HSJ Award honour for Walsall Healthcare

Efforts made to improve patients’ experience at Walsall Manor Hospital’s Emergency Department – including speedier ambulance handover times – have earned its teams a national award. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust won the Performance Recovery Award category of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards at a ceremony attended by Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting. […]

AMU expansion work to start soon

Essential work on a £6.2m expansion of the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) at Walsall Manor Hospital will start later this month – with patients and their families being advised there will be some disruption in the waiting room of the Emergency Department for a few weeks. Drainage work is due to start on Monday 18 […]

Teams’ high hopes for HSJ award

Urgent and Emergency Care Teams at Walsall Manor Hospital, who have worked to deliver some of the shortest ambulance handover times in the country, have seen their efforts shortlisted in a national award programme. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has been shortlisted in the Performance Recovery Award category of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards. This […]

Schoolboy’s life saved by construction worker

A quick-thinking construction worker scooped up a collapsed child and ran with him into Walsall Manor Hospital’s Resus Department – with just seconds to spare before the schoolboy lost his life. Ten-year-old Brooklyn Alwill Foster had gone into diabetic ketoacidosis (a type of diabetic emergency) after becoming unwell a few days’ previously. His family had […]

Giving young patients a voice

Little Voices’ “inspectors” spent a busy day reviewing paediatric services for Walsall children and young people – impressing healthcare staff with their observations and ideas. They formed the new Little Voices initiative developed by the Patient Relations & Experience Team at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust which has partnered with Pelsall Village School. Six inspectors, complete […]

New PAU “better for patients”

Staff are now settling into Walsall Manor Hospital’s relocated Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) which moved into the new multi-million pound Urgent and Emergency Care Centre earlier today. The move will see staff working much more closely with Emergency Department (ED) teams as Children’s ED is in the same centre. This also creates professional development and […]

March move in dates for new Walsall centre

A multi-million pound Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC) will receive its first patients next month, proud Walsall Healthcare chiefs have announced. The two-storey c£40m development, being delivered by Tilbury Douglas, will significantly improve emergency care facilities and capacity – providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space. The Emergency Department will be the […]

New Year, new centre, for Walsall patients and staff

Work is continuing on the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre at Walsall Manor Hospital which will be fully functional early in the New Year. The multi-million-pound centre – Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s most substantial investment to date – is being delivered by Tilbury Douglas Limited. Completion was initially expected to be this autumn, but […]

Updated guidance on wearing masks

Following an update in national guidance and local risk assessment, from next Tuesday 6 September mask wearing has been reviewed. The following will apply: Patients and visitors attending appointments at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust are no longer required to wear a face mask unless they have respiratory symptoms. If attending the Emergency Department or Urgent […]

Home straight for Walsall’s exciting new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre

Work on Walsall’s multi-million pound Urgent and Emergency Care Centre is now entering the final six months of the project and is well on track for an autumn completion date. Excited staff who will be working in the massively improved new building have been enjoying tours of their future work environment and have been really […]

Celebrating the life of our colleague’s late husband 

A fund has been set up to support the heartbroken Willenhall family of a loving husband and father who died of Covid-19. Stu Davies passed away with the virus at Walsall Manor Hospital on 19 November. His wife Leeann Davies is a Sister in the Emergency Department (ED) at the Manor. The 54-year-old had been admitted […]

Vaccination bus for Walsall patients

Patients going to Walsall Manor Hospital, and the public, will be able to get on board a Covid-19 vaccination bus parked on site throughout this weekend. The bus is near to the rear entrance of the hospital, known as the Sister Dora entrance and provides the Pfizer vaccination only. Professor David Loughton CBE, interim Chief […]