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.
24 January 2020
A charity appeal to buy interactive mobile gaming kits to be used by sick youngsters being treated at Walsall Manor Hospital has been launched today. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Well Wishers charity wants to raise £4,000 to buy two of TheRockinR units. These provide interactive mobile gaming solutions, technology and equipment for children and young […]
22 January 2020
“If you have received an invitation to go for your routine cervical smear then please do not ignore the letter. The test should take no more than 15 minutes and could save your life.” That’s the message from Linda Hayes, Cervical Screening Outreach Nurse at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust this Cervical Cancer Prevention Week – […]
21 January 2020
Butterflies and cars are just some of the images being used on Ward 3 of Walsall Manor Hospital to help patients feel at home and less anxious about their stay. Students from Whitecrest Primary School in Great Barr, worked with Walsall Healthcare’s Patient Experience team to help create this artwork which is used in the […]
6 January 2020
Congratulations to Joanna Sucha and Miloslav Suchy whose daughter Amelia was the first baby to be born at Walsall Healthcare’s Midwifery-Led Unit this morning – the first day it re-opened for births! Little Amelia arrived at 10am weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces and is the couple’s third child. Proud mum Joanna had a water […]
2 January 2020
So a new year is firmly upon us and it’s a good time to look back at 2019 and be proud of the support our Well Wishers charity has given to patients and their families in the Walsall area. Take a look at this short “Twelve days of Christmas” video that showcases some of the […]
30 December 2019
Walsall’s Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is set to re-open for births in a week’s time – with tours taking place for mums-to-be and their partners to have a look around and talk to staff. The unit, which is the Black Country’s only freestanding MLU, will continue to offer supportive antenatal, postnatal and perinatal mental health clinics. […]
30 December 2019
Baby Joseph Price, who was born almost two months’ prematurely, is one of the first young patients to use Walsall Manor Hospital’s new Neonatal Unit. The tot, who came into the world on Thursday 12 December weighing just two pounds and 11 ounces, has an infection in his lungs and new-born jaundice and is being […]
