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Broadcasting to the Patients and Staff of Halton General Hospital  -  Playing The Best Music Variety from the 50's to Today

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Radio Halton: Hospital Radio for Runcorn & Widnes

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The NHS will be 60 years old  this year and there's a special week of celebrations from 29 June to 5 July 2008.  Keep an ear out for songs and memories on Radio Halton from 1948!

Following 3 weeks or so in March 2008 without any output at all, we're back on air again thanks to broadcast engineer Ian Hilton from Wire FM.  Ian carried out tests and found the power supply unit to be the culprit that let us down.  He's fixed it and reinstalled it for us, so normal service is resumed and we have

  • BBC Radio 2 on channels 1 and 2

  • Radio Halton followed by Real  Radio on channels 3 and 4

Thanks also to Highfield Male Voice Choir for their generous and surprise donation - See Donations Page  for more

Once a month on Thursdays between 10 and 1, Dave Broomhall chatted to Claire Lyons.  She's the Consumer Protection Officer from Halton Consumer Protection Service.   She answered questions on his programme about consumer issues which affect us all

We are in the process of redesigning our website and stationery with a new logo, kindly designed for us by graphic designer Jason Hill - Susie O'Keefe's boyfriend.  We hope to launch the new site by July 08

David Holland and Sue Sheppard from Social Services dropped into Jim Wood's programme on Wednesday 22 August to talk about hidden Carers in Halton

 *NEW* REQUEST CHART to March 08:

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Trainees Roger Sloan, Margaret Longworth Josh Powell are nearing completion of their training.   Samantha Yarwood began her training in April 2008

We are slowly getting used to the new music playout software on our specially built studio PC.  Radio General's Keith Inman has helped us set it up so it talks to the mixing desk.  Grateful thanks for his assistance!  More on the Our Studio Page

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Radio Halton provides a music and information service to the patients, staff and visitors of Halton General Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire (UK), within North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

We have a small but dedicated and patient-focused team of volunteers who visit the wards of Halton General Hospital.  The frequency of ward visits varies, depending on other demands in the lives of the volunteers who give up their spare time to help.  We have no paid staff

The photo below is Entrance 2 - to find Radio Halton, go in via Entrance 2 and turn right immediately -

Halton General Hospital Entrance 2 - Our studio is just out of shot on the right!we're at the right hand edge of this picture on the lower level:  directional signs will help you find us

 

 

Radio Halton began broadcasting in 1986 and we typically broadcast live programmes 12 hours a day, supplying a wide range of music to cater for most tastes.  Patients can access music on bedside headsets during the night if sleep is difficult

As well broadcasting to the wards on channel 3, we can also be heard via speakers in three Out-patient clinics, X-Ray, ECG Waiting Area plus the Tea Bar area at the front of the hospital (Entrance 1)

If we raise enough funds, we hope to extend the service to other areas of the hospital in the future, including the Day Case Unit, the Delamere Centre and more

We are run by an Executive Committee of Trustees which meets 6 times per year.  The Committee currently has 4 members

We also hold a number of general meetings, with the whole membership able to discuss ideas and plans for the future.  Help from donors enables us to maintain and update the ageing equipment

What is hospital radio? 

for general info from the Hospital Broadcasting Association, visit the home page of their website via this link: HBA link to their home page

To find out about joining the team at Radio Halton, click here for the Contact Us page and let's chat by phone or e-mail

Find out more about how you can give to us on the Donations page

Top 20 requests January to March 2008

Position Artist Title
1 Drifters Up on the roof
2 Highfield Male Voice Choir Music of the night
3 Take That Shine
4 Danny Williams Moon river
5 Sting Fields of gold
6 Bachelors Charmaine
7 Elvis Presley The wonder of you
8 Eva Cassidy Over the rainbow
9 Sydney Devine Nobody's child
10 Westlife Queen of my heart

 

Mark Snowdon from Radio General in Warrington has produced a national chart for hospitals in the UK for 2007.  Ol' Frankie is back at number 1 again, but not with the same tune at number one in our latest chart..... see if you can guess before you click the link below...

Take a look at the national hospital radio chart for 2007 at http://www.requestcharts.org.uk 

Updated by:  The Webmistress purple spider3 May 2008