Health

A stunning rainbow appeared over the Johnson Hospital last night as NHS staff were given special thanks through the Spalding COVID Kindness Team and local businesses. As part of the 8pm clap for the NHS, the community group formed by volunteers showed their appreciation for the staff that work in the hospital and provided them with goody bags and flowers ...

A hobby has led to a Spalding couple making potentially life saving personal protection equipment for health care staff across the country in their spare time. Luke and Anna Atkin have already made more than 60 protective visors and ear savers from their home on the Hayfields estate. And that’s with engineer Luke working full time at Deister Electriconics while ...

Employees of a company where more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed have said they’re ‘terrified’ working at its Spalding site where at least one person was hospitalised with the virus. In an article posted yesterday (Wednesday) The Voice, reported that Dalehead Foods, which is a division of Tulip Ltd, had confirmed an employee at its Fulney Lane site had ...

A Spalding food supplier has said it’s continuing to work safely after an employee was hospitalised with COVID-19. Dalehead Foods, which is a division of Tulip Ltd, told staff of their colleague’s illness at a briefing on Monday, it’s been claimed. A concerned employee contacted The Voice saying workers had been left worried and were upset they hadn’t been told ...

A group making scrubs for NHS staff is on the lookout for donations of clothes and people to help sew up in South Holland. For The Love of Scrubs Lincolnshire was set up by Pilgrim Hospital nurse Ashleigh Linsdell after an appeal to make the gowns used to prevent infections because the hospital was “severely short of scrubs”. Within a ...

A mum and daughter are supporting NHS staff by knitting ‘sore ear savers’. Vicci Tyler (38) was on her second week of furlough leave when she saw a post on Facebook asking people to knit sore ear savers for staff at Boston’s Pilgrim and Peterborough hospitals. Vicci tagged in mum Kathy Easey, who is retired and loves knitting. The pair, ...

A Spalding nurse is urging people to continue to give blood during the current COVID-19 crisis. Mark Le Sage is urging people to keep any blood appointments they may have and urging others to sign up for the vital service. While coronavirus continues to be the main focus of health in the UK, the country still needs to maintain its ...

Spalding’s Johnson Hospital is one of four hospitals across the county which will be offering a new patient service. With the coronavirus pandemic causing patient visiting to be temporarily suspended across Lincolnshire, the new service has been launched to help patients stay in touch with family and friends while they are in hospital. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) ...

A nurse who needed to isolate from his parents due to the COVID-19 risk has been given a flat rent-free. Callum Philips, a staff nurse in the Peterborough Hospital A&E department, was chosen by Matt Clark, of the Activ Group, to move into the Spalding flat. Matt said: “I am extremely pleased to report that following our Facebook post (helped ...

A family has said thank you to the NHS and Pilgrim Hospital for saving the life of their little girl who is among the youngest in the country to recover from Coronavirus. Agata and Michael Peters from Coningsby are no stranger to hospitals. Their youngest daughter Leah was born prematurely at 32 weeks and five days. They knew before her ...

The Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in King’s Lynn has paid tribute to one of its healthcare assistants who has died after contracting COVID-19. A statement listed as by Caroline Shaw, CEO and Professor Steve Barnett, chairman for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn was released today (Monday). It said: “Everyone at QEH is today coming to terms with the devastating ...

The mum of a radiographer has been inspired to set up a sewing group to create bags for NHS staff. Jenny Gay, of Pinchbeck, wanted to do something to support her daughter who is among the frontline staff at Peterborough City Hospital. She decided to create the bags that staff can immediately put the uniform they’ve been wearing on a ...

The Johnson Hospital’s Minor Injuries Unit is to close to walk in patients from tonight (Tuesday, April 7). From 6pm tonight you will no longer be able to access the service at the Spalding hospital and prospective patients are being urged to call NHS 111 instead. In a statement released at 4pm this afternoon, Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, ...

Cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Holbeach according to the town’s medical centre. The Holbeach Medical Centre has posted on its website urging people follow government guidance in the town as a result of the confirmed cases. The statement says: “With confirmed cases in the Holbeach locality we are asking EVERYONE to ensure they are following the Government guidance ...

A Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn patient, who is currently receiving treatment for COVID-19, has joined a research trial into a range of potential treatments in the fight against the virus. The patient is the first from QEH to be recruited to the national Recovery Trial, which will include a range of different treatments to establish evidence about which drugs ...

Facemasks specially made by staff at a school are among the ways the community has come to the aid of Holbeach Hospital in the last few weeks. University Academy Holbeach staff have donated face maks made by staff in the school’s workshop to the community run hospital so it can help protect staff from COVID-19. There’s also been donations from ...

The trust that runs a number of Lincolnshire hospitals, including Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital, has suspended all non-emergency outpatient appointments. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, which also runs County Hospital in Lincoln and hospitals in Grantham and Louth, say it’s to protect patients and staff amid the coronavius crisis. A ULHT spokesman. said: “United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is working hard to ...

A Spalding gym is supporting the community throughout the coronavirus crisis by offering live online workouts and a meal delivery service. Since the announcement was made that gyms would be forced to close, Definitions Health and Fitness instantly adapted to support its members and the wider community by offering free online workouts via Facebook Live. Definitions’ Jack Smith, believes it’s ...

A group of volunteers who for 30 years have been offering low-cost travel for those that need it most in the district are currently looking to pick up prescriptions and essentials for those self-isolating. On a normal week The South Holland Parish Voluntary Car Service would help around 100 people get to locations like the shops or hospitals from nine ...

A Spalding-based business has come up with a novel way of explaining COVID-19 to a child. GiftsOnline4U has developed a free personalised eBook. Designed especially for three and four-year-olds the ebook explains why children are unable to go to school, nursery, the park or play with friends during the coronavirus outbreak. Asgar Dungarwalla, founder of GiftsOnline4U, said: “Just as the ...