents, Halv Norendal and Karen Challoner (right), and BBC Look North presenter Carol Malia, who presented the award.
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07.12.2009 - Journal Live
THIS time two years ago it looked as if Victoria Moore would never celebrate Christmas again. She and her family were left grief-stricken when the mother-of-five was diagnosed with a deadly heart virus and told by doctors to say her goodbyes to loved ones.
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01.12.2009 - Equalitysouthwest
[summary] [Sir Bobby celebrated at voluntary sector awards ceremony] Sir Bobby Robson was celebrated amongst the region's voluntary and community Sector stars last night (Thursday 26th November) at the 2009 North East VCS Awards, held at the Radisson Hotel, Durham.
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30.11.2009 - redOrbit
Patients often complain that getting a good night's sleep or a bit of peace and quiet in hospital can be difficult. But a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing has shown that adopting some simple measures can reduce peak noise levels on hospital wards by just under 20...
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30.11.2009 - BBC News Tees
The parents of a five-month-old boy with a rare heart condition have been told he "urgently" needs a transplant to survive.
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30.11.2009 - Craven Herald & Pioneer
Friends of a farmer whose life has been saved through a heart transplant are rallying to raise money for the hospital that treated him. Martin Whitaker, from Bentham, was born 25 years ago with a congenital heart condition.
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28.11.2009 - BBC News Cumbria
Drink related hospital admissions in the North East and Cumbria have increased since changes in alcohol licensing four years ago.
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26.11.2009 - Journal Live
COURAGEOUS Alan Bainbridge has been nominated for a bravery award for “keeping his smile” through gruelling cancer treatment. While the 15-year-old’s friends are out playing football or socialising together, Alan is having chemotherapy to treat a life-threatening cancer.
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26.11.2009 - Chronicle Live
So if you are a budding eco-warrior whose efforts to help the environment go beyond the norm, or you know of a group, school or individual whose green activities make them eco-champs, enter our awards.
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26.11.2009 - gazettelive.co.uk
"SUPER" Ted Parks' short life has been a constant battle against the odds - and now he faces the ultimate challenge. The five-month-old Teesside youngster has a heart condition so rare, he may be the only sufferer in the world.
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26.11.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
A CHILDREN’S cancer charity enjoyed a £4,000 boost after a successful summer partnership with the Gazette. Buy Photo For the second year running, we teamed up with CLIC Sargent for the charity’s Kick for Children with Cancer initiative.
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25.11.2009 - BBC News Tees
Five-month-old Ted Parks suffers from a heart condition that doctors initially thought they could treat with medication.
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23.11.2009 - The Sun
TINY Ted Parks desperately needs a heart transplant - but is clinging to life with such bravery that nurses have dubbed him Super Ted. The five-month-old, who has an extremely rare heart condition, has amazed docs by fighting back from the brink of death THREE times.
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20.11.2009 - www.nebusiness.co.uk
THE top performing businesses in the region’s healthcare and life sciences sector were recognised at an awards ceremony last night. Seven companies topped the bill at the Business for Life Awards, hosted by Cels.
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18.11.2009 - The Scotsman
A miracle baby from Hartlepool spent 15 days on a life support machine after being born with his heart the wrong way round. Joseph Robinson's life hung in the balance after he was born three weeks early - with his heart stopping five times when he was just hours old.
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17.11.2009 - Journal Live
A NORTH East parliamentary candidate has launched a campaign to reverse the decision to build a new emergency care hospital in the region. Last month, bosses at NHS North of Tyne gave the go-ahead to a £200m investment plan which will dramatically shake up the way health services are provided in Tyneside and.
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16.11.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“The next meeting of the Council of Governors, which is open to the public, will take place at 2-00pm on Thursday, 19th November 2009, in the Function Room, Education Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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16.11.2009 - The Sun
BATTLING Julie Robson has had life-saving kidney transplants - from her dad AND her mum. Julie 34, received her first transplant ten years ago from her father Bob Deighton, now 56.
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14.11.2009 - Daily Mail
Chris Boardman had every reason to be beaming from the top podium in the Olympic stadium in Barcelona. It was 1992 and at the age of 23, he was fit, healthy and happy.
