Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides care at Sheffield's five adult hospitals.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services. In addition to community health services, the Trust comprises five of Yorkshire’s best known teaching hospitals.

• The Royal Hallamshire Hospital
• The Northern General Hospital
• Charles Clifford Dental Hospital
• Weston Park Cancer Hospital
• Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital

The Trust has a history of high quality care, clinical excellence and innovation in medical research. We strive to promote a culture of continuous quality improvement and encourage our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ in order to deliver the highest standard of care to our patients. The Northern General Hospital is the home of the City’s Accident and Emergency department which is also now one of three Major Trauma Centres for the Yorkshire and Humber region. A number of specialist medical and surgical services are also located at the Northern General Hospital including cardiac, orthopaedics, burns, plastic surgery, spinal injuries and renal to name a few. A state-of-the-art laboratories complex provides leading edge diagnostic services. The hospital also provides a wide range of specialist surgery such as orthopaedic, spinal cord, hand and kidney transplantation. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital has a dedicated Neurosciences department including an intensive care unit for patients with head injuries, neurological conditions such as stroke and for patients that have undergone neurosurgery. It also has an award winning Gastroenterology department, a large Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Unit as well as a specialist Haematology centre and other medical and surgical services. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is home to the largest dental school in the region, a women’s hospital with a specialist neonatal intensive care unit and a world renowned Cancer hospital. The Trust also manages the City’s NHS community health services to support our work to provide care closer to home for patients and preventing admissions to hospital wherever possible. Through our partnerships with the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, other health and social care providers and industry we remain at the forefront of advancements in clinical services, teaching and research. We have around 18,500 employees, making us one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of local communities and are proud of our new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authority and charitable bodies. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff: the dedication and skill of our employees are what make our hospitals and community services successful and we continue to keep the health and wellbeing of our staff as a priority. Our vision is to be recognised as the best provider of health, clinical research and education in the UK and a strong contributor to the aspiration of Sheffield to be a vibrant and healthy city. We have begun this journey with our staff, partners and patients and we will continue to explore every aspect of our business to ensure we are doing our very best to achieve our vision.

📢Resident Doctor Industrial action from 7am on 17th December until 7am on the 22nd December  👇Emergency care will be ava...
15/12/2025

📢Resident Doctor Industrial action from 7am on 17th December until 7am on the 22nd December 👇

Emergency care will be available as usual but we will have fewer doctors and so waiting times will be much longer than normal for less urgent conditions or injuries. Please help up by only using A&E if it is an emergency.

PLEASE NOTE - that the Minor Injuries Unit at the Hallamshire Hospital will be closed throughout the period of action. If you need non urgent medical advice or if you are not sure what service you need, please call 111. 111 can also directly book appointments out of hours with a GP. Broad Lane Walk in Centre in the City Centre is also open as normal to provide urgent care without an appointment. https://www.sth.nhs.uk/sheffield-urgent-care/

Patients who have planned procedures or appointments should attend as planned unless contacted by us. If your appointment or procedure is postponed, we will rearrange it as quickly as we can.

Please help us during this time by:

• Please make sure you have all the medicines you need so you do not run out during the strike period.

• Please pick up relatives promptly when they are ready to be discharged from our wards, this helps us have the bed ready for the next patient quickly.

• Be kind to our staff, they are doing their very best to help you.

At the NHS, we want to make sure patients have a good experience of care. Getting feedback from patients helps us improv...
15/12/2025

At the NHS, we want to make sure patients have a good experience of care. Getting feedback from patients helps us improve and give patients what they need.

If you were treated for cancer during April, May, June 2025, you may be invited to take part in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey. If you are invited, you will get a letter with more information.

Please have your say 📢 Your answers will help the NHS make cancer care better.

For more information on the survey, please visit www.ncpes.co.uk

Jessop Wing praised by patients in 2025 National Maternity Survey 👇Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s J...
12/12/2025

Jessop Wing praised by patients in 2025 National Maternity Survey 👇

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Jessop Wing has received praise in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) National Maternity Survey 2025, after being rated ‘better’ than other Trusts in a number of areas of care.

