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The National Director for Primary Care and Community Health Services for NHS England, Dr Amanda Doyle, visited the Sandwell Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) Hub in May, located at Glebefields Health Centre in Tipton.

Staff and visitors at Walsall Manor Hospital are being invited to discover their blood type and help a local charity to save lives across the borough’s communities.

Mothers of premature babies discharged from Walsall’s Neonatal Unit will be offered a breast milk supplement so they can continue to be fed this way at home with extra nutrition.

Creative young people from the BAME community are being invited to play their part in an exciting arts and heritage project around Windrush following a grant secured through The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) Charity.

More than 1,600 care homes beds across the Black Country are now using remote monitoring technology to help support and manage the health and wellbeing of residents.

More than 90 people attended a Race and Inequalities Summit in May, to highlight the work happening across the Black Country to reduce health inequalities and address racism

Specialist Midwives across the Black Country have been working on a host of initiatives to make Maternity Services more equitable and inclusive – including staff sessions to highlight and support communities’ cultural needs.

Midwives across the Black Country, who make a daily difference to families’ lives, are being thanked and celebrated today.