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Isle residents are being invited to get more involved in how their local health trust is being run.Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) is inviting people from across South Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire to take part in a series of engagement events.The trust’s chief executive Kathryn Singh will open the first quarterly ‘˜Listen to Learn Network’ event of 2017 on Tuesday January 24 at the Woodfield Park Community Hall in Balby as part of its commitment to deliver its new Patient and Public Engagement and Experience Strategy.Event organiser Cheryl Watkinson said: ‘We’re delighted to be launching these new-look network events, which have been organised in response to feedback from our patients, carers and partners at a recent big conversation’.’The events will be held across all of Doncaster, Rotherham and Northern Lincolnshire to provide patients, carers, partners and the public with a meaningful opportunity to get involved in working with us to deliver our patient and public engagement and experience strategy and to share examples of good practice.’To get involved email cheryl.watkingson@rdash.nhs.uk, or ring 0800 015 0370.

A North Lincolnshire hospital ward has been closed to new admissions for six days, due to an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting.

Patients are benefiting after Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust improved its quality of care and the level of leadership among its clinicians.

The next meeting for the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust board of directors will take place on Tuesday October 28, in the main boardroom at Grimsby’s Diana, Princess of Wales hospital.

Death rates for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust are well below the national average.

NHS employees have virtually crossed the Sahara Desert 57 times on foot.