Mother’s Day treats for Walsall mums in hospital

Mothering Sunday has been made brighter – and tastier – thanks to a donation for mums on the postnatal ward and Neonatal Unit at Walsall Manor Hospital. Ash Brownsword, Senior Trader, and Charlie Campbell, Operations Manager, of CB Pugh in Darlaston, visited the hospital to deliver Mother’s Day biscuits and daffodils, through Walsall Healthcare’s Well […]

Midwife delivering a boost for families

A Midwife plans to deliver a boost for families by swimming five kilometres in open water with her two sisters to raise money for the Delivery Suite at Walsall Manor Hospital. Rhoda, Consultant Midwife at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Laura and Carla Flynn will be swimming the equivalent of 200 lengths of Lake Windermere on […]

Get your oral contraception at a Black Country pharmacy

Women across the Black Country can now get their supply of oral contraception at a local pharmacy, without the need to see a GP. More than 200 pharmacies in the Black Country are participating in this new service, aiming to increase choice for women in the ways in which they can access contraception. Oral contraception, […]

“Go-to” Ruth’s 40 years’ service

Forty years ago, Walsall Manor looked very different to the hospital that stands today as Ruth Green, who started her NHS career way back then, recalls. The West Wing and other areas didn’t even exist. Today West Wing is where Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) takes pride of place, along with a […]

Walsall focus on World Tuberculosis Day

A Walsall team which supports and treats adults and children with Tuberculosis (TB) – a major infectious disease – is helping to raise awareness among the borough’s communities. On World Tuberculosis Day, next Monday 24 March, staff from the TB Nursing Team at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust will host a stand near Costa Coffee in […]

Charity hike to raise money for anaesthetic room

A team of intrepid theatre staff at Walsall Manor Hospital are climbing the highest mountain in Wales to raise money to refurbish an anaesthetic room. The staff from Theatre 11 at the hospital want to complete the sponsored Snowdon hike on 26 April to transform the anaesthetic room to make surgery less daunting for children. […]

Cancer Care Awards

A Cancer Services Co-ordinator and a day hospice team have won awards for their hard work and dedication. Molly Ballard, Cancer Services Lung, Upper GI and Cancer of Unknown Primary Pathway Tracker at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, won the ‘Walsall Individual of the Year’ award and Fairoaks Day Hospice won ‘Walsall Team of the Year’, […]

Safer sleep for Black Country babies

Parents and carers across the Black Country are being given free thermometers to ensure the correct room temperature for their babies as part of the Safer Sleep Week campaign. The Lullaby Trust campaign raises awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and the simple advice that can reduce the risk of this. It is being […]

Like mother, like daughter – celebrating women in the NHS

This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025, we’re shining a light on female relatives in the NHS. Marked annually on March 8, it is a day to celebrate women’s achievements, while reflecting on their experiences. Mother and daughter Katie and Sian Vincent both work at Walsall Manor Hospital. Mum Sian joined the NHS aged 30. She […]

Celebrating internationally recruited NHS staff in Walsall and Wolverhampton

Healthcare teams at two Black Country NHS Trusts are celebrating the valuable difference made by internationally recruited staff members as part of this Overseas NHS Workers Day (7 March 2025). The annual celebration recognises the incredible contribution which overseas workers make to the NHS and how they support colleagues, patients and patients’ loved ones. Chioma […]

Big drop in prescription waiting times

Outpatients at Walsall Manor Hospital now receive their prescriptions far quicker after Pharmacy waiting times more than halved. Average waiting times for outpatient prescriptions have dropped 59 per cent, from 90 minutes to 37 minutes since October 2024, with a record turnaround of nine minutes. This follows a staff reorganisation  and the separation of outpatients […]

Future Nurses celebrate end of training

Student Nurses have reached a major milestone, celebrating the end of their three-year clinical placement at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The group, which began its course in 2022, has completed six placements across different hospital departments at Walsall Manor Hospital. By July, the students will be fully qualified and ready to take the next step […]