L-r - sister Robyn Barrie, clinical support worker Lesley Bucknall and sister Rebekah Flight with some of the donations SCHOOLCHILDREN across the Dudley borough have been getting creative and putting their pens to paper by making and donating written Christmas cards to give to patients in hospital on Christmas Day. After the success of its Inpatient Christmas Card Appeal last year, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has been reaching out to schools across the borough, asking them to donate handwritten Christmas cards that will shared with patients having to spend Christmas at Russells Hall Hospital. Church of the Ascension Primary School, Sutton School, Pegasus Academy and Crestwood School and Sixth Form have all been getting involved, bringing the total number of donated cards to more than 1,000.
The Dudley Group is part of the urgent public health REMAP-CAP research to find which treatments work best COVID-19 patients in the borough will have access to some of the newest treatments thanks to Dudley s hospital trust being the top national recruiter in treatment trials. The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Russells Hall Hospital, is part of the urgent public health REMAP-CAP research project to find which treatments work best. It has recruited more patients than any other trust in England to trial convalescent plasma and immune modulation therapies. After a virus, blood plasma contains antibodies that help fight infection and the trial aims to determine if a transfusion of plasma from someone who has recovered from coronavirus may help people who are still ill.