As reported in the Express and Star today, a new bus route is set to begin running next week that links two of the regions main hospitals.
The 549 bus service will take passengers between Walsall Manor Hospital and New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
Visitors have today been banned from entering New Cross Hospital after the outbreak of a vomiting bug. Over 20 members of staff have been taken ill with highly infectious norovirus bug, which causes sickness and diarrhoea.
Following on from our Parking Crackdown story in November, it now looks certain that double yellow lines will be painted outside New Cross Hospital in order to ease congestion caused by hospital visitors parking in the road. The lines are set to be painted opposite the main entrance to the hospital on Wolverhampton Road and […]
As of Monday 30th November, the 559 bus service operated by National Express West Midlands which runs from Wolverhampton city centre via New Cross Hospital and Wednesfield to Ashmore Park has been reduced. Buses now run every 6 mins instead of every 5 mins on weekdays & Saturdays and whilst the result is only 1 […]
New Cross Hospital was recently given a glowing review by the Care Quality Commission. A review of the Hospital for 2008/2009 deemed the quality of services at New Cross “excellent” and the quality of financial management as “good”. The review also shows that Hospital standards have improved in all areas year-on-year since 2006. Read the […]
Double Yellow Lines photo by FreeFoto A storm is brewing as Wolverhampton City Council plan to increase the double yellow lines on roads near New Cross Hospital in an attempt to stop visitors from parking on the roadside. Council bosses are about to begin a consultation on extending the double yellow lines in order to […]