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Registered Charity No 1068428
When do Radio Halton broadcast?
The hard-wired system feeds to the bedside and the speakers. We also broadcast within the hospital via streaming on the Trust intranet, so staff in departments can access the service on their workstation computers About 10
people volunteer their time to provide the service to patients,
visitors and staff We're making
more songs available on the playlist so that the same
songs don't come round too often. These are the kind of tunes we're were asked for, but didn't
have, so
we've put that right:
In between volunteer visits, patients can use the Radio Halton freephone to request a mention or a song to help the time pass more easily
Volunteer
Rob chats to a patient
Patients can settle back into bed or an easy chair and relax to favourite music through ...
We hope to be
able to add BBC Radio Merseyside to another channel soon, depending on
the radio signal reception to ensure good quality sound
There
are loudspeakers in the outpatient clinic waiting areas and also in
Entrance 1 - nearest the busway - to help people relax whilst sitting
there Do you know someone in hospital? You can find the station that serves their hospital and request a song or send them a message. Just click on the HBA logo below to go to the site of the organisation for hospital radio in the whole of the UK
The
benefits of music in hospital Legendary folk musician Dave Swarbrick says, "Hospital radio is a fantastic service, with volunteers giving their time free to entertain patients with music. When I have been in hospital, which is quite considerable, I have been very glad of it. As a musician, you don't realise the therapeutic effect it can have until you are receiving it yourself. Without having music and great friends around me in hospital, I would have been climbing the walls. Keep up the good work" Find out more here... Why do we provide music?
"Music helps – during the times I’ve been really ill, I’ve listened to a lot of music and I find music incredibly therapeutic. There were days particularly when I was having the radiotherapy treatment and when I felt really down, and it’d give me a little bit of a lift and a buzz inside"
News - Competitions
 The Northern Chamber Orchestra are in concert at The Brindley on Sunday 8 March, when they're joined by Halton village's own Martin Roscoe.  Martin is a renowned concert pianistThe programme is one of mixed emotions, with music from 4 very different composers: Haydn's dark, dramatic Symphony no 52 in C minor, Janacek's Suite for Strings, Mozart's flamboyant Piano Concerto in A major K414 and Saint-Saëns The concert starts at 3 o'clock and tickets are avaialble at £15 for adults and only £7 for students from www.thebrindley.org.uk or from 0151 907 8360. There'll be a pair of tickets as a prize on Radio Halton's 'In Classical Mood' with Pam Eastwood on Tuesday between 12 and 1 A pair of tickets to the Classic Viennese Whirls and Waltzes concert at The Brindley was on offer as a competition prize. The competition question "who wrote the Blue Danube waltz?" was asked during the In Classical Mood programme on Tues lunchtime in early January. It was correctly answered "Johann Strauss" by Sheila McCarten who volunteers for the League of Friends on the Tea Bar at Entrance 1 of the hospital  Sheila took her fellow volunteer Dilys along to see and hear The Northern Chamber Orchestra on Sunday 25 January 2015, courtesy of Kathryn from the NCO Listen out for more popular Viennese music by Strauss and others being added to our collection <<<>>>
Highfield Male Voice Choir had their Autumn
concert on Friday 17 October 2014
at The Brindley in Runcorn. Together with the
Southport String Ensemble, they presented a varied programme of
pieces.
Peter Gilberts from the Choir gave us prizes of 5 pairs of tickets as prizes. Presenter Pam Eastwood asked a competition question on our classical music programme, "In Classical Mood" on Tuesday 14 October -"Which of these orchestral instruments belongs to the string section? is it A. The oboe, B. the cello or C. the tuba?" The winners who correctly answered "B. the cello" were Carol, Janet, Julie, Lynn and Elaine Brindley concert tickets Kathryn from the Northern Chamber Orchestra kindly donated 2 tickets for their concert on Sunday 9 March 2014 at The Brindley in Runcorn. The critically-acclaimed NCO, one of the country’s finest chamber orchestras, played a delightful programme - perfect for a spring afternoon!
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, played superbly by NCO’s Leader, Nicholas Ward, (pictured here) is bursting with melodic, virtuosic moments The concert also provided an opportunity to hear the beautiful, lyrical playing of Elizabeth Jordan, NCO’s principal clarinet, in Weber’s Clarinet Concerto – arranged from the Clarinet Quintet A lucky listener, Carol, won 2 tickets on Pam Eastwood's Tuesday lunchtime 'In Classical Mood' programme when she correctly answered the competition question, "Who wrote The Four Seasons?"
During the First Utility Super League season, you can hear match commentaries on the Widnes Vikings games These are provided by our fellow volunteers at Warrington Hospital's Radio General, then relayed to Radio Halton via the hospital trust's intranet, at no cost The next match we're covering is on Sunday 1 March 2015 at The Select Security Stadium, Widnes against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, KO 15:00 Join our presenter, who'll be on air from 14:30 on Radio Halton on Channel 3
Interviews
Awareness stall in Halton Hospital
Our volunteers will be in the corridor near to Entrance 1 (the busway end) between 10 and 2, to tell patients and visitors about the service we provide
At our latest awareness stall in Halton Hospital on 18 December 2014, our longest serving volunteer, Derry Griffiths, also welcomed donations from people who wanted to help by giving much needed coins, and £43.13 was collected - thank you so much!
Staff Health and Wellbeing Event Radio Halton are again taking part in this event, providing music and information in the Dining Room of Halton General Hospital on Thursday 26 February 2015. It's all going on from 11 till 1.30 for staff from the Halton site Last time, we
really enjoyed finding out things about healthier eating, having our
blood pressure checked and having a go on the cycling machine to see
how far we could pedal in a minute. And we equally enjoyed
explaining how we help patients by providing our ward visiting with
music and information
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You can hear Radio Halton 
Our volunteers visit patients on the
wards and chat with them to help them relax - find out what music they
like to listen to 
...the bedside headset - it's all technology
from more than 40 years ago - no wires involved here, just a pipe into
the console on the wall with a volume knob and a channel knob - so it
is literally piped music! 
Russell
Watson also told how music helped him through illness, when
chatting to Ken Bruce in Dec 2010:
We're holding an awareness stall on 
18 February 2015