East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

11/12/2025

The festive season is a time for celebration, family, and togetherness 🤗🎄

To help ensure you can spend it where you want to be – at home, it’s important to understand how to access the right care, at the right time, if you or a loved one fall ill this winter ❄️

NHS services are here to help. Making the right choice means others can also get the care they need during this busy period 🏥✅

The festive season is a time for celebration, family, and togetherness. To help ensure you can spend it where you want to be – at home, it’s important to understand how to access the right care, at the right time, if you or a loved one fall ill this winter. NHS services are here to […]

11/12/2025

You've put up the Christmas tree ✅
You've ordered your Christmas turkey ✅
But have you requested your repeat prescription? ❌

Don't get caught out by the Christmas shutdown – order your repeat prescriptions ahead of the festive season! 💊

NHS leaders across Hertfordshire and west Essex are urging local people to order their repeat prescriptions, so they have all the medication they need to last them over the Christmas and New Year period for a worry-free festive season. It can take up to five working days for some pharmacies to proce...

10/12/2025

We know parents worry when their children become ill and information online can often worsen fears! 😨🩹

Don’t ask Dr. Google – most winter illnesses can be managed at home with self-care advice. Our new online symptom checker can help you understand what to do and when you need to seek help for your little ones this winter 🏥❓

Visit our website for trusted NHS guidance and please remember, our A&E department is for life or limb-threatening injuries and illness only 🚫

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/symptom-checker

10/12/2025

"I was very pleased to have avoided another hospital admission and felt that staying in my own home helped me to recover quicker and reduced my anxiety" 🤗

Juliet from Hertfordshire joined more than 1,300 patients this year who have benefited from Hospital at Home 🏡🏥

Learn more about our collaboration with Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust and the how hospital-equivalent care at home is relieving pressure on busy NHS trusts this winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3yHpeAV0M

07/12/2025

Did you know, you can receive hospital-equivalent care in the comfort of your own home? 🏡

Over 1,300 patients have this year, and you could join them! 👈

Speak to our clinicians about whether you're eligible for hospital care at home for any of the following:

- Medication reviews by pharmacists 🏥
- Remote monitoring for oxygen levels, pulse rate, temperature and blood pressure 🌡️
- First dose IV/oral antibiotics for treating acute infections like UTIs, cellulitis, chest infections and pneumonia 💊
- Falls, urgent mobility assessments and rapid decline in functional ability 🦽
- End of life and palliative care 💙
- ECG testing ❤️📈

For more about this Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust-led service, visit: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/services/hospital-at-home

05/12/2025

So far this year, we've accepted 1,335 patients onto the Hospital at Home programme! 💙

That's 1,335 patients who didn't need to sit in a hospital bed, but instead enjoyed hospital-equivalent care in the comfort of their own home 🏡

If you or a loved one is currently on one of our inpatient wards, speak to our clinicians about whether you might be eligible for Hospital at Home, and get home in time for Christmas! 🎄

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/services/hospital-at-home

05/12/2025

In November alone, 339 beautiful babies were born across East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust 👶

That’s 339 new little lives welcomed into the world and 339 reasons to smile! 😊

A huge shout out to our wonderful maternity colleagues, you make these magical moments possible 💙

05/12/2025

Need healthcare and not sure where to go? Please think NHS 111 first or visit one of our Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC)

Open until 10pm every day, our UTCs at both Lister and New QEII Hospital can treat:
🤕 Minor injury or illness
🩹 A bite, sting, cut, or bruise
🌡️ A burn or scald
👃 Objects in ears or noses
🦴 Suspected fractures or broken bones

📍 Lister UTC: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/services/urgent-treatment-centre-lister-hospital/
📍 New QEII UTC: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/services/urgent-treatment-centre/

NHS 111: https://111.nhs.uk/

04/12/2025

We’re so proud of Milly and the wonderful contribution she has made here at Lister whilst on her supported internship. Thank you for helping us spread Christmas cheer and for the positive impact you've had on our patients and their families! 🎄✨

02/12/2025

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This week is Grief Awareness Week, and a chance to recognise how any type of loss can affect our wellbeing.

There’s no right or wrong way to feel — grief affects everyone differently.

If you're finding things difficult, there’s support that can help.

➡️ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/grief-bereavement-loss/

02/12/2025

We're really pleased to congratulate Chirag Lakhani, Superintendent radiotherapy radiographer and the head and neck cancer multidisciplinary team at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre for being awarded the British Institute of Radiology/Bayer 'Make it better' service award.

The team at Mount Vernon Cancer centre has been recognised for their innovative work based on implementing a 17-day pathway for patients being treated for head and neck cancer with radical radiotherapy, when radiotherapy is used to try to cure the cancer as opposed to treating symptoms. This is a key metric linked to improved patient outcomes.

Congratulations Chirag and the cancer centre team - thank you for all your hard work, making a difference to patients being treated for cancer and reducing delays.