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By helen June 9, 2026
New Newsletter!
By helen April 20, 2026
Charity boost as Tarantara Choir support Friends'
By helen April 16, 2026
A foyer full of frangrance
By helen April 2, 2026
Playing an important role in recovery
By helen February 26, 2026
A new Patron for the Friends'
By Friends of Stratford Hospital August 4, 2025
Friends of Stratford Hospital funded the conversion of a storeroom into an extra physiotherapy treatment room, enhancing patient privacy and increasing capacity.
A hand-held scanner for the Ophthalmology Department at Stratford Hospital funded by the Friends of
By Website Editor August 4, 2025
The Optomed Aurora scanner device funded by the Friends' has proven especially helpful in clinics serving vulnerable adults and allows the team of specialist staff to diagnose patient conditions more easily in the eye clinic.
The garden outside of the Nicol Ward, which originally opened in the mid 2000's, was in need of a re
By Friends of Stratford Hospital August 4, 2025
The garden outside of the Nicol Ward, which originally opened in the mid 2000's, was in need of a refurbishment. The work to restore the footpaths and handcraft bespoke planters was undertaken in-house by Maintenance Supervisor, Mark O'Loughlin, and funded by the Friends'. The creative planting was carried out by t

The Princess Royal officially opened the new building at Stratford Hospital in 2018.

The state-of-the-art hospital building on Arden Street welcomed it's first patients in 2017, but was officially opened by Princess Anne on Tuesday September 25th 2018 . After being given a tour of the £22million hospital, the princess met staff, patients and fund-raisers who have helped the South Warwickshire Foundation Trust surpass its £1million target to buy items such as special chemotherapy chairs which are not available on the NHS.