Hospitals and nurses across the Yorkshire region are once again set to benefit from training support totalling £48,000 thanks to donations from the charitable trust of Bradford-based cash plan provider Sovereign Healthcare.

This month, six Yorkshire hospital trusts have each been awarded £8,000 to support nurses training and hospital initiatives as part of the Charitable Trust’s annual donations to health care and community organisations and charities.

The donations will benefit hospitals managed by the trusts across the Yorkshire region including Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke’s Hospital, Halifax, Huddersfield, Pinderfields, Dewsbury, Airedale and Harrogate hospitals.

Chief nurse at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sally Napper said: “This money will go towards staff training and equipment for improving and reducing pressure ulcers in patients and will predominantly be used across our elderly care wards. I would like to say thank you to Sovereign for their very generous donation.”

Russ Piper, trustee of the Charitable Trust and chief executive of Sovereign Health Care added: “We are committed to supporting the vital services provided by our regional hospitals and the excellent work of nurses; they are an essential part of our community and health care provision.”

In 2012, the Sovereign Health Care Charitable Trust has donated more than £500,000 to health related charities and good causes, and is committed to continuing this in 2013.

Over the past six years, the trust has donated in excess of £3.5 million to community and health related charities.

It is wholly funded by Sovereign Health Care, one of the UK’s longest established providers of health care cash plans to individuals and businesses.