Harrogate music event praised for making 'life changing differences to patients' with new hospital scanner

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Vinyl Sessions has raised more than £10,000 for equipment to enhance patient care not available from NHS funding since it was first launched nearly three years ago.

The bulk of the money donated from its classic rock album events so far has gone towards a new maternity ultrasound scanner which has had an enormous positive impact for pregnant patients.

Sammy Lambert, Business Development, Charity and Volunteer manager for Harrogate Hospital & Community Charity, said: "This immense donation has provided additional ultrasound facilities for the department, enhancing the clinical environment and patient experience.

"You have helped make life-changing differences to patients and their families across HDFT."

As a result of the new Innosight scanner at Harrogate Hospital, not only can mums-to-be now be diagnosed in a single visit to the hospital instead of three hitherto, giving greater peace of mind, but more people can be scanned in total.

The new scanner also releases some 30 ultrasound appointments in Harrogate Hospital's Radiology Department for other patients.

Allison Amin, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Harrogate Hospital said: "The doctors and midwives in the Antenatal Clinic would sincerely like to offer their grateful thanks for the extremely generous donation of the portable ultrasound scanner for use in their department.

"This will have an enormous impact in the care that they deliver to pregnant patients.

"Early confirmation of diagnosis/presentation will allay fears and anxieties for women and will allow community midwives to progress with preparations for home birth.

"The scanner will definitely improve patient care and promote natural and home birth services resulting in a positive impact.

"This will also have the impact on reducing significant time in making a diagnosis time.

"The scan can be done at the same time as the clinic consultation and the patient avoids having to wait for a formal scan in the radiology department.

"Patients will avoid having to make an extra journey for another appointment to Radiology and therefore their comfort, privacy and dignity is maintained whilst the diagnosis is speedier with a significant reduction in anxiety."

The Vinyl Sessions team of founder Colin Paine, video curator Jim Dobbs and pop expert Graham Chalmers of the Harrogate Advertiser started off the classic albums sessions in person at Starling Independent Bar Cafe Kitchen in Harrogate but have gone digital since the Covid pandemic began.

Previous Vinyl Sessions events have featured bestselling albums from the 1960s to late 1990s including Led Zeppelin IV, ELO’s Out of The Blue, Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, The Beatles Sgt Pepper, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, The Who’s Who’s Next, Oasis’s What’s The Story, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Blondie’s Parallel Lines.

Vinyl Sessions organiser Colin Paine now intends to back a new initiative by Harrogate Hospital & Community Charity with proceeds from future events.

The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Cancer Centre (SROMC) was largely provided from non-NHS funding and has been an enormous success for local cancer patients.

Initially, it opened covering a restricted range of cancers but has expanded considerably in recent years saving patients trips to St James' Hospital in Leeds.

With expansion has come the need to reconfigure the internal space and there are plans to convert two adjacent storerooms into a consulting room;

For more information, visit:

https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/hhcc/

www.vinylsessions.org

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