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17 February 2021
News and media
This section gives you the latest news about our work and achievements. Click on the link to any story to read the full details. If you are a member of the media and wish to contact our press office, please visit our News and Media page.
A health and wellbeing boost for critical care
16 February 2021
Grateful critical care staff in Walsall were over the moon to receive a real pick me up from Hampers for Heroes. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Fundraising Manager Georgie Westley made contact with its founder Victoria Hanson to see whether a donation could be made at the Manor Hospital and Victoria was only too happy to […]
Pharmacy service now in Outpatients Department
9 February 2021
A Pharmacy dispensing service has now been set up within the Outpatients Department of Walsall Manor Hospital so that patients can collect their medication much closer to the clinics they have attended. This service has been set up in the area that was previously the Purple Hub, along the outpatients corridor, near to the main […]
Children’s Mental Health Week
8 February 2021
Young patients at Walsall Manor Hospital were encouraged to express their feelings especially during the Covid-19 pandemic during Children’s Mental Health Week. Assistant Play Specialist Jo Plank helped the children to do this through the form of art and the pieces will be used to create a display on Ward 21, the Children’s Ward. Jo […]
CliPP has launched!
8 February 2021
Walsall Healthcare NHS students have been experiencing new methods of teaching with the launch of CLiPP. CLiPP stands for Collaborative Learning in Practice. It originated in Amsterdam and is closely linked to the NMC standards (2018) and the new Practice Supervisor and Assessor roles. It is a clinical learning programme which focuses on coaching methods […]
Farewell to Maureen
8 February 2021
Midwife Maureen Miles has retired after providing 50 years of support to Walsall families and her own colleagues alike. Maureen began training in 1971 and started community midwifery when she qualified in 1973. She has been amazed at all the advances in midwifery over the years but also how the core values of “with woman” […]
Remembering Captain Sir Tom Moore
4 February 2021
Here at Walsall Healthcare we were so sad to hear that Captain Sir Tom Moore had died on Tuesday at Bedford Hospital. Colleagues will recall that the 100-year-old raised almost £33m for NHS charities by walking laps in his garden. He was a complete inspiration and did so much to raise vital funds to support […]