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What is hospital radio? What songs are played? Top 40 listener requests Top 40
News Come and meet us at Runcorn Hill Park Summer Fete on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 July 2017 - see Events Two easy ways of giving to Radio Halton:
1 - Virgin Money Giving Radio Halton has a page on Virgin Money Giving. You can make a donation using Virgin Money Giving Just click the link or the logo 2 - Collection boxes Find out more about donations in coins via our blue collection boxes in the local area around Runcorn by clicking Donations
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John is a health walks leader, who supports peope to improve their health and wellbeing He helped Murdishaw Health Centre put into practice a GP health walk referral scheme He
assessed suitable walk routes and now leads walks, taking time to sit
and have a cuppa and chat with patients in teh health centre
Throughout the Super League season, we'll be bringing you commentary of Widnes Vikings home games in partnership with our fellow volunteers at Radio General in Warrington Hospital. This is thanks to the IT team at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who have enabled us to relay Radio General's commentary via the Trust's intranet
Thursday 20 July at the Halliwell Jones Stadium Warrington Wolves against Widnes Vikings Kick off is 8 o'clock (20:00) on Radio Halton on channel 3
- Streaming - new URL address http://D-5Q19RG2:8080 plug in your earphones or a set of computer speakers and we're with you all day Runcorn Hill Park Summer Fete on 29 and 30 July 2017
Put the dates in your diay for Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 July, when there'll be a Summer Fete in Runcorn Hill Park
You can come along to our Radio Halton stall and have a chat about what we do in hospital radio in Halton
We'll be running our "prize-winning" tombola and you have the opportunity to buy one of our
new-for-2017 Radio Halton T-shirts!
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 Currently, 12
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. This week we've been adding
some songs patients have asked for that weren't on our
system:
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, the late Dave Swarbrick said, "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
He talked to Sandra Currie who is a professional singer, and he played songs from the CD she's recorded
She takes a supply of tambourines and maracas with her to care homes, for residents to join in with the music To find out more, go to her website www.sandracurrie.com or find her facebook page: search for Sandra Currie Care Home Entertainer
The interview was broadcast on
their Monday evening programme between 7 and 9pm on Monday 12 December
2016 and you can hear the jingle they kindly did for Julie and Dave to
use on air here
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You can hear Radio Halton 
Our volunteers visit patients on the
wards and chat with them to help them relax. We find out what music
they
like, then play it for them when we get back to the studio 
...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:
On Thursday 26
January 2017, 
who is the 
Another new volunteer, Paula McCabe, started training in February 2017
on a Thursday evening between 6 and 8pm. She visits the wards
and is learning how to work the studio equipment too
19 July
2017