The Hospital Broadcasting Association, of which Radio Horton, the hospital, health and wellbeing broadcaster for North Oxfordshire, is a member, has recently published an independent evaluation of the impact of hospital, health and wellbeing broadcasting in the UK.
This study involved patients and their families, clinical, administrative and management staff in hospitals alongside volunteers from hospital, health and wellbeing broadcasting stations including Radio Horton.
The research revealed that alongside a huge impact on volunteers, NHS staff and the wider community, stations such as Radio Horton have a positive impact on the psychosocial health outcomes for patients; provide much needed social interaction and a sense of calm and reassurance; and help people to feel like an individual, while enhancing health and wellbeing.
Ann Dunn, Chair of Radio Horton said: “The media landscape is changing the way people access radio. In an increasingly crowded market, it’s important that Radio Horton continues to remain relevant and expand the ways in which audiences listen. This latest research captures some of the key shifts shaping that evolution.”
“While our main focus is still on supporting patients in the Horton Hospital, more NHS care is now being moved into community settings such as in patients’ homes or urgent care centres, and we are providing for this by being fully accessible over the internet. To listen to Radio Horton in this way just ask your smart speaker to play Radio Horton.
For a copy of the report please email [email protected]
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