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The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust will feature in a fascinating documentary series over the next eight weeks, about neurosurgery at the specialist hospital this autumn.

In 'Trauma Room One' viewers will see patient stories from cutting-edge robotic spinal surgery to urgent stroke interventions, all led by leading staff at the specialist hospital. The series starts on Wednesday 25 October until mid-December.

The Walton Centre is the latest NHS Trust to join the Gloves Off campaign, which aims to reduce the use of non-sterile disposable gloves for non-infectious patients.

First NHS hospital in the UK to use an innovative ‘tilt table’ for patients needing immediate rehabilitation, after an incredible fundraising campaign by The Walton Centre Charity.

On Friday night (22/09/2023) we had the pleasure of hosting our 2023 Staff Celebration and Awards, to honour the fantastic work of our staff over the past 12 months. 

To recognise Bisexual Awareness Week 2023, our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager Emma Sutton writes about her own experience with bisexuality and what it means to them today...

An innovative camera system is being rolled out in The Walton Centre’s Hyper Acute Rehabilitation Unit to enhance monitoring of our most vulnerable patients.

A patient from The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust has pulled a nine tonne lorry 20 metres to raise thousands of pounds for the hospital’s charity.

New figures out today reveal that there were 19 patients who donated their organs after death at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust last year, helping save or improve the lives of 4,532 people desperately in need of a transplant across the UK.

NHS Trusts across the North West are working together to improve the process for people diagnosed and treated for a brain tumour following a visit to A&E.

Liverpool Philharmonic and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to launch a new partnership supported by The Walton Centre Charity and the Foyle Foundation. The organisations will work together using music to improve the health and wellbeing of patients with neurological and neurosurgical conditions, their families and carers, as well as staff at The Walton Centre. 

Professor Tony Marson, Consultant Neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Liverpool, has been selected to join a fellowship of outstanding biomedical and health researchers.

To celebrate ODP day this year, Lead ODP Oliver Tierney reflects on his career the operating department, and how the role has changed over the years.

A new Staff Wellbeing Hub has been opened at The Walton Centre, offering a comfortable and relaxing space for staff to get away from their workspace, access resources or just simply take some time for themselves.

“It’s been an extraordinary decade since my diagnosis and I’ve been cared for so well by The Walton Centre. I have a great consultant, and the nursing team are on hand if I have any questions or if I experience something unusual. The whole experience has prompted me to think more about my body and how I look after it."

In 2017 Ian Perry, 65, from Formby, started experiencing the first symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. While working here at The Walton Centre, he was fixing the heating in the Outpatients department when one of the hospital’s clinicians recommended they seek a referral from their GP. Weeks later a diagnosis was confirmed.

One of The Walton Centre’s Pain Medicine consultants’ Dr Andreas Goebel has recently attained a professorship with the University of Liverpool, after demonstrating substantial progress in research into causes and new treatments for chronic primary pain.

Alun and Clare Evans were doing some last-minute Christmas shopping and visiting friends, when they got a phone call telling them their 18-year-old son Tudur had been in a bad car accident.