The Royal Bolton Hospital has welcomed David Cameron's focus on quality nursing care and is pleased its nurses are already carrying out many of the actions he is recommending.
Date: 06.01.12

In view of the recent concerns about PIP silicone gel breast implants, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust would like to reassure patients and public that these implants have never been used at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
Date: 09.01.12

Women receiving treatment for breast cancer at the Royal Bolton Hospital are benefitting from new equipment worth over £70k. thanks to former patient Debbie Dowie.
Date: 30.01.12

Consultant Nurse Veronica Hall has been nominated in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nursing Awards 2012.
Date: 06.02.12

Bolton based physiotherapist Michelle Angus has a special reason for looking forward to this year's Olympic Games - she is going to be part of Team GB's support staff.
Date: 10.02.12

We are one of a number of North West hospitals taking part in a project to be open and transparent about how we are doing in important areas of patient safety and quality of care.
Date: 28.02.12

Inpatient children’s and maternity services at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, have now closed and instead pregnant women can choose whether to have their baby at North Manchester or here at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
Date: 07.03.12

The Trust now has a seven day hospital alcohol nursing team. This is in order to ensure all patients admitted with an alcohol related illness to receive appropriate support and management.
Date: 09.03.12

Mark Harrison, Controller of Production for BBC North, has been appointed as a Non Executive Director on the Board at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.
Date: 12.03.12

SMOKING can cause blindness, and thanks to the efforts of a top Bolton doctor this warning will soon be on cigarette packets in the UK.
Date: 14.03.12

Annual Remembrance Service for Babies and Children

To be held on Sunday 25th March 2012 at 2.00pm. In the Staff Restaurant, First Floor, E Block, Royal Bolton Hospital. Crèche facilities are available for young children.
Date: 14.03.12

The Trust's pioneering, multidisciplinary and highly regarded approach to caring for patients with alcohol-related illness has been highlighted in local and national media, in the wake of the recent publication of the Government's alcohol strategy.
Date: 29.03.12

Patients in Bury have voted the Royal Bolton Hospital their best local NHS hospital.
Date: 02.04.12

We have developed a directory of the Trust’s Clinical Leads. These are senior consultants who each lead a particular specialty.
Date: 13.04.12

Retired Royal Bolton Hospital surgeon Graham Ostick and his wife Glenda are again opening their beautiful garden in Bradshaw to raise money for charity.
Date: 23.04.12

A nurse practitioner from the Royal Bolton Hospital has been nominated for a national award after outstanding praise for her work.
Date: 27.04.12

The Children's' Respiratory Nurses from the Paediatric Community Nursing service and the Adult Respiratory Nurses from the Royal Bolton Hospital will be in the Marketplace Shopping Centre Bolton on 'World Asthma Day' Tuesday 1st of May 2012 to provide information, help and advice for shoppers, to help them to 'CONTROL THEIR ASTHMA'
                        Date: 27.04.12

Carole Waterhouse has been shortlisted as the British Journal of Midwifery's Community Midwife of the Year just weeks before she is due to retire.
Date: 27.04.12

Hundreds of extra parking spaces are being provided at the Royal Bolton Hospital as part of a strategy to reduce pressure on existing car parks.
Date: 01.05.12

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has beaten stiff competition to win the European Process Excellence Award for Best Mature Improvement Programme.
Date: 02.05.12

CPA is a means to accredit clinical pathology services and external quality assessment schemes (EQA).
Date: 04.05.12

An award winning artist has started work at the Royal Bolton Hospital in a project aimed at bringing greater understanding of dementia.
Date: 04.05.12

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is forming a unique partnership with Eastern Health in Australia, so the two organisations can learn from each other to help improve patient care.
Date: 08.05.12

The CHKS 40 Top Hospitals celebrate excellence and are based on the evaluation of 23 key performance indicators covering safety, clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care.
                        Date: 09.05.12

A number of local health services will be moving into Bolton One in the town centre during May and June.
Date: 09.05.12

Four years after teenager Jonathan Sharples died in a car accident his parents returned to the Royal Bolton Hospital's A and E Department to formally open a new relatives' room.
Date: 11.05.12

Carole Waterhouse has been named as joint winner of the British Journal of Midwifery’s Community Midwife of the Year just weeks before she is due to retire.
Date: 11.05.12