New clinic opens for Hepatitis C patients. Featured in the Express & Star A new Hepatitis C clinic which aims to help patients receive treatment quicker and closer to home has officially opened in Smethwick. The much-needed service allows pat...

Heartbeat: Local businesses make a difference for our patients. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Birmingham and BT Customer Care in West Bromwich visited our hospitals earlier this month, armed with paint and rollers ready to transform two wards to make them more i...

Heartbeat: The Sound of Music rings through City Hospital. If you wander down to the postgraduate centre at City Hospital on a Sunday afternoon, you’ll hear the calming sounds of an orchestra filtering through the air. Every two weeks, the Birmingham Gay Symph...

Upcoming Unison AGM - 18 March. All Unison members are invited to the Sandwell and West Birmingham Unison annual general meeting on Monday 18 March, 12.30pm-2.30pm at the trade union office, City Hospital. The Branch wants to hear yo...

Cold Weather Alert Level 2 - Alert and Readiness. There is an 80 per cent probability of severe cold weather between Friday 18 January-Monday 21 January in parts of England including the West Midlands. This weather could increase the health risks to v...

Targeted coaching programme: Week 2. As part of the pre go-live preparations and engagement the Unity clinical informatics team will be visiting departments over the next 14 weeks to deliver targeted coaching to clinical colleagues. These...

Recommend a theatre practitioner to work at SWBH and you could earn £100. The Trust is holding a Theatres Recruitment Open Day on 26 January, at the Education Centre, Sandwell Hospital, between 9.30am-2pm – and you could earn £100 by recommending a loved one. Successful can...

Heartbeat: Trainee doctors present ideas on teamwork and leadership. During semester one of their medicine and surgery placement at our hospitals, third year medical students undertake a teamwork and leadership activity. They study the contribution of good teamwork and ...

Unity roadshows: Week 2 How Unity supports falls management. Roadshows for nurses and ward clerks are happening this week. Look out for your informatics nurse or ward clerk. Nursing are being coached on nurse rounding in Unity, how to order a reminder for a set ...

Unity end user training to be completed by 31 January. New dates have been released for the Unity end user training, and managers are asked to ensure their teams are trained by Thursday 31 January. To book onto a course see the training schedule on Connect...