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14.11.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
A BRAVE Teesside mum who is successfully battling one of the deadliest of cancers is determined to complete a daring expedition in a bid to help other sufferers.
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13.11.2009 - Journal Live
A NORTH East doctor turned gladiator . . . has turned doctor again. Dr Zoe Williams – or Amazon, as she was known to fans of the Sky One show – has returned to supply shifts with the Newcastle Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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13.11.2009 - HealthImaging.com
The Royal Victoria Infirmary, part of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a Magnetom Avanto 1.5 Tesla MRI system from Siemens Healthcare.
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12.11.2009 - One NorthEast
Proctor & Gamble (P&G) will develop the next generation of more environmentally-friendly detergents at its Tyneside base as part of its ongoing global commitment to sustainable development.
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12.11.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
FUNDRAISERS are keeping alive the memory of a talented young film-maker. Joe Tan, of Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, was just 29 when he died after undergoing major surgery at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital in May.
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11.11.2009 - The Whitehaven News
A 12-HOUR darts marathon will be aiming to raise money in aid of a young Whitehaven boy who suffered a brain infection while on holiday in Spain.
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11.11.2009 - www.nebusiness.co.uk
1 2 3 4 next Where once our export routes were forged by the kings of heavy industry, it is now North East scientists who may hold the key to our future international success.
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08.11.2009 - East Anglian Daily Times
IPSWICH Town legend Sir Bobby Robson has found a unique new way of raising money - more than three months after he died. Compost made from flowers left in memory of the former England, Ipswich, and Newcastle manager has gone on sale in the North East to raise money for his cancer foundation.
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05.11.2009 - The Northern Echo
A SINGER and former cancer patient has raised £8,500 to buy equipment for a regional cancer charity. Trish Greensmith, known to many by her stage name Chyrelle Addams, (Correct) donated money collected during performances to the Charlie Bear for Cancer Care charitable fund.
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05.11.2009 - the advertiser series
A TEENAGE leukaemia patient and his family have helped to raise more than £4,000 for a charity helping fellow cancer sufferers. Sporty 14-year-old Harvey Gaydon has already returned to the tennis court and is looking forward to getting back to school just seven months after a lifesaving bone marrow...
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04.11.2009 - The Sun
A MIRACLE mum last night told of her amazing fightback - after medics replaced both her lungs in a bid to save her life.
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01.11.2009 - The Northern Echo
FAMILY and friends released 200 balloons on Sunday as an event to mark what would have been a cancer victims 19th birthday. Liam Harker died in May 2007 aged just 17 from Burkitt's Lymphoma, a rare form of cancer.
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31.10.2009 - The Northern Echo
A TEENAGE leukaemia patient and his family have helped to raise more than £4,000 for a charity helping fellow cancer sufferers. Sporty 14-year-old Harvey Gaydon has already returned to the tennis court and is looking forward to getting back to school seven months after a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
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29.10.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
TWO bike cops went to the ends of the earth - or at least the UK - to help patients at a North-east hospital. Cleveland Police officers PC Kevin Keay and PC Mick Watson biked from John O’Groats to Lands End, then back to Newcastle.
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29.10.2009 - Bikersweb
The owners of Newcastle Harley-Davidson successfully completed their ambitious 48-hour charity ride across the UK on Sunday 25 October. The Ride Aid event, from Newcastle to Lands End via John O’Groats, has so far raised almost £15,000 for the Breast Clinic Fund at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI).
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28.10.2009 - The Whitehaven News
BORN with a serious heart condition, Connor Mason had to undergo lifesaving open heart surgery at just 11 days old.
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28.10.2009 - The Shields Gazette
A JARROW man's love for his late wife has inspired him to create charity artworks in her memory.
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28.10.2009 - The Shields Gazette
FRIENDS of a young cancer victim are planning a Halloween spectacular to push the amount of money raised in her memory past the £80,000 mark.
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26.10.2009 - Chronicle Live
The weather forecast was grim but when Sunday arrived we were treated to lovely warm sunshine (hard to believe looking out of this window at the grey sky), the absolutely delightful garden at Moorbank and live music from Robson’s Choice.
