The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Wolverhampton has become one of the only hospitals in the country to perform less invasive heart bypass surgery, and is aiming to offer this service as regular service to patients. Four patients have now received Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB) in the Heart and Lung Centre at New Cross Hospital. Link to full story: https://bit.ly/3Ea66uo

A physiotherapist in Wolverhampton passionate about research is going global after being invited to co-lead a project to develop stroke recovery and rehabilitation for patients worldwide. Dr Ali Aries, Allied Health Professions Research Lead at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Senior Lecturer at Keele University, will co-chair the prestigious International Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Alliance (ISRRA) Roundtables. Link to the full story: https://bit.ly/4htZbL0

Joe Chadwick-Bell, our new Group Chief Executive, attended her first Trust Board meeting today. Next to her is Sir David Nicholson KCB CBE, Group Chair.

LGBTQ+ parents and their children can now enjoy their own stay and play group in Wolverhampton – believed to be the Black Country’s first. Proud Parents was established by Sunita Banga, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead Midwife at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, and the City of Wolverhampton Council. The group was born from demand for a post-natal group from the Pride in Pregnancy group, which started in July 2023 for LGBTQ+ pregnant parents. “It’s important to listen to what the families of Wolverhampton want and I’m proud to make this happen,” said Sunita. Link to full story: https://bit.ly/42e9MoQ

A golden servant of Wolverhampton healthcare with six decades of NHS service is retiring, insisting: “I’d do it all again”. John Harris, Legal Services Manager at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, is finally putting down his pen after 60 NHS years, 56 in Wolverhampton. Now 81, John – which he insists on being called despite being known universally as ‘Mr Harris’ – still starts work at New Cross Hospital at 6.30am and never works from home. John joined The Mid Worcestershire Hospital Management Committee – now Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust – on 14 December 1964, working for the Hospital Secretary, based in Bromsgrove General Hospital. Full story: https://bit.ly/3VNDPQv

Wolverhampton has recruited the first patient in the UK to a new trial investigating the prevention of anaemia in pregnancy. The Primary prevention of maternal ANaemia to Avoid preterm Delivery and other Adverse outcomes (PANDA) Prevention, aims to recruit 11,020 women. The aim of PANDA, a programme which has been running for four years, is to see if by preventing anaemia, babies can be prevented from being born too small and too early and to stop some stillbirths. PANDA Prevention is the main trial of the programme and it aims to understand the real effects of giving low-dose iron supplements during pregnancy to prevent anaemia and its harmful complications. Full story: https://bit.ly/3Dl40Yf

Three “inspirational” Wolverhampton healthcare heroes have been crowned Black Country award winners at a regional ceremony. Charlotte Colesby won the inaugural Allied Health Professionals’ (AHP) Council’s Excellence Award for Regional/National Impact, Charlotte Shillito won the AHP Workforce Transformation Award, and Jen Cartwright is the Black Country AHP Council Award winner. Charlotte Colesby is Deputy Chief AHP/Speech and Language Therapy Services Manager, Charlotte Shillito is a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, and Jen is Education Programme Lead on the Integrated Care System (ICS) People Programme. The trio of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) successes means the organisation won three of the eight Black Country AHP Awards, all presented by Sally Roberts, Chief Nursing Officer for the Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) at Himley Hall. https://lnkd.in/dzkY6c2S

More than 200 people flocked to a history fair in Wolverhampton, with many signing up to an oral history project on healthcare. Items – including an early version of a nasal cannula – were displayed at the fair at the Wolverhampton City Archive in the Molineux Hotel Building. A stall was hosted by volunteers from the Care, Create, Conserve project, part of the Arts and Heritage Group of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) Charity. For full story, follow this link: https://bit.ly/3Vj8O6s

In her latest blog, Dr Ros Leslie, our Chief AHP, reflects on the first Celebration of Black Country Research event with Pauline Boyle, Group Director of Research & Development at RWT and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The Black Country Integrated Care System hosted its first Black Country Celebration of Research event at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich. This collaborative celebration was established to showcase the incredible research and innovation by staff across primary and secondary care, and community and voluntary sectors. Around 130 health and care professionals, volunteers, stakeholders, and academics joined us for a range of presentations and breakout sessions. Link to the blog: https://bit.ly/3Zv2g7e

Two of Wolverhampton’s MPs visiting some of the busiest areas of New Cross Hospital to find out how they can support and ease pressure on the service were impressed by “inspirational” care. Sureena Brackenridge and Warinder Juss, new Labour MPs for Wolverhampton North East and Wolverhampton West respectively, visited The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) site. They toured the Emergency Department, Ambulance Receiving Centre and the Paediatric Ward with Sir David Nicholson KCB, CBE, Group Chair of RWT, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust and The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. For full story, follow the link: https://bit.ly/3ZtsIy4