Sophie Siddall, hospital volunteer A mother has thanked hospital volunteer Sophie Siddall for giving her hope again. Feeling devastated after being told her daughter would not attend mainstream school due to disabilities, the local resident then vis ...
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Families and colleagues thank midwife
Families and colleagues have thanked a UHNM midwife for her calm and caring approach. Patience Munyikwa, who comes from Zimbabwe, has been a midwife for seven years. Having started as a nurse in intensive care, she then had a change of heart and deci ...
UHNM diabetes nurse helps lead award-winning engagement programme
A UHNM nurse specialist has helped to lead an award-winning project which helps people with diabetes. Tamsin Fletcher-Salt (pictured) worked virtually with a multidisciplinary team through the earlier stages of the pandemic to create ‘Diabetes 101’ - ...
Staff nurse steps up to enhance fracture clinic care
A staff nurse has been thanked for helping to enhance the quality of care in the fracture clinic. Abigail Benentt stepped up to help and has excelled in her new role. The fracture clinic team have also recently achieved a ‘gold’ CEF (Care Excellence ...
Radiographer thanked for helping to save patient's life
A patient’s life was saved recently, thanks to the expertise and fast action of one of UHNM’s radiographers. Sophie Vaux, CT advanced practice radiographer in radiology, quickly identified a life-threatening abnormality during a scan and promptly mad ...
Almost 4,000 calls to Consultant Connect
During the last 12 months almost 4,000 calls have been made by GPs requiring rapid access to specialty opinions from UHNM consultants in a bid to help avoid unnecessary attendances to emergency departments and hospital admission. Outcomes have been ...
UHNM dermatologist delivers premature baby mid-air on India flight
Dr Manju is pictured at the rear of the group in white PPE A University Hospital of North Midlands consultant who answered the call for a doctor on board has helped deliver a premature baby mid-air on a flight to India. Dr Manju Paul, consultant de ...
UHNM junior doctors ranked as 'best prepared in the UK'
UHNM has been thanked by education partners Keele University after the cohort of medical students who started work as Foundation Year 1 doctors in August were ranked as the best prepared in the UK, according to GMC data on FY1 preparedness. Keele wa ...