Our Causes

The Adult Diabetes Service is based at Harrogate District Hospital (HDH) and includes a variety of healthcare professionals providing specialist care and support to people with diabetes on an inpatient and outpatient basis. We provide care for adults and young people living with Type 1 diabetes, patients with Type 2 diabetes needing specialist input, renal patients, ladies with gestational diabetes or diabetes and pregnancy, inpatients and patients with foot related complications.

Our teams within Harrogate District Hospitals and the Community care and support patients approaching end of life, and those important to them across the Hospital and at home in the Harrogate and Rural locality. They are supported, when needed, by our Specialist  Palliative Care Team. We strive to provide the best quality end of life care wherever the patient is being cared for. Click here to see what your donations could fund to enhance and improve the personalised experience of end of life care across Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT).

The Great Start in Life Foundation is an arm of Harrogate Hospital & Community Charity (registered charity number 1050008), designed to support Children and Young People across our 0-19(25) Children’s Public Health Nursing Service footprint, by actively fundraising through events, projects, appeals and donations.

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) here at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) is a Level 1 special care baby unit with 7 cots. We look after babies born over 32 weeks gestation who require extra support. The nurses work alongside parents to ensure they are included in their baby’s care and encourage and support areas such as breastfeeding and skin to skin. We are currently raising money to make environmental changes to the unit. The impact of these changes would be significant for those accessing them; having a baby born with unexpected complications is very challenging for…

Woodlands Ward is a 16 bedded general paediatric ward which takes children ranging from 0-16 years of age. We see all children of any speciality such as surgery, ophthalmology, ear nose and throat etc. As the only acute paediatric unit within the Harrogate District Hospital, we want to make sure we are providing child friendly, individualised care. Recently most of our fundraised money has supported the completed artwork in the main bay areas within Woodlands Ward and within some of the side rooms. We would relish the opportunity to continue this artwork in our remaining side rooms, but do not…

Cancer Services at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) provides high quality cancer treatments and health and wellbeing services. It offers support for people affected by a cancer diagnosis in the Harrogate and District Community, as well as some patients from the North Leeds area.