Across the survey which was published this week (10.12.25), women reported high levels of respect, kindness, dignity, and involvement in their care - with many measures either improving or maintaining strong performance.

The Trust was rated ‘much better, better or somewhat better’ than other Trusts in a number of areas including:

• Respect and dignity during labour
Receiving appropriate advice at the start of labour
• Access to staff when needed during labour and birth
• Support for infant feeding and postnatal feeding advice
• Staff communication and teamwork
• Being spoken to in a way that could be understood
• Feeling listened to during triage assessments

💬Chris Morley, Chief Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “These results reflect the dedication and professionalism of our maternity teams who work incredibly hard to provide safe, compassionate, and personalised care. We are particularly pleased with the feedback on support to women in labour, communication, and emotional wellbeing. We are however never complacent and will be using this feedback to inform ongoing improvements.”

💬 Laura Rumsey Director of Midwifery at Sheffield teaching hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our teams work incredibly hard to provide safe and supportive care for women and families and so it is great to see this dedication reflected in the survey results . We are grateful to everyone who shared their experience. Their voices highlight what we’re doing well and where we can further improve.”

One mum who agreed with the findings was Morgan Llewellyn, aged 24 from Handsworth, who gave birth to baby Odin, weighing 7 pounds 9 on 9th December 2025 at Jessop Wing.

💬 She said: “I had a planned c-section as Odin was breech and everything was calm and straight forward. I felt really supported and had everything explained to be really well. I felt like I was able to ask questions and was comfortable with everyone caring for me before, during and after being in theatre.”

The survey, which captures the experiences of women who gave birth in February 2025, achieved a 39% response rate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (155 responses), a 3% increase on 2024 and equal to the national average.

Help us to help you this Winter.Like most other hospitals across the NHS, we are experiencing high levels of emergency c...
12/12/2025

Help us to help you this Winter.

Like most other hospitals across the NHS, we are experiencing high levels of emergency care demand which is further exacerbated by a higher-than-normal number of flu cases this year. As of this week, we have over 90 patients admitted with flu and many more with other respiratory illnesses. We have plans in place to manage increases in demand, however this year the number of flu cases is adding to the normal winter pressures.

Our plans include increasing the number of beds where possible, ensuring timely discharge of patients who no longer need medical care and the use of same day assessment units where it is appropriate for a patient to be seen and discharged on the same day.

Teams are working exceptionally hard across our hospitals and community services, and people can help us by collecting patients in a timely manner when ready for discharge and only using A&E in genuine emergencies. Alternatives for non-emergency care are available here: https://www.sth.nhs.uk/sheffield-urgent-care/

We would also ask people not to visit our hospitals if you are unwell to limit the spread of flu and other seasonal illnesses. We would also urge everyone who is eligible to ensure they get their flu vaccination to give themselves the best possible protection.

People that can get the free NHS flu vaccine:

• people aged 65 or over
• anyone 6 months to 64 years old with certain long-term health conditions
• pregnant women
• children aged 2 to 3 years old
• residents in long-stay residential care homes
• carers in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
• anyone living with someone who has a weakened immune system

Full details on eligibility and how to get the vaccine are available here: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/flu-vaccine/

A state-of-the-art new system is enabling more patients with liver cancer to benefit from a minimally invasive treatment...
11/12/2025

A state-of-the-art new system is enabling more patients with liver cancer to benefit from a minimally invasive treatment.

The introduction of CT navigation for liver ablation enables clinicians to target tumours with an extremely high level of accuracy. The system also has ‘confirmation software’ which helps to verify the exact margins of the area that needs treatment.

Ablation is when the affected area of tissue is destroyed using extreme heat or cold, administered using a precisely positioned needle.

We are just the fifth centre in the UK to install this gold-standard navigation system.

