North Staffordshire GP Federation

17/07/2025

Student Nurse’s from Keele & Staffordshire University have undertaken a primary care placement, learning clinical skills and delivering NHS Health Checks to Stoke on Trent patients with the support from Kelly Bloor (North Staffs GP Federation) & Maria Pickford (Staffordshire Training Hub)

09/07/2025

On 26 June we held our 'Your Federation' Practice Engagement event at Bet 365 Stadium. It was great to see so many of our member practices attend along with colleagues from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB. Thank you to all those who attended and a special thank you to our guest speaker Dr Amar Ahmed, who delivered an insightful presentation on AI in General Practice.

21/02/2025

Between our Enhanced Access, Winter Hub, Meir Park practice and Homeless Health services we will have seen and treated 956 patients in total between Friday and Saturday.

Thank you to all clinical, management and administration staff - great job for our local population in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire 👏

14/01/2025

We are still accepting applications from experienced Practice Managers/Assistant Practice Managers looking to take on a new challenge. We are accepting applications via NHS Jobs, Indeed or alternatively email your CV and supporting statement to nsgpf.team@staffs.nhs.uk for the attention of Linsey McMinn. If you are interested and want an informal chat about the position please get in touch.

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13/01/2025

A busy Monday as ever at North Staffordshire GP Federation. Across our services today, our GPs and Nurses have seen 580 patients - not bad to start the week!!

07/01/2025

We're recruiting!! We are looking for an experienced Practice Manager to oversee Meir Park and Weston Coyney Medical Practice. Applications are accepted via NHS Jobs, see link below or email your CV and supporting statement to Linsey McMinn at nsgpf.team@staffs.nhs.uk

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03/01/2025

Even with New Years Day (Wednesday) off, the usual busy week at North Staffordshire GP Federation. Across our range of services, we have seen almost 3000 patients this week - and will likely see another 600 over the weekend. Thank you to all the staff involved 👏

01/01/2025

Due to a sustained increase in pressures at both Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital, Stafford, University Hospitals of North Midlands has today declared a Critical Incident.

During the festive and New Year period there has been an increase in attendances at the Emergency Departments by those who require an admission and an increasing number of patients waiting extended periods of time in the community for our services.

Declaring a critical incident enables us to take additional measures to maintain safe services for our patients and those in the community waiting for an ambulance.

We will continue to work with our NHS and local authority partners to ensure that people who need hospital and emergency care can get treatment quickly and to identify any additional support that allows us to discharge patients who do not require acute hospital care.

During this time the emergency departments will continue to see the sickest patients first, which means, for some patients, there may be much longer delays than usual.

Dr Matthew Lewis, Chief Medical Officer at UHNM said: "During the festive period, our hospitals have seen an increase in attendances and are currently extremely busy.

“Local people should still come to our Emergency Departments if they have serious, life-threatening conditions that need immediate medical attention, such as chest pain, loss of consciousness, acute confusion, severe blood loss, serious burns, broken bones, suspected stroke.

“For other conditions, Walk-in centres, GPs, Pharmacies and NHS 111 will be able to offer expert advice – often quicker and closer to home.

“People can also help by ensuring they are vaccinated against flu and Covid-19 (if eligible). Visitors should not come into hospital if they have symptoms of flu, norovirus, Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses."

We ask the public to help us by only using A&E in a serious or life-threatening emergency. It remains vital that people who need care come forward and get it in the usual way – using 999 and A&E in life-threatening emergencies and 111 for everything else.

When we’re discharging patients, we ask that their friends or loved ones pick them up from hospital as soon as possible and have everything they need at home.

Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.