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26 November 2019
Handing over thermometers to the chemo unit
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Help to keep your hospital infection free
26 November 2019
Visitors to Walsall Manor Hospital are being reminded how important it is to stay away if they have sickness and diarrhoea symptoms to avoid passing on the contagious norovirus infection. Director of Nursing at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Karen Dunderdale said: “We’re almost into winter and we want to make sure our patients and their […]
Call for community researchers to shape maternity services
26 November 2019
Women across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton are being given an opportunity to train as local researchers to help shape maternity and local public health services across their communities. Black Country Local Maternity System (LMS) wants local women and their families to gather the thoughts and experiences on a range of issues connected to healthy […]
Visiting surgeons gain Walsall expertise
26 November 2019
Surgeons from Norway visited Walsall Manor Hospital earlier this month for a two day workshop focusing on Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction. This is a specialised procedure for very large and complex incisional hernias that is only carried out in a few centres in the UK. Mr Steve Odogwu, Consultant Surgeon with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust […]
Sensory boxes create a lovely Livvy legacy
22 November 2019
Walsall mum Sara Meredith is keeping her daughter’s memory alive as well as helping other parents whose children are being treated on the Children’s Ward at Walsall Manor Hospital. Sara’s daughter Olivia, known as Livvy, had the neurological condition Rett Syndrome and died at the age of nine in 2008. She suffered many seizures as […]
HIV Testing Week – find out more in Walsall
19 November 2019
Visitors to Walsall Manor Hospital will be able to speak to sexual health staff today as part of national HIV Testing Week. The annual focus aims to promote regular testing among groups of people with particularly high late diagnoses rates including: Heterosexual men Black African adults Those aged 50 and older But it is also […]
Working together in Walsall to safeguard adults
18 November 2019
Walsall Healthcare’s Safeguarding colleagues will join its School Nursing Team and borough partners to stage an information and support event as part of National Safeguarding Adults Week. National Safeguarding Adults Week runs from 18-22 November and will focus on: Self-neglect Modern slavery Online bullying and cyber security Disability hate crime Financial abuse Forced marriage The […]