Royal Bolton Hospital - Bolton

Shabaan Banana

I recently had a procedure at the Day Care Surgical Unit at Bolton Hospital, and I can’t praise the team highly enough. From the moment I arrived, the staff made me feel welcome and at ease. The Doctors, nurses, student nurses, porters, theatre staff, were incredibly attentive and compassionate, ensuring that I was comfortable throughout my stay.

After the surgery, I was pleasantly surprised by the lovely cup of tea and toast, which was a comforting touch that made the experience even better.

Overall, the care I received was exceptional, and I’m grateful to everyone at the unit for their professionalism and kindness. Highly recommended!

Anne

I was in Bolton Hospital yesterday for a minor op. My experience from start to finish was flawless. The receptionist , the nurses both on the ward and in recovery were amazing. The aneathisist and Consultant made me feel so at ease and explained everything to me. The ward was spotless. This is not my first op there but definitely the smoothest stay I’ve had. Thank you everyone x

The Left Mouse Button

Feels kinda strange giving a review on a hospital, if you need to go you aren't going to read the reviews first you just go. Despite that I feel obligated to express how brilliant the service I was given here was. Every single member of staff I talked to was so kind, respectful, understanding and clear with me. Everybody treated me so well and patiently despite the clear stress the healthcare sector is under. Incredibly pleasant experience despite going through surgery. The theatre and a&e nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, receptionists even the students blew me away with their expert care. I couldn't list them all out but I will say one Francis Andrews was a saint and put real effort in making sure I was comfortable.
Thank you all ?

Christine Lewis

My 92 year old mum lives in Salford but was at my sister’s house in Little Lever yesterday when she had an episode of collapse. My sister was advised to take her to the nearest A&E which was Bolton. I just wanted to say that the staff were amazing with mum. From the speed of getting her sorted and the professionalism of the staff. She was treated with dignity and respect. Hopefully she will be back home with us soon. Thank you all.

Pete Taylor

The staff at the hospital are amazing! Especially the management and staff on ward A4! Professional , respectful , friendly, helpful. There's not enough words to praise all of them from the managers to the HCA's out standing!

PaulG

Last week, I had surgery at Bolton Royal Hospital, and I would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone in the Surgical Unit, Ward E3 and the Discharge Suite. To all the porters, clinicians, doctors, and nurses who attended to me, you were amazing. Thank you!

Kennedy Sutton

My grand son was born 6 months premature, he survived just over a month and then mysteriously died, because of some story they made up that don’t make any sense. My son and his gf were both convinced that the nurses did everything they could, but I don’t see it that way at all!

I saw the baby myself, many times, and the baby was a strong baby, a fighter, and was improving fast, he had an oxygen pipe going into his lungs to help his longs breath, as the baby was to small to breath on its own, and the nurses had to keep turning the baby every now and again.

I believe with all certainty that one of those nurses made a mistake and they as ruff that killed my grand son, by moving the pipe that went and logged itself into the baby’s lungs, and damaged something inside that made the baby die!

Why I came to this conclusion? Simply because when me and my son got there, the nurse were acting very weird, being nice about things but in a very fairy tale way, which defo made me wonder!

They way they were talking to a dead baby, like as if it was still alive was weird, and the way they were telling my son to take his dead baby outside to see the stars and smell the fresh air, was not normal, and from my experience with people, they will go to the extremes of being nice etc, just to cover up their mistakes, cause let’s face it, if they did mess up? They would most certainly not tell anyone it’s their fault, and would even go that extra mile of being nice to cover up their wrongs, as non of them want to be blamed for any misconduct.

But when people start to act abnormal, and start talking to a dead baby like as if it’s still alive etc? Then u got to believe something is not right here, even my son had to say to me that all the acting they were doing, don’t feel right!

My son and his gf are convinced that they did everything they could, so they didn’t want to go any further, but I know if he had have demanded an X-ray, they evidence will be there onto what actually happened!

The nurses tried to say that the baby moved, and logged the air pipe into his own lungs, which I know is impossible, simply because he was to small to move himself anyhow, as the nurses had to keep moving him, so that story don’t make any sense at all!

I believe when they loved the baby, they were ruff and logged the pipe into his longs when moving him, which caused him to die!

When you try and cover up a story, and start making everything like it’s a fairy tale, ( not real), then u can be curtain that someone is covering up the truth, cause they would never want to be blamed for any death, cause that can cause trouble for them etc. I ain’t no fool, I can see straight past the bullshit, and I totally believed they caused my grandsons death, cause the baby cannot move himself at that 6 months premature, that is a fact, so their story is a lie!

This is why I don’t trust any doctor or nurse, cause they all cover up each others mistake as a team, and they do things according to protocols and policies, not intuition, emotions and feelings, cause to them, it’s just a job!

I know the truth, and if the X-ray was developed, I bet the facts of what I’m saying would show the truth that I’m right! I can tell when someone is lying, but this has made me distrust them even more, just the same as that fake Covid they all believed in, a governments agenda to commit genocide upon the people to depopulate the planet, these people don’t care, just go according to protocol period, not common sense!

Belief is the enemy of knowing, that’s a fact! And when you believe to much into fairy tales like these nurses obviously do, and making as if a dead baby can see the stars, or breath fresh air when it’s dead, even talking to the baby as if it’s alive, putting teddy bears etc in a cote with the baby etc, it’s pure madness!!!

They killed my grand son and won’t admit it knowing that it could all come back into them, so my question is, how many more baby’s have they done this to? And how many more will dies in such mysterious circumstances, before someone starts speaking out?

A WS

My family and I have had to use the Royal Bolton Hospital several times for various reasons over the past year.
A&E is appalling. We've had to visit 3 times recently with the same issue.
The first time was an exhausting 18 hour visit - 12 hours for the initial chat with a thankfully very helpful nurse and then 6 more hours to have tests. It was SO busy and chaotic which clearly wasn't the staff's fault at all but it could be managed better. For instance, they shout you twice and if you don't reply the second time they take you off the list. Once you realise this has happened to you and you tell them, they put you back on but you have to wait longer then. Fair enough BUT some of the staff call your name out so quietly that you can't possibly hear them, especially if you're hard of hearing. This was happening all the time we were there on all three occasions. I saw elderly people dozing in hospital chairs who were unaware their names were being called. They were still there when we left.
The second was only a 4 hour visit but a complete waste of time. The receptionist, triage nurse and person doing blood tests were great but the doctor acted as though he really couldn't be bothered and gave no advice for a serious issue.
The third visit was fairly quick and the staff were helpful and the patient was eventually admitted into a ward. We're very grateful that we got a different team who took the issue seriously.
We've also had two inpatient visits for 2 different issues. Both times the staff were fantastic. The first visit was on a very busy ward and the only problem here was that the nights were very noisy. Not great when you're trying to recover.
The second visit was on D3 and all the staff there were wonderful.
Car parking is a huge problem and quite expensive if you have to visit a lot. It's run by Parking Eye who are an awful company making a fortune out of handing out PCN's to vulnerable people. Even the staff have issues with parking. Genuine mistakes leading to a PCN can be sorted by the hospital but it's not something you want to be bothered with when you're sick or a carer. Shame on whoever gave them the contract.
Food - there's a shop, a small cafe, a restaurant (limited opening times) and a few drinks/snack machines dotted about but if you have dietary needs you might be limited so take your own food.
Overall, it's a very busy, large hospital with some fantastic staff once you get in but good luck with parking and A&E!