Accountancy firm in post-lockdown fundraising fitness challenge

With the easing of Covid restrictions, 360 Chartered Accountants has just completed a month-long fitness and wellness challenge to encourage its team to look after both their physical and mental health – while raising money for charity at the same time. To spur everyone on, they decided to split into two teams to walk, run or cycle as many miles as they could during April, each team fundraising...

Agencia’s buddy system helps health workers cope with Covid-19 pressures

Primary care workers in practices across the UK are feeling the benefit of wellbeing sessions delivered by a business from East Yorkshire to help them cope with the combined pressures of Covid and the demands of day-to-day duties. Karen Auty, a practice manager based in West Yorkshire, said she and her team took great comfort from patients’ gifts ranging from cakes and chocolates to masks and...

Boxing champ knocks out heavyweight competition to land wellbeing contract with Siemens Gamesa

Workshop warm-ups and canteen smoothie stations are helping to transform the lifestyles of hundreds of staff at one of the region’s major employers after bosses invested in putting the wellbeing of workers first. Management at Siemens Gamesa in Hull say the programme is bringing benefits for its team of more than 750 people from wind turbine assembly lines to office staff. Now the company has...

Medical school’s flagship programme welcomes largest-ever cohort of Year 12 students

Hull York Medical School is welcoming its largest-ever cohort of Year 12s as more than 50 students begin its flagship Pathways to Medicine programme. The programme was launched in 2015 and is now in its sixth year. Delivered in partnership with the Sutton Trust, it is a widening participation initiative that supports sixth-form students in the local area who are aspiring to study...

Covid-19 test centre established at Humberside Airport

Humberside Airport has engaged a Hull-based healthcare business to establish a Covid-19 testing centre in the regional airport’s main terminal. Latus Health will offer PCR laboratory testing and rapid lateral flow test appointments at Humberside, which is a key gateway for business travel from the east of England to the global hub of Schiphol, Netherlands. Humberside has continued to operate...