A new Dementia Strategy is set to launch in Sandwell following months of collaboration between Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Sandwell Council and Sandwell Dementia Action Alliance. The teams have spent the past few months meeting with those who have a lived experience of dementia. It was important to the […]

Visitors to Walsall Manor Hospital will be able to speak to sexual health staff as part of national HIV Testing Week. The annual focus aims to promote regular testing among groups of people with particularly high late diagnoses rates including: Heterosexual men Black African adults Those aged 50 and older […]

Walsall Healthcare’s Safeguarding colleagues will join its School Nursing Team and borough partners to stage an information and support event as part of National Safeguarding Adults Week. National Safeguarding Adults Week runs from 18-22 November and will focus on: Self-neglect Modern slavery Online bullying and cyber security Disability hate crime […]

Sandwell Council environmental health staff have welcomed a £5,000-plus court bill for a local confectionery company and its owner after inspectors found poor standards of cleanliness. Officers visited the premises of Beacon West Bromwich Ltd in June 2018 and found filthy hand washing facilities, and the area around the sweet-packing […]

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust will be hosting its first winter fairs this December with crafters and fundraisers being sought to boost the festive spirit in aid of RWT charity. The charity is looking for people to hold a stall at the Winter Wonderland events at New Cross, Cannock Chase […]

This year’s Orange Wolverhampton campaign is once again going global! Last year, supporters took the safeguarding campaign’s messages to the Caribbean, and this time Orange Wolverhampton headed for South Africa. Steve Dodd, from Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together, visited Cape Town last month for an international learning event organised by Comic Relief […]

A Sandwell foundation group has been given a special grant to help them in their work with African Caribbean people suffering with mental health problems. The Sandwell African Caribbean Mental Health Foundation is an organisation based at the Kuumba Centre in Boulton Road, West Bromwich which works to help people […]

Mums-to-be, new mums, women considering becoming mums and their families are being invited to come along to a Maternity Showcase event in Walsall later this month. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Maternity Services have been rated “Good” by the Care Quality Commission and the event, on Tuesday 19 November between 1.30pm […]

“It’s a place where no two days are the same, the hours fly by and people never cease to amaze you – and we love it!” Matron Lesley Smith is talking about Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Emergency Department which is currently recruiting Band 5 Registered Nurses, a Band 5 Paediatric […]

Young patients at Walsall Manor Hospital will be dreaming of …a Crafty Christmas as an annual charity appeal enters its third year. Well Wishers, the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust charity, makes a seasonal plea for donations of craft materials such as colouring books, glitter, ribbons, paper, card and pens to help […]