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4 February 2022
Our volume was turned all the way up when listening to one of our #RealMidwivesofWalsall promoting an important service on the radio. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Specialist Bereavement Midwife Laura Atkinson made us all #WalsallAndProud as she shared her story with BBC Radio WM. Laura provides sensitive, holistic care to parents and their families following […]
2 February 2022
Seventy two new staff have been welcomed by Walsall Manor Hospital teams as part of a joint initiative with whg and Walsall College to ‘support the dreams’ of local jobseekers. The new staff are all healthcare support workers (HCSWs) and will occupy permanent roles with an option to join the Trust’s bank teams too. As […]
1 February 2022
Walsall Manor Hospital has recruited its first patient this year to the COVID-19 RECOVERY clinical trial – the 104th from Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust to participate in Covid-19 research since the start of the pandemic. This international clinical trial, taking place at 191 sites worldwide, aims to identify treatments that may be beneficial for people […]
30 January 2022
Walsall’s acute oncology service is to become a seven-day service, increasing from five days a week, starting from Monday, 7 February. Currently the team, which reviews patients who are acutely unwell because of cancer, runs from Monday to Friday. Following extra funding and to fall in line with a national initiative, the service will operate […]
28 January 2022
Praised for his support and training, one of Walsall Healthcare’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultants is through to the national round of a competition held by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). Paul Woollett has been awarded West Midlands Trainer of the Year 2021 and has also been put forward to the RCOG for the […]
28 January 2022
More than 1,100 international nurses will have been recruited across the Black Country and West Birmingham by the end of 2022, making it the largest ever such recruitment drive in the Midlands. Organised through The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT), the campaign recruited more than 600 nurses from abroad in 2021, to work in locations […]
