John Hunter Hospital

Worst hospital. So unhygienic. Very rude staff, incompetent nurses, had to tell them what medication to use because too lazy to read notes. Handovers are more important to them, and they leave their patients to smell because they are too lazy to give them a proper bath/wash. INCOMPETENT M**HERF*UCKERS!!!!! surprised yous havent been sued!

on 4 occasions my husband has had operations at the John Hunter Hospital Newcastle. on every stay he has found the staff to be excellent.Even the food [that has so many complaints on radio] ok.
in each of these visits it was elective surgery .
when there was a delay due to complications the staff were very helpful ,
His recent visit was an emergency.
this was on a public holiday when it was the busiest time.
The Ambulance response was a little long , and ended up needing 2 Ambulances and 2 fireies to be able to get him out of the accommadation. A BIG THANKYOU TO ALL INVOLVED IN HELPING.
THE OVERAL TIME FROM CALL AT 10.50AM TO REACHING A&E AT JHH@1.30 TO WARD BY 4.30 WAS MARVELOUS. many thanks to everyone involved robyn harding

Two sons born at JH -first through Belmont Midwifery Clinic for pre-natal care and then JH for full birth. One live and one stillborn so I am writing this in honour of my stillborn son. First son, Midwifery care was great but birth was poorly managed with nurse trying 3x cannula attempts before giving up, no bed available so left hospital 6 hrs after son born carrying him to the car in my arms. No nurses were around so we could. 2nd son - Midwifery care at Belmont was WOEFUL - Valda was head midwife - picky about my weight (skinny shaming) and big belly (son was breech so of course I looked big!). Appt's literally took hours because Valda needed to check over midwifery students work. Valda criticised my antibiotic schedule prescribed by my GP, insisted on(non-required) tests, criticised the student midwives (the first midwifery student quit within weeks) and criticised my urine sample(which was acidic due to antibiotics). Undue stress was UNBELIEVABLE from Valda!! I requested another midwife who incorrectly palpated me (said babies head was head down in place) so I was never sent to the Breach Clinic like I should have been (the hospital eventually admitted to this failure). New midwife said "We get a lot of overanxious mothers like you here" Less than 2 weeks later, my son passed. Had to wait HOURS before they saw me and then days before I gave birth - which was more complicated because my son was breach. They never informed me that the Dr sent in to deliver my stillborn son had NEVER delivered a baby before. Birth was complicated (ended up with another infection) and my son had decomposed after 4 days of passing. Mothers please hear my plea from my pit of never ending pain, PLEASE be the squeaky wheel! Tell them when they are wrong when they are and if they don't correct themselves, go to a trusted GP/Midwife who can do accurate assessments and possibly speak to them. I already complained in writing and all I got back was a phone call saying they'll 'change things'. In honour of my stillborn son Phoenix, Please take care giving birth at this hospital!

Fantastic Hospital
Great atmosphere everyone was helpful and went out of their way to make me feel comfortable and at ease.
Best hospital I have ever been in or visited.
Can't rate the staff highly enough.

I came here to visit a friend who had recently came out of surgery.. walking into the hospital was easy, staff were friendly.. after one staff member directed me to the designated room I had to go to, I met my mate.. We went down to the food court and got lunch.. very good variety of foods! Overall the hospital is big (which is good), handy and helpful, friendly and is overal a clean and tidy place..

Would not trust these people, they abduct kids and force feed them medication.

On May 19, 2017, 4-year-old Chase Walker-Stevens, a vaccine-injured child with severe cerebral palsy and epilepsy, was forcibly removed from his parents because they had chosen to wean their son off all pharmaceutical products and treat him holistically with organic food. In a video taken minutes after Chase was stolen, his father, Marc Stevens, wept as he told friends and supporters how police had stormed into the hospital, locked him into the bathroom and snatched Chase from his mother’s arms, before arresting her. During the distressing six-minute footage of events which has gone viral and has now been viewed over 3 million times, we can witness for ourselves how supporters of the family are pepper sprayed by the police as they watch the child’s mother, Cini, being dragged from the hospital kicking and screaming. Today, Chase is being looked after by complete strangers in another state, whilst his parents have been kept in the dark as to where their son is.

Excellent staff doing the best they can. With what they have.

When traveling 250km to see loved ones, there for 5min then asked to leave cause it quiet time, to come back in 3hrs. Little leeway would be nice.