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Introducing our new weekly feature, '60 seconds with.....' where we'll be sharing a quick fire Q+A with a member of The Walton Centre team so you can put a face to a name and get to know a little bit more about our staff! Starting us off is our Chief Executive, Jan Ross...

Over the last three years, the Neuropsychiatric Team has grown into a comprehensive service for both inpatients and outpatients seven days a week here at The Walton Centre.

Christmas 2021, Karen Parry, from Prescot, was making her way up to bed after a work night out when she fell down the stairs, hitting her head badly on the hall floor. Karen was rushed to the Aintree Trauma Unit. From there she was transferred to The Walton Centre for life-saving brain surgery.

It's Dietitians’ Week this week (20 to 24 June) and to mark the week and shine a spotlight on this profession, the Trust’s Principal Dietitian Amy Carter took part in a Q&A for Health Education England.

Trust has received Centre of Excellence status after delivering outstanding fully endoscopic spinal surgery to patients in Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales.

To highlight Tourette's Syndrome Awareness day 2022, 20 year-old Artist Emily Bridges shares her experience of having the condition

My name is Emily and I am 32 years old. I was diagnosed as having epilepsy when I was 12 and have been diagnosed as having absence and tonic-clonic seizures.

Over the last 25 years, Rob Anderson from Warrington has been experiencing epileptic seizures which proved difficult to control – until April last year, when The Walton Centre carried out a temporal lobectomy.

New guidelines for the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) have been published, the first UK guidelines for the condition. The Walton Centre pain consultant, Dr Andreas Goebel, was one of the lead authors.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out a new service using cutting-edge treatment for people living with Essential Tremor – a neurological disorder that causes an uncontrollable shake or trembling in a part of the body.

The Walton Centre Charity is launching a new fundraising event this spring – Walk for Walton! Sign up today to join in!

This year The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating its 30^th birthday!

Miss Catherine McMahon is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Lead for Trauma and Hydrocephalus here at The Walton Centre. To highlight International Women's Day, she has looked at how women feature in Neurosurgery, and the need for numbers to increase

After collapsing on the high street in Southport holding her baby son, 26 year old Jennifer Dorian was told she had a small brain tumour near her occipital lobe.

Leading clinicians in rehabilitation have come together to write a new book on the interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach to complex physical rehabilitation.

The Walton Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Max Steinberg CBE as the Chairman of The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.

When Matthew Brooks woke up one morning with a headache, he knew that what he was experiencing was unusual. He went to Whiston Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department, and later investigations revealed that Matthew had an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM).