Wellbeing

A year after opening behind Gledhow Wing at St James's, the White Rose Wellbeing Garden marked its anniversary with a mosaic-making session run by the Royal Horticultural Society, as staff and patients describe a green space that's become part of both everyday relief and recovery at the hospital.

A £20 million expansion of Seacroft's Community Diagnostic Centre has been unveiled, adding two MRI scanners and more treatment rooms, with construction starting in 2027 and the upgraded centre opening in spring/summer 2028.

CHORAL, Leeds' child health research organisation, has appointed Professor Niina Kolehmainen as its first clinical academic health and care professions' chair, bringing two decades of clinical and research experience from Newcastle University.

A pioneering self-request chest X-ray service in Leeds is helping catch lung cancer earlier, Consultant Radiologist Dr Bobby Bhartia says, as the disease remains Yorkshire's biggest cancer killer.

Aji, co-founder of Leeds Teaching Hospitals' Globally Trained Nurses Forum, has won the trust's Leadership in Practice Award 2026, recognising a career that began in Kerala, India and now spans bereavement care and staff advocacy in Leeds.