Our Hospitals

The University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust provides general hospital services that all district hospitals provide, as well as being a specialist hospital in the West Midlands providing highly specialist services such as heart (cardiac and cardiothoracic) surgery, brain surgery (neurosurgery), cancer services, renal and dialysis as well as specialist services and care for children. The Trust is also the major centre for treating trauma and emergency patients, seeing over 100,000 patients a year within our Emergency Care Centre.

As a local hospital we provide the very best standards of care for our patients and are proud of our clinicians and the care they provide. We continue to have one of the lowest hospital mortality (death) rates across the whole of the West Midlands, and the midwives and doctors in our Maternity Services have helped us to achieve the best quality service, one of only 12 Hospitals nationally.

The Trust has 1,250 beds and employs almost 7000 staff.

In 2003 we became a centre for teaching and training doctors working with Keele University, and the Trust has been for some time involved with Keele and Staffordshire University in teaching and training nurses, midwives and physiotherapists.

In partnership with a local regeneration initiative, we have developed a nationally acclaimed Healthcare Career and Skills Academy; this allows us to develop our skilled support staff who are vital in helping us to deliver the best service for patients.