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Registered Charity No 1068428
When do Radio Halton broadcast?
About 15 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 New additions include some tunes we've recently been asked for and didn't have, so we've put that right
It's slow work to get more of the older songs included - but we are getting there bit by bit Thank you Grateful thanks go to Vera W, who in Sept 2013, donated a Glenn MIller CD
to help boost our collection of classic tunes from years gone by.
There are still gaps in our music collection which we're working to fill
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
There
are loudspeakers in the outpatient clinic waiting areas and also in
Entrance 1 - nearest the busway - to help 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"
Interviews Angela Green, the FT and Communications Manager from Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust came to chat to us about that the Trust does and how we can help You'll be able to hear her talking to Pam Eastwood, during February and March 2014, about the work Bridgewater does in Halton in child health and other specialist services. She also is looking for people living in Halton to become members of that Trust - as young as 14 year olds can join, to have their say about their services too Find out more at http://www.bridgewater.nhs.uk
Long Service Certificate Presentation
Derry volunteers on three afternoons every week, and attends our regular meetings as well, which usually happen on his days off There is nothing Derry doesn't know about country music, as you'll know if you've heard his country specials between 3 and 5 each Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons Congratulations and well done Derry!
Visit from the President
She gave us some valuable advice about how we can look to the future using new technologies, and offered useful contacts who can help us Following a good chinwag at the hospital, we then decided our tummies were rumbling and adjourned to a local hostelry to continue chatting over a meal
June is celebrating 40 years in hospital radio, and she is trying to visit as many hospital stations as possible in her anniversary year. She'd already been to Clatterbridge on the Wirral earlier in the day, and was visiting Broadgreen the day after, before returning home briefly, then off again around the country! Another pic here shows June with Rob Carter and John Kenwright
Radio Halton Awareness Stall Our volunteers held an awareness stall on Tuesday 10 December 2013 We were at the entrance nearest the busway (Entrance 1) from
around lunchtime, at the Friends of Halton's Information Desk. Kind people passing dropped coins into the collection box Derry Griffiths was holding, and the amount totalled £30.55. Thank you!
Staff Health and Wellbeing Event Radio Halton took part in this event, providing music and information in the Dining Room of Halton General Hospital on Tuesday 8 October 2013. Staff who visited the various stalls around the event dropped their change into our collection box to the tune of £5.61. Thank you 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
Brindley concert tickets Kathryn from the Northern Chamber Orchestra has 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, is thrilled to be back with a delightful programme - perfect for a spring afternoon!
Vivaldi’s perennial good-mood-enhancer, The Four Seasons, played superbly by NCO’s Leader, Nicholas Ward, (pictured here) is bursting with melodic, virtuosic moments The concert also provides 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 Tickets for 18's and under are free
Northern Chamber Orchestra concert tickets Kathryn from the NCO kindly
donated 2 tickets for the Warrington Parr Hall concert at 7.30pm on Thursday 31 October 2013, which featured world famous Manchester-born pianist Peter Donohoe The programme included Shostakovich Piano Concerto no 1, also works by Tchaikovsky, Bruckner and Mozart Pam Eastwood's 'In Classical Mood' programme (Tuesday lunchtimes between 12 and 1)
held a competition for the two tickets. The
winner was Karen Williams from Physiotherapy, who was so pleased The Northern Chamber Orchestra was formed in the 1960s and has gained a formidable reputation from its engaging and exciting concerts, tackling a wide range of repertoire. The members of the orchestra are distinguished chamber musicians, who regularly appear as soloists and principal players
News
New volunteers joining our team: Mark Farrell is training with John Kenwright ... ...and ... ...Tony Knowles is beginning his training with Pam Eastwood on a Tuesday evening
National Hospital Request Chart Mark Snowdon
of Radio General in Warrington put together a national chart from
hospitals all over the UK
See 2013's Top 40 as well as past years' charts at http://www.requestcharts.org.uk
Change the world - or Runcorn at least! Our appeal for more volunteers is called "change the world" - we've put it on this page for you to hear - just click on the link above, then click your back button on your browser to return here
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You can hear Radio Halton exclusively in
Halton General Hospital 24 hours a day, as our broadcasts
continue overnight thanks to our Myriad software providing a 'round the
clock' schedule. We
have a
hard-wired system to the bedside and the speakers. We are now
able to broadcast within the hospital on the Trust intranet, so staff
in departments where there are no speakers would be able to access the
service on their workstation computers
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:
Local hypnotherapist 
that's the 
June Snowden
5 March 2014