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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. 

Congratulations to Dr Antonella Macerollo who has been appointed to the North West CRN Advanced Research Scholars Programme

This International Women's Day, CEO Jan Ross reflects on the strong women of The Walton Centre

Lighting firm Circada kickstarts its’ campaign to change people’s relationships with their natural body clock with the launch of the inaugural pilot at The Trust – the first Trust in the UK to take part.

In April 2022, James from Warrington was struggling down his own garden path to get his neighbours attention, so they could call him an ambulance. James was suffering from a Stroke, which was caused by a massive bleed on the brain. 

Ahead of a more complicated surgery here at The Walton Centre, Clare wanted to take on a monumental challenge to raise money for The Walton Centre Charity.

The amazing staff of The Walton Centre were recognised in the annual staff awards this week, celebrating their dedication to the very best patient treatment and care. 

The Walton Centre is pleased to announce Irene Afful has joined the Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director.

In October last year, Liverpool FC Women's Goalkeeper Rylee Foster was involved in a serious road accident in Finland, which meant she was thrown from the vehicle at high speed.

In April 2022, Jamie Hardesty and his wife Sammy went on an adventure holiday to North Wales. While on a solo hike on Mount Tryfan, Snowdonia, Jamie tried to climb down to a ledge and fell 30ft down the mountain, landing on his back. 

Continuing our regular feature, '60 seconds with.....' where we share 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! This week we hear from Katy Walker, Advanced Critical Care Practitioner.....

A new service aimed at reducing the impact of one of the most devastating symptoms of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is being piloted at The Walton Centre