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26.10.2009 - Journal Live
A GRATEFUL teenager who survived a malignant brain tumour has raised thousands of pounds for a Tyneside hospital unit that offers hope to other young people stricken by cancer.
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25.10.2009 - Sunday Sun
HAIRY Biker Simon King has been “humbled” by messages of support from fans since being knocked off his bike. The popular presenter was rushed to hospital last week when he came off his bike in Newcastle during rush hour traffic.
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25.10.2009 - Bikersweb
A pink-themed Ladies of Harley motorcycle ride-out from the Newcastle Harley-Davidson and Buell showroom to Linden Hall has helped to take the total fundraising tally to date for the Newcastle Ride Aid charity challenge to almost £4,000.
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16.10.2009 - Wear Valley Mecury
A 15-year-old army cadet from Hunwick will use her birthday present to raise money for ill children. Lauren Hawthorne, a pupil at Wolsingham Community College, told her mum Tracey not to bother buying her presents for her birthday last May and instead asked her to pay for a charity bungee jump.
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16.10.2009 - The Shields Gazette
A WORLD-leading centre for cancer patients has opened in the region.
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15.10.2009 - LowestFT The Journal 24
A CHARITY set up by Ipswich Town legend Sir Bobby Robson has raised more than £2 million to help fight cancer. Former Newcastle United footballer Alan Shearer, who is a patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, has today announced that the charity has raised more than £2 million.
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15.10.2009 - Yahoo Uk And Ireland News
Football hero Alan Shearer will be named as the new patron of Sir Bobby Robson's cancer research charity.
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14.10.2009 - Fansonline.net
One of Sir Bobby Robson’s final acts on behalf of his charity was also one of his most enjoyable when he officially launched a new children’s waiting area at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in Newcastle.
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12.10.2009 - News & Star
A CANCER survivor who lost an eye and had to have a heart transplant will today meet the doctors who saved his life.
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07.10.2009 - News Guardian
A NEW GP-led health centre which opened in North Tyneside recently is already proving its worth to residents.
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05.10.2009 - Journal Live
FALLING off her bike saved young Kelly Hudson’s life after a series of routine tests showed she had cancer. The check-up uncovered a life-threatening tumour the size of a tennis ball in the 11-year-old’s right thigh.
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05.10.2009 - News & Star
A MARYPORT girl had more than one reason to celebrate her 18th birthday on Saturday. Title Author Copyright Description When Stephanie Easterbook, of Ellenfoot Drive, was only a few weeks old doctors told her mother Anita that she would not live unless she had a life-saving operation to switch her main...
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02.10.2009 - BBC News Tyne
Work is due to begin on a dedicated transplant centre in Tyneside, described as the first of its kind in the UK.
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02.10.2009 - Sunderland Echo
Inspirational Grace Jones has defied the doctors after undergoing a major operation to correct a curvature in her spine.
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01.10.2009 - Journal Live
ONE of the region’s best-loved charities, which is supported by The Journal, has spent up to £1m in the last five years to help people with cancer. Charlie Bear for Cancer Care has used its funds to purchase equipment for the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
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29.09.2009 - Journal Live
The Journal is backing the Charlie Bear for Cancer Care charity, which has raised millions for those suffering the condition. Former reporter Avril Deane has played a pivotal role in the charity and she takes a fond look back at her time with the charity IN June this year at an uplifting wartime...
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28.09.2009 - Journal Live
As a world-leading centre for cancer patients opens in the North East, health correspondent Helen Rae gets an exclusive look around. FROM the outside its impressive entrance looks more like a exclusive hotel than a life-saving centre.
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26.09.2009 - Journal Live
Today The Journal launches a campaign to get people to sign up to the NHS organ donor list. HANNAH DAVIES speaks to a mother-of-three on what a transplant will mean for her Click here to register as an NHS organ donor online or telephone (0300) 123 23 23 ANGELA Bernardelli is a slight woman in her early 40s.
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17.09.2009 - Evening Star 24
SIR Bobby Robson's widow last night said the family had been left “completely overwhelmed” by the flood of donations to his foundation since his death.
