We are delighted to announce The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) is now smoke free for staff, as of today! Support for patients and visitors is in development ahead of a totally smoke free Trust in October 2020. David Loughton CBE, Chief Executive for the Trust, said: “As a healthcare organisation […]

Congratulations  to Joanna Sucha and Miloslav Suchy whose daughter Amelia was the first baby to be born at Walsall Healthcare’s Midwifery-Led Unit this morning – the first day it re-opened for births! Little Amelia arrived at 10am weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces and is the couple’s third child. Proud […]

The Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is a short-stay birthing centre which is a relaxed environment close to the hospital with midwives and clinical support workers always on shift. The MLU offers a variety of facilities in a modern and comfortable setting including: Three birth rooms – each with a birthing pool […]

Walsall’s Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is set to re-open for births in a week’s time – with tours taking place for mums-to-be and their partners to have a look around and talk to staff. The unit, which is the Black Country’s only freestanding MLU, will continue to offer supportive antenatal, postnatal and […]

Baby Joseph Price, who was born almost two months’ prematurely, is one of the first young patients to use Walsall Manor Hospital’s new Neonatal Unit. The tot, who came into the world on Thursday 12 December weighing just two pounds and 11 ounces,  has an infection in his lungs and […]

Congratulations to Zaneta Kovacova and Jaroslav Cina who are the proud parents of Walsall Manor Hospital’s first Christmas Day 2019 baby. Little Santiago came into the world at 8.09am this morning weighing 5 pounds and 14 ounces. “He wasn’t due until 14 January but I had a feeling he’d come […]

Are you pregnant? Perhaps your partner is expecting? If so, do you, or does your partner, or anyone in your household smoke? Please help us by completing this short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/localmaternitysystem about smoking in pregnancy. It’s anonymous but your views will be a massive help to the Black Country and West Birmingham […]

A grateful Bloxwich mum whose son has been “in and out of Walsall Manor Hospital” has donated bagfuls of toys to the Children’s Ward. Leia Rowbotham’s four-year-old son Reggie-Ray Greenfield has recently been diagnosed with epilepsy but prior to this had meningitis. “I’ve been in and out of the hospital […]

The New Year is fast approaching and, with a new decade unfolding, we asked leading cosmetic surgeons Mr Alex Karidis and Mr Mark Ho-Asjoe from the Karidis Clinic to share their predictions for the “tweakments” and trends set to take 2020 by storm. The Demise of ‘Duck Face’ & the Rise of The Lip Lift […]

Christmas came early for young patients at Walsall Manor Hospital thanks to property developer Tameway (Midlands) The company, which has been transforming the 14-storey Tameway Tower, in Bridge Street, Walsall, turning the former office block into apartments, asked Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust to provide a “wish list” of toys and […]