An appeal to fund a new neonatal family room at Stevenage's Lister Hospital has so far raised £300,000 - with just £38,000 now needed for the project to begin.
Medication errors, delayed hospital admissions from the emergency department, and falls resulting in fractured bones are just some of the serious incidents recorded by the East and North Herts NHS Trust during a one-month period.
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving following a head-on collision at 110mph with a grandfather near Hexton.
A orchestral musician from Letchworth is set to hold a fundraising concert in Hitchin to raise money for Lister Hospital's neonatal unit after staff saved the life of her newborn daughter.
Bosses at Stevenage's Lister Hospital are looking at ways to speed up the time it takes to hand over patients from ambulance staff to the Emergency Department, having plummeted from being the best performer in the east of England to having less than half of cases meet national targets.