Transforming Healthcare - The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals ...

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Date: Thursday 27 August 2009
Ref: DB.09.009
Transforming Healthcare
A Black Country hospital is working closely with patients and local residents to
shape the future of healthcare services for the next generation.
Next month (September 2009), staff at New Cross Hospital in Wednesfield,
Wolverhampton, are asking local people to join them and celebrate the part
that patients, as healthcare consumers, play in developing hospital services.
“We’ve a well-established research and development directorate,” explains
Yvonne Hague, directorate manager, The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals
NHS Trust. “In September we’re celebrating the contributions made by
patients, carers and other people from across the city. This will help shape our
healthcare services for future generations.
“For most people, research and innovation are not the first things that they
consider when they think of the NHS. But research and innovation are the
basis of modernising patient care, treatment and, through that, the quality of
life within the wider community.”
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Issued by David Ballard, Interim Communications Manager
Address: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust, Wolverhampton, WV10 6BR.
Direct Line: 01902 695900
Email: david.ballard@rwh-tr.nhs.uk communications.dept@rwh-tr.nhs.uk

Transforming Healthcare cont.
Yvonne says that the New Cross research and development team are
committed to delivering excellent healthcare services. She adds that it is
important for the hospital to engage and assist patients and carers because
they stimulate and drive forward research and innovation.
“At the event next month,” says Yvonne, “people will learn about the research
that we’re working on at present, and how our previous work has influenced
change. We’d also like to talk to people about joining our patient advisory
board.”
Members of the public, and representatives of local healthcare support
groups, are invited to meet health service managers at a reception at the
Wolverhampton Medical Institute, New Cross Hospital, at 6.00 pm on
Wednesday 16 September 2009.
Refreshments will be served and parking is free of charge if you register in
advance. To book your place, contact Kim Kinsella, 01902 695065, or email
kimberley.kinsella@rwh-tr.nhs.uk.
Kate Lees (left), business support manager, and Yvonne Hague, research and development
directorate manager at New Cross Hospital, get ready to celebrate the transformation in
healthcare.
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Issued by David Ballard, Interim Communications Manager
Address: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust, Wolverhampton, WV10 6BR.
Direct Line: 01902 695900
Email: david.ballard@rwh-tr.nhs.uk communications.dept@rwh-tr.nhs.uk