Hull Hospitals and WISHH have already seen some incredible generosity from many members of the community and would like to thank all of the amazing companies, individuals and organisations who have already come forward offering support to our staff and hospitals for the care we are providing patients during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, there is still room for us to help our hospital get through this.

Thanks to the fantastic support we received as a result of this campaign, we were able to support our hospitals in a number of ways. Here are just a few of them:

* Supporting the introduction of 40 sanctuary rooms across our hospitals for staff to take time out away from the work environment and recharge, by providing distraction boxes containing mindfulness and wellbeing information, signposting and distraction activities e.g. colouring books, puzzles and snacks.

* Providing new and additional furniture for outdoor areas for staff and patients to use.

* Face, hand and barrier creams to soothe skin following continued wearing of PPE and the provision of hundreds of Wellbeing packs for staff seeking emotional support from occupational health teams and the pastoral support team. The packs included personal hygiene products, body lotions and hand creams and other goodies and a positive thank you note to recipients.

* Providing new and replacement facilities in staff rooms across our hospitals including the Queens Centre, Women and Children's Hospital, Paediatrics and other wards as well as a full refurbishment of the staff room in the Emergency Department.

* Supporting established community groups in the production of extra scrubs for Hull Hospitals clinical staff.

* Provision of iPads/tablets to enable staff to access welfare support, make contact between patients and their loved ones easier and other personal use.

* Supporting the Trust in providing free refreshments and snacks for staff across Hull Hospitals and making access to these at more locally accessible areas close to wards and departments.

* Supporting the ICU with wellbeing items and packs and the provision of IT to enable staff to access Trust mindfulness and wellbeing apps.

Thanks to your support and from funding provided by NHS Charities Together, we are able to create an incredible long term facility to support the mental health and wellbeing of hospital staff at Castle Hill Hospital. This facility will enable staff to receive the emotional and wellbeing support as they continually deal with so many difficult situations, caring for the seriously ill and their families during the pandemic and beyond. This facility will provide a lasting legacy which will help support staff, to build their emotional resilience whilst delivering great care for patients at our hospitals. We hope to create a similar facility at Hull Royal Infirmary using any further donations that we receive. Read more about the facility here.

Below is the wording from this campaign;

There are a number of ways you can help Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital and the staff who are working tirelessly on delivering care to our patients during these exceptional times.

We'd really appreciate it if you could share our page and get the word out to as many people as possible so we can really support our patients and staff in these challenging times. Please tag us in any posts @WISHHCharity #wishhappeal

* All photos taken prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you would like any more information, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, email hyp-tr.helloWISHH@nhs.net or call the WISHH team on 07827 881766 to discuss further.

You can find the latest health advice on COVID-19 at nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Donations can be marked COVID-19 STAFF if you would like your donation to be used to support the provision of additional items for the benefit of staff whilst they are caring for patients during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Alternatively, donations marked COVID-19 CARE will be used to support patient care as directed by Hull Hospitals.

Cheques can be made payable to WISHH Charity posted to the WISHH Office, COVID-19 Appeal, First Floor Administration Block, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, HU16 5JQ.

If you'd like to support our second wave appeal, click here.