Carol is connecting with communities

Service users across Walsall have been sharing their views with Equality and Inequality Lead Midwife Carol King-Stephens who is working with them to make maternity services more culturally aware and equitable. Carol took up her role at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust back in March and has been spending time with women who meet at: Chuckery […]

Teamwork credited with driving patient improvement

A team effort to ensure gold standard care for patients with hip fractures has resulted in a national award for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust which is now rated as second best in the region for its service. Reduced hospital stays, less time in theatre for patients, a decrease in mortality rates and improvements in the […]

Minimising infection risk for Walsall patients

New “pods” are being installed at Walsall Manor Hospital to create single room areas for patients and further boost efforts to minimise infection risk and contain outbreaks. A total of eight Bioquell Pods are being put into Wards 1-4 – two on each ward – from Monday 25 April and the installation is expected to […]

Acute oncology to be seven-day-a-week service

Walsall’s acute oncology service is to become a seven-day service, increasing from five days a week, starting from Monday, 7 February. Currently the team, which reviews patients who are acutely unwell because of cancer, runs from Monday to Friday. Following extra funding and to fall in line with a national initiative, the service will operate […]

Community services “ahead of the game” say NHS chiefs

NHS executives have praised Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust as being “ahead of the game” for their innovation in community services. Sam Sherrington, Head of Community Nursing at NHS England and Improvement, and Andrea Westlake, her deputy, presented to community nurses from both Trusts at Wolverhampton Science Park earlier this […]

Patients’ feedback helps shape new ED development

Focus groups have been working with the teams involved in the construction of the new Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit at Walsall Manor Hospital to ensure the views of patients are taken on board. Healthwatch Walsall supported the sessions earlier this year to include engagement with groups of: Children and Young People Patients with […]

Well Wishers improving patients’ experience

Patients will be able to tune into their favourite soaps, quiz shows or documentaries thanks to a host of new televisions funded by Walsall Healthcare’s Well Wishers charity. Well Wishers has bought TVs for the bays in Wards 9 and 10 at Walsall Manor Hospital thanks to generous donations. These wards have also been refurbished […]

Prayer radios on song for Sikh patients thanks to donation

Special radios that play prayers are now available to Sikh patients to use at Walsall Manor Hospital. Thirty of the hand-held, pocket-sized devices with pre-enabled microchips are programmed to play a range of Sikh prayers and hymns. They will assist with or provide daily worship at a time when patients are unable to visit their […]

Walsall Healthcare Annual General Meeting

Walsall Healthcare’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 10am on Wednesday 8 September 2021 – broadcast via Microsoft Live Stream. The meeting will be open to the public and staff to join and find out how the last year has impacted the organisation during the pandemic as well as hear about improvements made and […]

Showcasing Quality Improvement in Walsall

From working with elderly patients to make hospital discharge information clearer, to finding better ways to support homeless people with TB in the community – staff at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust have been working hard on innovations and improvements over the last year. Their efforts will be showcased at the trust’s Quality Improvement Awards event […]

MP sees progress made on new Walsall ED

Walsall North MP Eddie Hughes visited Walsall Manor Hospital today to see the progress made on its new multi-million pound Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit development. Construction on the main phase of the c£40m development is now well under way following the completion of enabling works at the site. The scheme, being delivered by […]

Main works to start on Walsall’s Emergency Department

Construction on the main phase of Walsall’s new multi-million pound Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit development will now get under way following the completion of enabling works at the site. The c£40m development, being delivered by Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited (formerly Interserve Construction), is set to significantly improve our emergency care facilities and capacity. […]