- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Best Start Programme
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Care management
- Children’s Community Therapies & Nurse Services
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community rehabilitation
- Community Respiratory
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Continence
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- District nursing
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Foot Health
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Heart failure
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infant Feeding Team
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy (Community Musculoskeletal) Service
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- School Nursing
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Tissue Viability
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
- Wheelchair services
- Young Parents Maternity Service
- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
Elderly Care
We provide a high quality and comprehensive service for people over 70, specialising in the treatment of falls, heart failure and movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease. We also offer general assessment for other conditions, including dementia.
We provide a high quality, comprehensive, needs-led service service for older members of our community specialising in the treatment of falls, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, continence, dementia, heart failure and palliative care. We see medical patients of all ages admitted via accident and emergency and have responsibility for ongoing hospital care on general, stroke and rehabilitation wards. There are two-day hospitals for assessment and ongoing treatment as day cases within the Trust. We work across three hospital sites and a number of community settings.
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Team
Consultants
Dr Asim Majeed
Speciality Lead Consultant
Dr M Oo
Special Interest: Parkinson’s disease, General Geriatrics, Community Geriatrics
Dr Naqvi
Orthogeriatrics and General Geriatrics
Dr Lawrence Greensall
Special Interest: Parkinson’s disease, General Geriatrics
Dr Grace Shorthouse
Specialist interest in Frailty
Locum Consultants
Dr Mohammad Kamal
General Geriatrics
Dr Abdul Afridi
General Geriatrics
Matron
Samantha Walden
Services
Inpatient services
Provided at: City Hospital and the Sheldon Block (rehabilitation) Sandwell Hospital, Rowley Regis Hospital (rehabilitation), Leasowes (intermediate care in Smethwick) and Ryland View Nursing Home (palliative/continuing care in Great Bridge).
We provide most inpatient services for stroke and TIA (transient ischaemic attack) including rapid access TIA assessment and stroke thrombolysis. Orthogeriatric care is provided on a daily basis to the orthopaedic wards. We provide a referral-based service to other hospital speciality areas.
Outpatient services
There are a wide range of outpatient clinics on different sites to allow assessment and treatment of patients. We continue to develop these in partnership with the local primary care trusts.
Day Hospital
There are two day hospitals – one at Rowley Regis Hospital and another at City Hospital in the Sheldon Block. There is a clinic-based assessment and treatment centre at Sandwell Hospital. The day hospitals are bases for many of the specialist clinics and also provide on going outpatient rehabilitation.
Patient Stories
Please feel free to share your experiences of this service. Please e-mail your views to swbh.comms@nhs.net
Patient Information
AgeUK
National charity supporting older people
www.ageuk.org
Alzheimer’s Society
National charity supporting those with Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
www.alzheimers.org.uk
Patient UK
Website designed for the public
www.patient.co.uk
Birmingham Carers Centre
charity supporting all carers in Birmingham
www.birminghamcarerscentre.org.uk
CARES
Charity supporting unpaid carers in Sandwell
www.carers.org/local-centre/sandwell
Sandwell Link
Volunteers and organisations who live, work and care in Sandwell
www.sandwelllink.org
Contacts
Department telephone numbers:
City Hospital: 0121 507 4925
Sandwell Hospital: 0121 507 3748
