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New charity-funded patient video launched to improve awareness of awake brain surgery
04 February 2025
The Walton Centre has launched a new video charting the course of a complex surgical procedure to improve awareness and support patients undergoing brain tumour treatment.
Feature - The stars come out at night
29 January 2025
While Liverpool sleeps, The Walton Centre remains a hive of activity around the clock. We join colleagues on the night shift to discover what happens at the hospital after dark.
Top Tech - how The Walton Centre is enhancing staff and patient care
22 January 2025
At The Walton Centre we have a significant digital and data-enabled transformation programme underway, to deliver services that work for patients and staff including managing the basics, optimising systems, and transforming services.
'The Walton Centre helped me to start a family by managing my chronic migraines'
15 January 2025
Since the age of 14, Jo Price from Ruthin North Wales has lived with migraines. When an episode strikes, Jo becomes immobile, unable to move her head without intense stabbing pains, they can affect her speech and can make her vomit. By her 20s, Jo was being struck down regularly with migraine attacks, taking days to recover each time, and be looked after by others.
Spotlight on Oliver Tierney, Operating Department Practitioner
09 January 2025
Oliver has been at The Walton Centre since 2013 and is also the Clinical Lead for Education, Risk and Governance.
Unique pain programme helps elderly get back on their feet
18 December 2024
Four years ago, the 80-year-old from Northumberland was officially diagnosed with CRPS at The Walton Centre, where she has been a patient ever since.
The Walton Centre retains gold standard in Investors in People Award
17 December 2024
Investors in People is the international industry standard for people management, testing organisations against a rigorous framework for best practice in the workplace. The specialist Trust is one of a handful of NHS organisations to earn the IIP Gold accolade with the latest version of the standard.
The Walton Centre named as part of NHS Hospital Group in one of 20 Commercial Research Delivery Centres in the UK
12 December 2024
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, alongside NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG), formerly known as Liverpool University Hospitals, has been named as host for an NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre, which will bring cutting-edge commercial research to communities in Cheshire and Merseyside.
‘One minute I was washing up, the next I was on the floor and I couldn’t feel my legs’
12 December 2024
Towards the end of May this year, Declan Tidswell, from the Wirral, was pottering around the kitchen one night after making a meal. The next thing he remembers is waking up on the kitchen floor without any feeling in his legs below the knees.
‘The Walton Centre I work for saved my mum’s life, and I’m inspired to work here all over again!’
03 December 2024
When Healthcare Assistant Megan Pape from Liverpool came into work at The Walton Centre a few weeks ago, little did she know that a normal day in the Outpatients Department was going to take an unusual turn.
Jan Fairclough Ball raises over £57,000 for the Home from Home appeal
26 November 2024
The Walton Centre Charity held its 13th annual Jan Fairclough Ball at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool on Friday 15 November and once again, it was an outstanding success. Spearheaded once again by our patron, David Fairclough and family, and sponsored by our valued supporters AB Engineering, Home Bargains, and the Carpenters Group, the evening raised an impressive £57,000 with every penny going towards our Home from Home Relatives' Accommodation.
Chief Executive Jan Ross appointed LJMU honorary fellow
11 November 2024
Congratulations to our Chief Executive Jan Ross, who was appointed as an honorary fellow at Liverpool John Moores University this month.
Consultant appointed as Parkinson's UK Regional Clinical Lead
11 November 2024
Dr Antonella Macerollo, Consultant Neurologist, has been appointed as Parkinson's UK Regional Clinical Lead for the North West.
Spotlight on... Dr Paul Carreon, Specialist Research Physiotherapist
01 November 2024
Dr Paul Carreon is a specialist research physiotherapist at The Neurosciences Research Centre (NRC), working with patients with Huntington's Disease.
Brain tumour patient calls for greater awareness of symptoms to improve treatment pathway
28 October 2024
A patient treated at The Walton Centre for a brain tumour the size of a small orange is calling for more awareness of subtle symptoms that could be associated with a brain tumour.
“The Pain Management Programme has given me a new set of tools to help manage my Fibromyalgia”
23 October 2024
Helen Keen, 61, from Atherton in Manchester has been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia for the last nine years, but believes she’s been experiencing symptoms for much longer.
Specialist and Associate Specialist (SAS) Awareness Week
17 October 2024
To mark Associate Specialist and Specialist (SAS) Doctors this week, we spoke to Dr Leela Reddy, Associate Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine
Specialist neuroscience Trust wins NHS Parliamentary Award
16 October 2024
The Walton Centre is delighted to have won an NHS Parliamentary Awards for its work with virtual reality in neurosurgical training and education.
The Walton Centre finishes top in the region in the race for recipients
03 October 2024
As part of Organ Donation Week in late September, The Walton Centre took part in the Race for Recipients to raise awareness of organ donation. Through some amazing staff efforts running, walking, cycling, swimming, rowing and other distance exercise, Team Walton finished top of the leaderboard in the region, and second - out of over 180 centres - nationally!
A great effort to raise awareness of a really important subject.
Update from shadow joint committee for Liverpool Adult Acute and Specialist Providers (LAASP)
27 September 2024
The shadow joint committee – which includes the chairs and chief executives of the five trusts – met for the first time on 19th September 2024.