Hertford County Hospital

06/04/2026

Did you know, in addition to this page, we also have dedicated pages for our NHS trust and the various hospital sites we manage:

Learn about East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Listen to all-things Lister Hospital
Follow us over at New QEII Hospital
And stay up to date with happenings at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

You can learn more about our other social media channels via our trust website: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/press

06/04/2026

Upcoming industrial action 🚨

Please be aware of planned industrial action from 7-13 April 📅

Appointments and operations are going ahead as planned - please attend at your scheduled time. unless we contact you.

More info at

There are a number of planned days of industrial action which are very likely to have an impact on the services provided by East and North Hertfordshire NHS trust at our hospitals

05/04/2026

From Tuesday, industrial action will affect our services 🚨

Our clinicians will be focusing on urgent and emergency care. If you have a loved one in hospital, please read our top tips to help them get home as soon as they're better and consider collecting them from hospital if you can ⤵️

05/04/2026

Happy Easter Sunday from everyone at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust 💙🐣

Please stay safe this weekend, think 111 first if you need help, or call 999 if it's life or limb-threatening 💻📞

03/04/2026

We’d like to wish all our staff, patients and visitors an 'eggcellent' Good Friday and a safe Bank Holiday Weekend 🐣💙

We would also like to thank our colleagues working over the Bank Holiday to care for our patients 🙌

02/04/2026

Industrial action is planned from next week and will run from 7am on Tuesday 7 April to 7am on Monday 13 April.

If strike action goes ahead as planned, it will affect our services 🚨

During this time, our clinicians will be focusing on urgent and emergency care. If you have a loved one in hospital, please read our top tips to help them get home as soon as they're better and consider collecting them from hospital if you can ⤵️

02/04/2026

Stress doesn't have to control your life.

Take charge of your mental health this Stress Awareness Month with practical tips and advice: https://nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-health-issues/stress/

01/04/2026

We're celebrating our first year of being a teaching trust! 🎉

In our first year, our medical education team has trained 210 student doctors and 136 newly qualified doctors 👨‍⚕️

Our research team has recruited more than 4,000 patients into 97 research studies 🤱

Our clinical education team have trained 225 student nurses and 237 newly-qualified nurses! 🥼

And our apprenticeships team has enabled 278 of our staff to enhance their careers with an apprenticeship 🩵

We also introduced our Excellence in Education award at our annual staff awards ceremony, which was won by the brilliant Amy Hunt for her role in the International Midwifery Education programme 👶🌎

01/04/2026

If you're planning a trip this bank holiday weekend and you take regular medication, please don't leave them behind or fail to take enough with you.

Don't let prescribed medicines run out - you can order your repeat prescription before the bank holiday weekend and manage repeat prescriptions through Patient Online at https://www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/programmes/patient-online/

01/04/2026

We’d like to wish all our staff, patients and visitors a Happy Passover!

The Jewish Passover, also called Pesach, begins today and commemorates part of the Jewish story and celebrates moving on to freedom.

Chag pesach sameach 💙

29/03/2026

Happy Palm Sunday to all those celebrating ✨🌿

Wishing all our patients, staff, and communities who are marking Palm Sunday today a peaceful start to Holy Week 🩵

28/03/2026

Don't forget the clocks go forward one hour this Sunday (29 March) at 1am, marking the start of British Summer Time! ⏰

If you have an appointment with us this weekend or early next week, please do double-check your timing so you don't accidentally arrive an hour late.

Wishing everyone a lovely (if slightly shorter!) weekend. 🌸☀️