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20 March 2024
Maternity teams across the Black Country are the first to jointly roll out a region-wide digital platform to engage with frontline staff and use their feedback to improve patient experience. The Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System (BCLMNS) has championed a three-year partnership with ImproveWell which will be used in Maternity Services at Walsall […]
20 March 2024
Supported bus travel is being made available for Walsall patients in financial need to ensure they keep their medical appointments at the Manor Hospital. Thanks to a partnership between Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Patient Relations and Experience and High Intensity User Teams, supported by Walsall Council’s Walsall Connected centres, the passes will also help vulnerable […]
14 March 2024
Dr Manjeet Shehmar, Chief Medical Officer at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, has announced she is to leave the Trust to join Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) as Medical Director. A Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Shehmar graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine in 1998. Prior to joining Walsall Healthcare Trust in 2019 […]
12 March 2024
Bereaved parents and their families who have used Maternity and Neonatal Services across Walsall and Wolverhampton are invited to attend an engagement session to share their experiences and help healthcare professionals shape the support given following baby loss. The event, on Tuesday 19 March, has been organised through Specialist Bereavement Midwives at Walsall Healthcare and […]
12 March 2024
A grieving Walsall mum has made a donation to help sick babies after recently losing her own son. Cassie Gittins, 31, gave birth to son Roman Bailey on 5 January this year after suffering a placenta abruption, where the baby is starved of oxygen. He had been due on 29 February but Cassie, from Beechdale, […]
12 March 2024
Free training has been made available for people working and/or living in the Black Country to support the national Safer Sleep campaign run by the Lullaby Trust. Safer Sleep Week started yesterday and runs until Sunday 17 March, supported by the Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System (BCLMNS) which is highlighting the training aimed […]
11 March 2024
A Walsall Midwife has been invited to give evidence to a Parliamentary Inquiry into Birth Trauma to highlight the experiences of those from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. Carol King-Stephens is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead Midwife for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust who was a speaker at Westminster Health Forum last year. She will […]
7 March 2024
A colleague of a former Walsall patient, who died last year, is organising a fundraiser in their memory to support the hospice that cared for them. Martin Quinn is hosting a fundraising walk, which will take place on Saturday 20 April, to honour his late colleague Kamaljit Singh Bains, who died at Goscote Hospice on […]
5 March 2024
A grandmother has been recruited by Walsall researchers as the first participant in the UK to take part in a study to find out if compression therapy speeds up the healing of skin cancer wounds on the lower leg. Corrine Kirby, 62, is taking part in the Secondary intention wound healing following excision of keratinocyte […]
4 March 2024
Walsall mums-to-be who do not speak English, will experience better communication thanks to a new system. Wordskii Connect is now live in the Antenatal Clinic based at Walsall Manor Hospital. The system is designed to enable a non-English speaking patient to connect to a main helpline number with the help of a professional interpreter. It […]
1 March 2024
An innovative leader to champion and advance pelvic health care throughout the Black Country’s Maternity Services is being sought. The Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapist post will be the Clinical Lead for the Perinatal Pelvic Health Service (PPHS) and is being hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. The successful candidate will support the transformation of Maternity […]
29 February 2024
Two families were celebrating unusual births at Walsall Manor Hospital today after their babies arrived in a leap year. First to arrive on February 29 – the date which only comes around once every four years – was baby boy born to mum Oluwaseun Adeleye, 30, and partner Adebisi Adeleye, at 9.52am. Tipping the scales […]
