LLHM
14 February 2024
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.
They met, they mingled, the rest is history!
14 February 2024
“He’s my best friend, my soulmate. “She’s just so genuine and has a real aura around her.” When Colin Osbourn and Sallyann Wilkinson started to attend the Meet and Mingle support and social group for patients who had spent time in Walsall Manor Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), little did they know that it would […]
Countdown to MLU re-opening
12 February 2024
Walsall’s Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU), which has now been relocated inside the Manor Hospital, is set to re-open on Monday 19 February as part of an ongoing £1.6m Maternity Services makeover. The MLU was previously a standalone site and feedback shared with Walsall’s Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP), as well as via a survey in […]
“Personal care” key say survey respondents
12 February 2024
“I want my care to feel more personal rather than clinical.” Building a good relationship with the same Midwife – leading up to and beyond the birth of their babies – is emerging as one of the most important features of Maternity Services for mums-to-be and birthing people across the Black Country. The Black Country […]
Life as an NHS Apprentice: Mariam’s story
9 February 2024
NHS Apprentice Mariam Bismillah is grateful to have been given the opportunity to complete an apprenticeship to “learn and earn” while she starts her career at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The Resourcing Apprentice started her role in August 2023 and is hoping to stay within the public sector as she progresses. Mariam, 20, said: “I’ve […]
Tailor-made aprrenticeship suits busy Tim
9 February 2024
Chief Orthodontic and Maxillofacial Technician, Dr Timothy Farrington, has worked for the NHS for 27 years and had been looking for ways to further develop his skills to progress his career. Having a full-time role at Walsall Manor Hospital and being a father of five, he is incredibly busy and needed a course which fitted […]
Walsall signs up first UK patient to eczema trial
5 February 2024
Researchers in Walsall have recruited the first patient in the UK to take part in a clinical trial to investigate a new drug to treat adults with severe eczema. The global Phase II dermatology clinical trial LP0145-2240, sponsored by Leo Pharma, is looking at a novel drug LEO 138559 in the treatment of moderate to […]