YOUR VIEW

Today we hear from Paul Wharton, head of volunteering at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

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FROM driving patients to hospital to offering bedside emotional support, our volunteers make a huge difference to our patients, staff and visitors.

We welcome applications for volunteering from across our community and know volunteers bring a diversity of experience and skills that add more value to our services.

Our volunteering roles are varied, interesting and rewarding. They include things like meeting and greeting patients and visitors, driving patients to and from hospital, befriending, talking and listening to patients, supporting patients during mealtimes, delivering medication to patients and much, much more, as we look to expand the support our volunteers offer.