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29 January 2019
Toy car donation to children’s ward
News and media
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Praise for critical care in Walsall
25 January 2019
A former patient has praised the critical care teams at Walsall Manor Hospital who nursed him back to health. Griffiths Tonks, aged 39, spent just under two months in the hospital’s High Dependency and Intensive Therapy Units from May last year. When he spotted images of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s new Intensive Care Unit which […]
Sallyann’s key mental health role
23 January 2019
Walsall Healthcare’s professional lead for School Nursing will be playing a key role in shaping mental health support for young people nationally. Sallyann Sutton has been selected to be a member of the Expert Reference Group that will be instrumental in developing a manual to support the implementation of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in […]
Retiring audiologist bids goodbye after 40 years with Walsall Healthcare
22 January 2019
A big thank you to Specialist Audiologist Janelle Jones who has retired after four decades working within the NHS – spending over three of those decades in Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s audiology department. Janelle joined the trust in 1976 as a dental nurse, based at the Shelfield Clinic, but after discovering an interest in audiology […]
A new addition to the Women’s, Children’s & Clinical Support Services team
22 January 2019
A big ‘Hello’ to Carla Jones-Charles – our new Deputy Director of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Sexual Health. Carla, who lives in Birmingham, joins Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust from Heartlands Hospital where she worked as Delivery Suite Matron for over five years. In a role that supported more than 6000 women a year and managed around […]
Nursing Strategy developed by staff and patients
21 January 2019
Nursing staff from Walsall Manor Hospital and community services have been working with patients and volunteers to develop a Nursing Strategy. They shared experiences and ideas at a special event organised by Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Director of Nursing Karen Dunderdale which featured guest speaker Tommy Whitelaw, Dementia Carers Voices-UK project lead, who spoke about […]
Improving support for Walsall Healthcare apprentices
17 January 2019
Ofsted – the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills – inspected Walsall Healthcare’s Apprenticeship Scheme last December and has rated the provision as “Inadequate” in a report due to be published tomorrow (Friday 18 January 2019). Action to drive up the quality of the scheme is already being taken to address the […]