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 ...
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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 ...
UHNM to contribute to NHS green savings
The UHNM Green Plan is set to play its part in helping the NHS cut more than 1m tonnes of C02 emissions in the next three years – the equivalent of taking 520,000 cars off the road. One of more than 200 new green plans put forward by NHS trusts acro ...
Respiratory and sleep physiology patients to receive more holistic care
Ian Cliff, head of the respiratory and sleep physiology department at UHNM Patients will receive more holistic care thanks to the work of a clinical scientist at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM). Ian Cliff, head of the respira ...