This is up sharply on the equivalent numbers for the same week in 2023, when the total was 221 with nine in critical care. It also included three at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust ...

The trust includes Sandwell General Hospital, City Hospital in Birmingham ... a "worrying number of patients being admitted" into critical care units with respiratory failure as a result of ...

Dominic Cox, 26, from West Bromwich, returned to the former critical care unit at Sandwell General Hospital to meet Sister Jo Cella. "My Dommy," she sobbed as she threw her arms around him ...