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Patient story: “The police asked how far away we were…it was as bad as I feared”

Ask any parent to share their biggest fear when it comes to their children and the chances are, you’ll find a common theme - a dreaded phone call from the police.

For Peter Freeman, however, it was not the phone call that burned into his memory, instead it was the moment he arrived at the hospital after his 17-year-old daughter’s car crash in 2010. Thankfully, despite two broken legs, a fractured pelvis and, most significantly, a traumatic brain injury, Nicola survived. While the initial shock may have been behind them, the Freemans’ ordeal had just begun.
By |2023-11-06T09:47:46+00:0020 March 2023|News, Patient stories|

“For what we have to do, the sector is vastly underpaid, and for that we feel massively undervalued”: The truth of being a clinical support worker on a stroke ward

Here, a clinical support worker who works on a stroke [...]

By |2023-12-19T14:49:07+00:0016 March 2023|Stroke|
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