It replaces the previous ultrasound guided ablation system, which had limitations as only lesions that could be identified on ultrasound could be treated and the accuracy of the treatment could not be confirmed until a follow-up scan. This meant some patients were too complex to treat with ablation and may then have had to undergo more invasive surgery or had a non-curative treatment.

Consultant Radiologist, Dr Naomi Hersey, said: “Replacing the ultrasound system with the CT guidance enables us to plan the exact area we need to treat, and be sure there and then that we are targeting that area precisely and that we have all of the tumour.

“If we can see it on a CT or MRI scan, then we can treat it. This means that we can offer liver ablation as a treatment option for more patients and that it is safer with reduced recurrence rates and longer life expectancy.

“It can also be done as a day-case or one-day stay, which reduces the amount of time people need to spend in hospital.”

The new system is also freeing up extra theatre capacity and reducing overall treatment costs.

The CT guidance technology could also potentially be used to treat kidney and lung tumours in Sheffield in the future.

Paul Mathers, aged 69, of Sheffield, underwent a liver ablation treatment in September this year to treat a cancerous tumour on his liver.

In 2022 he had undergone keyhole surgery to treat the same condition in a different part of the liver.

He said: “For the first one, I was left with a wound to dress and it took a couple weeks to heal and I was left with a scar. This time, I came round from the anaesthetic and it was like I had had nothing done. You couldn’t even see where the needles had gone in. My son picked me up after a couple of hours and I was told I could go home. It was absolutely brilliant – I’d had a tumour removed at the end of the day, but there were no after-effects, I felt like I could have gone and played a game of football!”

Anaesthetists play a major role in hospital life, so it's a great pleasure to announce that Dr Matt Wiles, Consultant in...
10/12/2025

Anaesthetists play a major role in hospital life, so it's a great pleasure to announce that Dr Matt Wiles, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care and Clinical Lead for Major Trauma, is to be presented with the prestigious Featherstone Professorship. 🪶

The Featherstone Professorship is one of the Association of Anesthetists' most prestigious awards and is given to those who have made a substantial contribution to the field of anaesthesia, including clinicians and scientists.

Only 12 previous anaesthetists have been recipients.

Dr Wiles, who joined us in 2011, has been recognised for his academic work, his major contribution to Anaesthesia Journal as Editor-in-Chief and for participating in several national and international guideline development groups which focused on safety outcomes as a core element.

Key contributions to the field include:

✅Adapting to significant changes within the surgical population. Patients are now older, often have higher body mass index, and present with more multiple, co-existing conditions
✅Thanks to advances in care and treatments, elective procedures for the over 65s, once rare, are now routine, with Dr Wiles and his team now caring for patients well beyond the age of 100
✅Shaping expert guidelines for the management of patients aged 65 and over, who are often unable to take part in research due to their age and complexity of their conditions
✅ Supporting management of hypertension (abnormally high blood pressure), liver injury and women who wanting to continue to breastfeed before and after having an operation under anaesthesia.

Speaking about his Fellowship, Dr Wiles said he was "humbled and honoured" to receive the prestigious award which reflected the "tremendous collaborative efforts of countless colleagues over the years".

🗨️Above all, I am proud to be part of the anaesthesia profession and feel very fortunate to receive this recognition, which honours the dedication and hard work of so many.”

Well done Dr Wiles and we look forward to sharing the photos from the official award presentation in January! 💙

Link in comments for full story.

🎉We were absolutely delighted to welcome back STH legend, Dr Trish Fisher, to officially open our linear accelerator dev...
09/12/2025

🎉We were absolutely delighted to welcome back STH legend, Dr Trish Fisher, to officially open our linear accelerator development at Weston Park Cancer Centre 🎉

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Over £7million has been invested in two new state of the art linear accelerators at Weston Park Cancer Centre to meet growing demand for radiotherapy.

The development includes a purpose-built extension wing at Weston Park Cancer Centre to house two new Halcyon radiotherapy machines which enable faster, more precise radiotherapy treatments and will provide additional capacity to meet the growing demand for radiotherapy. The new wing also provides modern welcoming waiting area for patients and staff facilities.

