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Grandmother feels like “a new woman” following robotic surgery to remove rare tumour

From left: Carol Burt, Mr Anurag Golash and Rennett Burt Family have described how 84-year-old grandmother Rennett Burt is like “a new woman” following robotic surgery to remove a rare tumour. Rennett and her daughter have today thanked doctors at U ...

Audit team helping to improve cardiology care

UHNM’s audit team are helping to improve cardiology care for patients. The team produce patient questionnaires relating to quality of life, patient satisfaction and other patient-facing information. The feedback gathered is used to audit patient expe ...

Wife of architect featured in 999:Critical Condition urges people to register for organ donation

The wife of a Chester architect who suffered a fatal head injury after falling down the stairs today urged more people to sign up for the NHS Organ Donor Register after viewers watched his story on Channel 5’s 999:Critical Condition, filmed at Univer ...

New 'Changing Place' toilet opened at County Hospital

Thousands of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are to benefit from a newly refurbished ‘Changing Place’ toilet at County Hospital thanks to funding from UHNM Charity. The large space is equipped with changing benches and hoists ...

Staff excel in care for Haemodialysis patients

Staff in UHNM’s haemodialysis units went “above and beyond” to ensure that patients remained safe recently. The water plant at County Hospital stopped working over the Easter Bank Holiday, causing disruption to normal care. However, the team sprang i ...

999: Critical Condition: Life-saving operation to remove huge rare tumour found by chance

A Staffordshire grandfather who had life-saving emergency surgery to remove a huge tumour from his stomach is set to feature in the next episode of 999: Critical Condition – filmed exclusively at Royal Stoke University Hospital. Nigel Brammer, who l ...

Patients seen more quickly thanks to occupational therapy teamwork

Patients are being seen more quickly thanks to innovative measures by UHNM’s occupational therapy team. Staff have implemented a new priority system to ensure patient referrals are triaged and actioned in a timely manner. They have also set up a comm ...

Father survives fall down concrete stairwell following bleed on the brain

A father-of-two who survived a fall down a concrete stairwell following a potentially fatal bleed on the brain at his home is to appear in 999:Critical Condition – the powerful and award-winning documentary series which follows teams from University ...

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