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The account for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. Providing care at the Midland Met University Hospital, City & Sandwell Health Campuses & Rowley Regis Hospital: www.swbh.nhs.uk
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The Trust's Frailty Intervention Team have been shortlisted for a national HSJ Award.

The team are shortlisted in the Transforming Care for Older People category, for developing services such as a Frailty Same Day Emergency Care Unit.

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We are pleased to announce that the Trust is shortlisted for NHS Communications Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Awards, after preparing 750,000 people in the local area for the opening of the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital.

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Congratulations to Sana Gul, registered nurse and student midwife, who has been nominated for the Ann Shuttleworth Rising Star Award at the 2025 Nursing Times Awards.

Sana qualified as a registered nurse in the UK in 2023 and is currently in her final year of her midwifery studies.
Surgeons at the Trust have successfully performed a robotic-TAMIS surgery, the first robotic colorectal #surgery of its kind to be performed in Birmingham and the Black Country.

Transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) is a technique to remove polyps and early-stage #cancers from the rectum.
Thank you to our friends at ACT Solutions, who recently took on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise a fantastic £510 for children in our care.

The team braved 24.8 miles, 61,000 steps, nearly 10 hours of wind and climbs to complete one of the UK’s toughest hikes.

Thank you ACT Solutions!
Former NHS staff have been sharing their memories of the historic City Hospital in Birmingham, at a special alumni event held to mark the closure of the building that had been at the heart of healthcare in the city for nearly 140 years.

Read more here: www.swbh.nhs.uk/news/memorie...
Patients who are having a knee or hip replacement at the Trust will now be offered Mako robotic-arm assisted surgery, with benefits such as reduced pain, better mobility and faster recovery times.

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Atul Malik explains how the innovative treatment works.
The High Sheriff of the West Midlands has officially opened what is thought to be one of the longest art galleries in a UK hospital.

On the same day The Commons Community Garden, was also opened.

Read more about the launch of both spaces here:
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Welcome to the Star Awards – our staff recognition event which honours many of our very own NHS heroes.

We’ll be bringing you news of all the winners later on this evening.
Therapists, entertainers, hairdressers and nail technicians are being urged to volunteer for a pamper day to spoil cancer patients at our annual Cancer and Wellbeing event.
Call Jenny Donovan on 0121 507 2776 or email [email protected] to volunteer.
Over 140 students were invited to learn about the range of jobs the NHS has to offer, at the first careers event held at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick.

Students were given the chance to speak to staff and find out more about the NHS role that interested them the most.
Take a look around the cardiac catheter laboratories at our Midland Met hospital.

Our cath labs are equipped with modern X-ray imaging equipment and state-of-the-art monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

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Inside a cardiac catheter laboratory
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Harvest View offers specialist support to patients from both social & health care staff under one roof.

Matron Lady Ann explains more about the facility, run jointly by the Trust & Sandwell Council.
Lady Ann Ordona introduces Harvest View a health and social care facility
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Meet some of our cancer patients and find out how our patient advisory group has helped them.

These groups are a chance for patients and their family members who are living with cancer to meet others who are going through a similar experience.

#WorldCancerDay

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World Cancer Day - Meet some of our cancer patients
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Felicia Selvaraj, aged 63, has become the first patient to undergo “awake” breast surgery at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick.

The retired NHS nurse underwent a right total mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy under regional anaesthesia and conscious sedation.
First awake breast surgery performed at the Midland Met | Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
A retired NHS nurse has become the first patient to undergo “awake” breast surgery at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick. Felicia Selvaraj, aged 63, underwent a right total mast...
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Meet Leo - he's a critical care outreach nurse, who's also part of the team heading up the #CallForConcern service.

This service is for inpatients and their families to ask for immediate help and advice if they feel concerned about their own or their loved one's condition.

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Thank you to Holly and Lee Gisby who have gifted two Abi Cooling Cots to our maternity department, in memory of their son Albie, who they lost at 39 weeks in July 2023.

You can read more about how the cots support grieving families here: www.swbh.nhs.uk/news/family-...
This year we have returned to our traditional Christmas poem, written for the eve of the big day. Thank you to every staff member, partner and patient who voiced a line.

Whatever your plans we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
SWBH Christmas Poem 2024
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