The new machines were officially opened by Dr Trish Fisher, retired Clinical Oncologist and former Clinical Director for Specialised Cancer Services at the Trust. Trish was invited to cut the ribbon in recognition of over 30 years of outstanding contribution she has made to Weston Park and cancer care across the region.

💬Dr Trish Fisher said: "I was thrilled to be invited to officially open this important new wing which houses two more state of the art radiotherapy machines which halve the treatment time for patients compared to previous machines that we used. This £7m development represents another step forward in Sheffield Teaching Hospital's commitment to providing the highest standard of cancer care to patients from across South Yorkshire and beyond using the latest technology."

We’re excited to share that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of the first Trusts in the UK to pilot a new artificial ...
08/12/2025

We’re excited to share that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of the first Trusts in the UK to pilot a new artificial intelligence app that could change how wounds are assessed and monitored in patients' homes 🥳📲

The Minuteful for Wound app allows clinicians to capture high-quality wound images using just a smartphone. The AI then analyses and measures wounds instantly, uploading results to a secure portal for continuous monitoring.

This means quicker spotting of complications and better support for patients with complex or long-term wounds. 👏

Our fantastic community district nursing teams in Woodhouse, Darnall and Ecclesfield are the first to try it out. A patient version, Minuteful for Wound@Home, will also be trialled, helping people track their own wounds safely at home and avoid unnecessary clinic visits.

With millions of people across the NHS needing wound care each year, this kind of technology could make a real difference.

Saul Hill, Professional Head of Podiatry at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:

💬 “We’re excited to be trialling cutting-edge AI technology to enhance wound care. The introduction of Minuteful for Wound provides real-time visibility of wound healing progress, supports early detection of complications, and helps accelerate recovery for patients with complex or chronic wounds. The addition of the patient-facing app also empowers people to take an active role in managing their wounds at home, which is particularly valuable for those with long-term or palliative care needs.”

A huge thank you to Sheffield Hospitals Charity for supporting this project through the Dragons’ Den Innovation Fund. 💙

Over 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣patients have joined a game-changing trial which could transform care for thousands of people living with ...
06/12/2025

Over 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣patients have joined a game-changing trial which could transform care for thousands of people living with hand and arm weakness following a stroke. 💪

The Triceps trial is running in 19 NHS centres nationally and is open to anyone 18 and over living with arm and hand weakness whose stroke occurred between six months and ten years ago and who are not currently undergoing rehabilitation therapy.

Once complete it could lead to the rollout of a new treatment which delivers electrical pulses to the brain during rehabilitation therapy, at cost and at scale.

The treatment known as transcutaneous (through the skin) vagus nerve stimulation (TVNS) involves stimulating a key nerve called the vagus nerve, using a wearable device which connects to a wired earpiece.

By pairing the treatment with a lightweight, portable pacemaker-like device, the trial aims to demonstrate that hand and arm weakness in stroke survivors can be improved whilst rehabilitation therapy is undertaken at home, providing convenience and easy access to patients.

The trial - which was originally set up to recruit up to 243 patients - has now been expanded to 270 patients, meaning even more patients across the country could now benefit.

Previous research using the technique has shown huge promise. However, in these trials the electrical stimulator was surgically implanted in the chest.

Triceps is one of the first non-invasive trials of its kind to see whether the treatment can improve hand and arm weakness in stroke survivors.

Link in comments for more details on joining.

Tell us about your journeys to the Northern General 👇Sheffield City Council is running a focus group to better understan...
05/12/2025

Tell us about your journeys to the Northern General 👇

Sheffield City Council is running a focus group to better understand staff and patient experiences travelling to and from the hospital.

Help shape transport improvements in the area and get a £20 shopping voucher for your time.

📍When: Tuesday 9 December 12pm-1:30pm (extended breaks can be arranged)

📍Where: Clocktower Boardroom

To confirm your attendance, please contact sth.travelplanning@nhs.net or 07356130496

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