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INSIGHT Project

Help us with an important research project The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) are collaborators on the INSIGHT Project. The project aims to create an awards system to celebrate health organisations promoting public involve ...

999 Critical Condition: UHNM pioneering thrombestomy service give young stroke patient back her life

UHNM’s pioneering stroke mechanical thrombectomy service has given a 38-year-old single mother her life back after she suffered a stroke in her sleep. Fiona Grant, of Wolverhampton, woke up one morning unable to speak or move her left side and was f ...

999 Critical Condition: Farmer looks on bright side and thanks UHNM after being hit by a lorry

University Hospitals of North Midlands gripping documentary continues tomorrow (Thursday) charting the life and death decisions of the clinical teams at its major trauma centre. In the fifth episode farmer Chris Jones is flown to the Royal Stoke Uni ...

Retired police officer’s death of rare cancer helping to shape care at UHNM

Richard Kelsall receiving treatment for rare form of pancreatic cancer, with wife Margaret Kelsall at his side A retired Staffordshire police officer who became the world’s longest survivor of a rare form of cancer is helping to change the future of ...

999 Critical Condition: Patient’s family warn cardiac arrest could happen to anyone

The parents of a 38-year-old social worker who tragically died following a cardiac arrest on the M6 and featured in last night’s 999 Critical Condition today spoke of their daughter’s infectious personality and warned that it could happen to anyone. ...

999: “Lucky break” after Royal Stoke midwife starts life-saving at roadside

A North Staffordshire granddad owes his life to staff at University Hospitals of North Midlands after his heart stopped following a run. The fourth episode of hit TV documentary 999 Critical Condition, filmed exclusively Royal Stoke University Hospi ...

999 Critical Condition: North Staffordshire father-of-four escapes death following cardiac arrest

A North Staffordshire father-of-four was rushed to University Hospital of North Midlands’ major trauma centre after his heart stopped and he collapsed at home. Ian Barton was found by his daughter after suffering a cardiac arrest in his Meir Heath ...

Thousands of patients benefit from virtual clinics

Pictured: Cystic Fibrosis clinical nurse specialist Laura Barlow using the 'Attend Anywhere' system Thousands of patients across multiple specialties are benefitting from virtual clinics. The ‘Attend Anywhere’ (AA) system enables patients and clinic ...

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