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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.

Welcome to our new Associate Non-Executive Directors

27 February 2023

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has welcomed two new non-executive Board appointments to help make a positive difference to patients and their families across the borough’s communities. Fiona Allinson and Rachel Barber have joined as Associate Non-Executive Directors and both attended their first Trust Board meeting earlier this month. Qualifying as a nurse in the late […]

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Karen’s four decades of memories

27 February 2023

“It’s the little things that have made my time so special.” Paediatric Senior Sister Karen Allen has many fond memories from her 43-year NHS career and says working with so many wonderful children and young people has felt like an extension of her own family. Karen, who has worked for the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust […]

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Oh baby! Top tips for new daddies

23 February 2023

From car seat queries to which rashes and spots to be concerned about and what’s normal in nappies – a series of videos aimed at new dads has been shared by the Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS). The series of films – entitled Oh baby! Top tips for new daddies – was […]

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Chief Nurse’s blog

23 February 2023

Virtual approaches to healthcare at-scale are still relatively new for the nursing profession. Equipping the modern nursing workforce for the realities it faces using new technologies to enhance access requires new thinking around education. Virtual consultations and virtual wards have spread rapidly in the NHS since the COVID-19 pandemic. They have become a progressively important […]

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Sheila – “I know I made the right decision”

22 February 2023

A mother of three has reflected on her first year into a scholarship in memory of Walsall Staff Nurse Areema Nasreen and insists: “I know I made the right decision.” It is more than two years since Sheila Kerai, 48, was interviewed to be the first recipient of the scholarship, which was decided upon as […]

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