MBE for business leader working to bring stability to the world’s trouble spots

The head of an East Yorkshire business that works globally to help governments tackle challenges including pandemics, terrorism, corruption, war crimes and modern slavery has been made an MBE for services to international trade. Helen Gibson, managing director of Agencia, credited her family and colleagues for their part in earning the honour, which recognises the company’s activities in some of...

Latus Health gives employees five paid ‘Give Back’ days per year

Hull-based Latus Health has implemented a new initiative encouraging employees to give back to their local communities, friends and colleagues by offering paid volunteer time off. Latus Health’s mission seeks to improve lives, whether that’s the lives of its employees or those of the wider community. The pandemic emphasised the need to pull together as a community more than ever before, and...

Care centre’s garden to bloom in memory of Jean Bishop

Citycare has teamed up with Environmental & Management Solutions Yorkshire to create a memorial garden in memory of Hull’s Bee Lady at the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre. The sensory garden, which forms part of wider improvements to the ICC’s green space, will create a more welcoming, therapeutic environment for the centre’s elderly and frail patients. Clare Cornelius, Citycare estates...

The award-winning local start-up behind Hull’s new £8m ICU

While most new companies start small, one Hull-based construction management firm has wasted no time in achieving its ambitious plans with the completion of its latest project - Hull Royal Infirmary’s new state-of-the-art £8m intensive care unit, which opened its doors to critically ill patients this week. Established in October 2020, Helix Construction Management Services’s vision was to...

Councillors counting down to completion after behind the scenes tour of long-awaited health centre

A new health centre that waited 15 years to secure funding has now hosted a visit by local councillors as it enters the final stage of construction. The Willand Primary Care Centre is contracted to be handed over early in 2022, replacing the old Willerby and Swanland surgeries with a modern building, services and facilities as well as more staff. Councillor Val Wood, who joined the visit as...