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16.09.2009 - BBC News Tyne
Terry Yardley from Prudhoe is one of thousands of cancer patients hoping to benefit from help at the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.
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14.09.2009 - BBC News Tyne
Professor Ruth Plummer was Sir Bobby Robson's oncologist for more than two years, treating him for various cancers. She shares some of her memories of Bobby as her patient, fundraiser and friend.
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14.09.2009 - Journal Live
TWINS and triplets from across the region came together to celebrate multiple births yesterday. The third annual ‘More than One’ event was held in Leazes Park, Newcastle, and was organised by Sandra Bosman, the UK’s first midwife specialising in mothers expecting multiple babies.
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14.09.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The next meeting of the Council of Governors, which is open to the public, will be held at 2-00pm on Thursday, 17th September 2009, in the Education Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. The Agenda and papers may be found in the Council of Governors page
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12.09.2009 - Gazette Live.co.uk
AT first glance it’s not hard to see why Katie Chipchase has been chosen to model the latest fashions on a charity catwalk. But her pretty blonde hair and cheeky smile tell a very different story to that of her past.
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08.09.2009 - Yorkshire Post
Gabrysia Filarowski is full of energy and back home in Leeds – but still faces a wait to see if her latest treatment is working.
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29.08.2009 - Journal Live
A BROTHER and sister suffering the same heart condition have both had life-saving heart transplants. Claire Crozier, 33, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy three years ago and doctors at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital told the former fitness instructor that only a new heart would save her.
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23.08.2009 - Sunday Sun
MIRACLE man Graeme Appleby was told by doctors he only had two weeks to live . . . yet today he’s a fighting fit sporting hero. The former agricultural engineer, 51, has returned from the British Transplant Games clutching a bronze medal in the team volleyball event.
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12.08.2009 - Yorkshire Post
Fifteen years ago, Lynda Morrison under went a heart transplant when she was seven. Without the transplant she would have died from cardiomyopathy.
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11.08.2009 - Journal Live
SWAP op miracle man Kez Greenwood clutches his athletics medals –- just a few months after being told he had 48 hours to live. Kez won both the shot put and discus events at the UK Transplant Games.
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30.07.2009 - BBC News West Yorkshire
A baby who was given only months to live unless she received a new heart has returned home after a transplant.
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06.07.2009 - BBC News England
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement As part of Transplant Awareness Week, Look North has a series of special reports from the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle featuring staff and patients.
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03.07.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Plans to develop the UK’s first purpose built transplantation centre at the Freeman Hospital received final approval today by Newcastle City Council’s Planning Committee
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01.07.2009 - Journal Live
GREAT North Run founder Brendan Foster has announced a special partnership between the North East’s biggest sporting event and a new children’s hospital in the region.
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26.06.2009 - Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bupa Great North Run organisers, Nova International, have announced a unique association with its namesake, the Great North Children’s Hospital
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24.06.2009 - Journal Live
The Journal MUSICAL theatre lover and double heart transplant patient Sarah Barton got a surprise curtain call at her hospital bed. The brave 12-year-old is recovering from a second heart swap operation at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
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11.06.2009 - The Shields Gazette
JAMIE Hall is back in the saddle and looking to the future after a life-saving heart transplant. Just six weeks ago, the 21-year-old was given the new heart in a major operation – but he's already back home and living life to the full.
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08.06.2009 - Chronicle Live
Eye specialists at Newcastle’s RVI believe thousands of people in the North East could be at risk from glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness in the UK today.
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30.05.2009 - Chronicle Live
Heart op youngsters Ellen, one, and Patrick, two-and-a-half, have met at home for the first time after undergoing lifesaving surgery. The pair live just a few streets apart in Whitley Bay and had their transplants within hours of each other in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.
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20.05.2009 - Journal Live
A father-of-three who has fought cancer has welcomed the new scanner in Newcastle which will prevent patients having to travel to London for PET CT scans.
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19.05.2009 - BBC News
A baby who may only have months to live unless she gets a new heart has been put top of Britain's transplant list in Newcastle
