Well known community voices including celebrity chefs Atul Kochhar and Anjum Anand and media medic Dr Ranj Singh have joined forces to get behind the inaugural campaign from the NHS to urge South Asians to prevent or delay the development of Type 2 diabetes. The call out, which is also […]

A new walk-through coronavirus testing facility is to open for those with symptoms to book appointments at the Zone 2 Long Stay Car Park, Oakeywell Street, in Dudley, as part of the Government’s UK-wide drive to continue to improve the accessibility of coronavirus testing for local communities. Testing is available […]

Car parking charges for visitors and patients will be re-introduced at Walsall Manor Hospital from Thursday 1 October 2020 now that Government financial support has ended. Charges were waived during the Covid-19 pandemic – shortly after the national lockdown back in March this year – with the Department of Health […]

Walsall Healthcare’s Pharmacy Department plays an integral part in the trust providing safe, effective, evidence based care to patients. And we’re celebrating their contribution today on World Pharmacist Day. Pharmacists have long performed the vital and traditional role of dispensing and supplying medicines to wards and clinical areas and adapted […]

The Patient Experience Network National Awards celebrations have gone online. This Pandemic delayed celebration has a virtual format now which will run over a week starting on Monday 14 September. Each shortlisted entry will be given time to present their project and every attendee a greater opportunity to network and […]

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust will be implementing a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system this weekend as part of its exciting digital transformation journey. EPR is the collection of patient medical information containing both clinical and administrative data, which is accurately, electronically stored. It is one of the trust’s key […]

Public and environmental health experts from Public Health England (PHE) Midlands, the Health and Safety Executive and Sandwell Council are jointly investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Three laboratory confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease and six suspected cases have been identified in the West Bromwich area. Eight of the cases were […]

·   Brits aren’t happy to meet up with friends and family who they know have been breaking social distancing rules ·   Tension between Brits is now rising with one in five saying they have fallen out with family and friends over COVID-19 ·   Hugging has quickly fallen out of fashion […]

For patients missing the comfort of their living room while in Walsall Manor Hospital Ward 1 has come up with a homely solution. Ward Manager Julie Woods approached Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s charity Well Wishers to see if it would fund an idea staff had put forward. They wanted to […]