WHH's Safety Huddle is one year old today! Staff from all wards/services/depts 'huddle' for 15mins each morning and has seen 376 alerts/information shared, 156 challenges and solutions sorted, 14 Halt moments dealt with and 206 lovely Bright Spots celebrated. This fantastic patient safety initiative has been shortlisted in the prestigous national Patient Safety Awards to be announced in Manchester in July as well as being finalists in the Safety and Health Excellence Awards and the - thank you #TeamWHH for making WHH even safer for our patients!!

The trust’s Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Orthodontic department are supporting National Smile Month and are encouraging the public to learn a little more about why a healthy smile is so important and share tips on how to improve and maintain it.

The Warrington Intensive Care Support Group was founded to allow patients and their family and friends to meet together in an informal setting and talk about their experiences and concerns.

A unique opportunity to get a 'behind the scenes' look at Cheshire and Merseyside's Leading Orthopaedic Centre as part of our 'Experience of Care' Week. Meet the surgeons and teams and tour theatres, radiology, physiotherapy suites. Lean more about our new hospitals plans for Warrington and Halton plus our new My Choice offer - By the NHS, for the NHS. Registration essential as places are limited, FREE parking and refreshments for attendees; email whh.communications@nhs.net or via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-scenes-at-cmtc-open-day-tickets-60534211456

Building upon the Let’s Do It Together campaign we launched in December, leading up to and during the Easter Bank Holiday, (Monday 15th April until Tuesday 23rd April) across the NHS in Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington we’ll be running a joint social media campaign.

The legal right to a personal health budget has been extended to people who access wheelchair services, through Personal Wheelchair Budgets (PWB), which is replacing the current wheelchair voucher scheme.

Warrington and Halton Hospital’s Nutrition and Dietetic team are once again supporting this year’s Nutrition and Hydration Week (11-17th March). This year’s focus is on ‘Reinforce, Focus and Energise’ and to highlight the importance of nutrition and hydration.

Dawn Wright, an associate practitioner at Warrington Hospital’s Emergency Department has been living with cervical cancer since December 2017 and continues to work throughout her diagnosis and treatment.

Come along on Saturday 9th March, 10:00am - 2:30pm in the Antenatal Clinic in Croft Wing, Warrington Hospital.