The piece was donated to Leeds Cares, the charity of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, by Garry McBride. Captain Sir Tom raised more than £33 million for NHS charities when he walked laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to mark his 100th birthday. His efforts captured the nation’s hearts and he received a string of honours – including a knighthood and the freedom of Keighley. He even released a charity single, You’ll Never Walk Alone, with singer Michael Ball – which topped the charts, making him the oldest artist ever to have a UK number one single. Leeds Cares benefited from the fundraising with help to set-up an employee, patient and volunteer support fund, provide a refurbished staff room for frontline workers and buy bedside TVs and radios for patients unable to receive visitors.
1/1 THE charity set up in memory of a York schoolboy who died of a brain tumour is to help fund a new project which will boost Yorkshire research into the cancer. OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity and Yorkshire’s Brain Tumour Charity will jointly fund a new brain tumour tissue bank in Leeds, which is set to open in January. The bank, headed up by scientist and Associate Professor Dr Lucy Stead at the University of Leeds, will ensure researchers in Yorkshire are better resourced to continue their world-renowned work, providing state-of-the-art resources to collect, examine and conserve fresh tissue samples.
Bell v Tavistock ) has caused a great deal of concern amongst the parents of children with gender dysphoria and trans children themselves. A link to the proceedings can be found
here, but in short, the claimants, Ms Bell and Mrs A, brought a claim for judicial review against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust through its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS); University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Ms Bell had transitioned whilst she was a patient of GIDS and subsequently de-transitioned as an adult; Mrs A was the mother of an autistic child with gender dysphoria who was concerned about her child being referred to GIDS and prescribed puberty blockers (notwithstanding that the child would not meet GIDS criteria and therefore this was a theoretical concern).
THREE intensive care doctors from the Countess of Chester Hospital have teamed up with other NHS colleagues to enter the chart battle for this year s Christmas number one. Consultant intensivists Dr Kate Tizard, Dr Lyndsay Cheater and Dr Beccy Gale joined forces with other doctors, nurses, therapists and pharmacists from intensive care units across the UK to record a specially adapted version of The Police’s 1980s hit ‘Every breath you take’. Proceeds from the ICU Liberty Singers’ Christmas single, which features more than 100 NHS workers in a virtual choir, will go towards a fund administered by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine to support the mental health and wellbeing of ICU staff across the UK.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the London-based Gender Identity Development Service, has begun an appeals process (Getty)
The NHS trust that runs the UK’s only gender identity clinic for transgender children has begun the process of appealing the High Court’s ruling on puberty blockers.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the London-based Gender Identity Development Service, has been forced to pause endocrinology referrals in the wake of the High Court’s ruling earlier this month.
The court ruled that most teens would be incapable of giving informed consent for puberty blockers, with the judges arguing it is “doubtful” those aged 14 to 15 could understand “the long-term risks and consequences” of taking blockers and subsequent hormone therapy, and that it is “highly unlikely” younger children could consent.