Hundreds of patients have rated their experience at the Royal Stoke University Hospital highly, according to a latest survey. A total of 444 adults who were inpatients at both the Royal Stoke and County Hospital in November 2023 completed the questionnaire. They rated their overall experience with University Hospitals of …
Read More »Royal Stoke doctors fly out to remote island to answer life-saving plea
Four highly-experienced Royal Stoke doctors responded to a plea for help from a remote island in order to provide essential care due to a lack of trained anaesthetists. St Helena, a remote British overseas territory west of mainland Africa, had requested the help of anaesthetists across the UK to maintain …
Read More »Crash claims life of driver and puts passenger in Royal Stoke
A two-car crash has claimed the life of a driver and left a passenger in Stoke-on-Trent’s main hospital. Police, firefighters, paramedics were called to the crash on Rawnsley Road, in Staffordshire, on Sunday night. An air ambulance landed as part of the emergency services response. A West Midlands Ambulance Service …
Read More »Coma-hit Royal Stoke patient has ‘£5.7k plundered from account’
A patient has told how she has had £5,700 plundered from her bank account – after her phone and purse were last seen at a hospital. Epileptic Abbey Carter, from Smallthorne, ended up in a coma at the Royal Stoke University Hospital after suffering a seizure. The 29-year-old says she …
Read More »Police block part of Potteries Way roundabout as driver taken to Royal Stoke
One lane of a busy roundabout remains coned off this afternoon after a crash. Sand has been put down on the carriageway and cobbles have been displaced on the roundabout linking Waterloo Road, Potteries Way and Hope Street, in Hanley. The temporary repair work means traffic travelling down Waterloo Road …
Read More »Driver in Royal Stoke after crashing into wall
A driver has needed hospital treatment after crashing into a wall. Paramedics treated the casualty after being called to Main Road, in Betley, at 6.58pm last night. Staffordshire Police closed part of Main Road – near East Lawns – following the collision. StokeonTrentLive has approached the force for a statement …
Read More »Reggie, 3, given Royal Stoke cancer bombshell after GP sends him home
The parents of a three-year-old boy are enduring a ‘living nightmare’ – after seeing their loved-one struck down with cancer. Little Reggie Bebbington was taken to a GP after a lump appeared on his belly earlier this year. But when the GP could not identify the problem dad Kane Billington …
Read More »Royal Stoke ‘scandal’ as gran, 72, has brain op cancelled twice
A daughter has slammed the treatment of her 72-year-old mum – after having an operation to remove her brain tumour cancelled twice. Disabled Mary Clews was diagnosed with the benign brain tumour on August 21 after she went to A&E following two seizures. But despite being admitted to the Royal …
Read More »More than 270 A&E patients left waiting over 12 hours in just one month
More than 270 patients had to wait over 12 hours to be admitted to the University Hospitals of North Midlands as emergency cases last month. The number of 12-hour emergency waits at the NHS trust more than doubled in October, from 127 to 278, as A&E departments at Royal Stoke, …
Read More »Royal Stoke mum gave birth to ‘miracle baby’ – now she wants Government action
A mum who has defied medics to deliver a ‘miracle baby’ at Stoke-on-Trent’s main hospital is on a collision course with the Government. Joanne Cole became one of the first women in the world to get pregnant and conceive with motor neurone disease (MND) when she gave birth to Sebastian …
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