Seventy-seven runners step up to mark 77 years of the NHS

Seventy-seven runners and walkers took on an epic stair-climbing challenge at Watford FC’s Vicarage Road Stadium on Saturday 5 July – a fitting number to mark the 77th birthday of the NHS. Organised jointly by West Herts Hospitals Charity and Watford FC’s Community Sports and Education Trust, the Step Up challenge aims to raise funds […]

Former patient funds groundbreaking surgical training programme

Thanks to the generosity of former patient Linda Pottinger, four Theatre Scrub Practitioners are now training as robotic bedside assistants under the new Surgical First Assistant Programme. After undergoing lifesaving surgery for bowel cancer at Watford General in 2023, Linda Pottinger raised over £13,000 by walking 33 miles in a day for West Herts Hospitals […]