Helping patients to recover well at home

Walsall patients who need intravenous antibiotics can now receive their treatment in the community in a move that avoids hospital admission and helps towards earlier discharges. The Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) approach has been developed by the inpatient Antimicrobial Team within Walsall Manor Hospital. Antimicrobial Lead Clinician Shabina Raza said the service, established last […]

Our Becky’s an “outstanding” student

District Nursing student Becky Westwood has certainly made her mark, and her Walsall team extremely proud,  receiving a top award for being an “outstanding” student. Becky, who works in the South 2 Locality Team based at Broadway Medical Centre, received the Philip Goodeve-Docker Memorial Prize. This accolade acknowledges the top performing student in the District […]