Royal Stoke University Hospital
Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
Subscribe
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
Angry patients and relatives have lodged 726 formal complaints against Staffordshire s two main hospitals.
They were lodged in 2019/20 and represent an 8.5 per cent increase on the previous 12-month period.
A grandmother recovering from spinal surgery will walk 11 miles along the coast to support people diagnosed with a rare disorder. The distance from Rhyl to Colwyn Bay is the longest Lisa Jones, 48, has trekked for some years and will be made harder by her arthritis amid the cold January weather. She hopes to raise donations for the charity Amy and Friends, set up on behalf of Amy Garton-Hughes, from Flintshire, who died from cockayne syndrome aged 28. Amy died on January 1 this year from the recessive DNA condition, which stopped her from walking at the age of 18 due to physical growth problems and severe pain.
What does one million square feet of empty space look like? Anyone who stepped inside the NHS Nightingale Hospital in East London yesterday will know only too well.
The facility, constructed under military supervision inside the ExCel conference centre in April, is no longer there; no equipment, no staff and certainly no patients.
‘It’s closing down,’ a security guard told us.
Even without venturing through the entrance, that much was obvious. An NHS road sign initially erected to direct ambulances arriving at the site could be seen lying beside a wall, and dozens of partition walls some with NHS labels attached were dumped in a storage pen.
Coronavirus survivor Jason Grant
Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
Subscribe
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
More than 2,000 Covid-19 patients have been discharged from the area s two biggest hospitals after being struck down with coronavirus.
William-Hugh Thomas Lamberton, the first baby born at the Royal Stoke on Christmas Day
Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.
Subscribe
When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice
New mum Tiegan Lamberton was overjoyed to end 2020 on a happy note by welcoming her first baby on Christmas Day.