St Jude's Hospital

Mayor's Visit to St. Jude's (27/6/11)

On Thursday 23rd June, Wolverhampton Mayor Bert Turner visited St Jude's for a 12th Anniversary party. This was a great opportunity to talk about the clinic and our future plans with a small group of staff, recent patients Wolverhampton’s dignitaries.

Visit our facebook page to see some pictures of the event:

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Below, is a video of the Mayor, Mr. Adeghe and some of our patients talking about their experience with St Jude’s.

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Video Consultations at St. Jude's (27/6/11)

St Jude's is please to now offer video consultations via Skype to patients unable to attend in person. We recognise that patients have busy schedules and can struggle to attend routine consultations. A video consultation allows you to discuss your fertility issues with our highly qualified team from the comfort of your home. Video sessions last approximately 45 minutes and cover the same issues as a standard in-person initial consultation. You'll benefit from the following:

Full discussion of your medical history, and review of your past test results
Recommendations for additional tests and investigations
Guidance on available treatment options with emphasis on best success rate given your particular medical history, age, diagnosis, etc.
Written summary of consultation sent by e-mail within 24 hours.

To arrange a video consultation, contact us. We will email/call back to arrange a suitable time.

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4D Scans in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme (28/2/11)

St Jude’s now offers high quality 4D scans from our office in Staffordshire, serving patients in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Thanks to a new state-of-the-art General Electric Voluson ultrasound scanner, you can experience the excitement of seeing your growing baby in more detail than ever before.

Another St Jude's success story (28/11/10)

St Jude's was recently highlighted in a Sentinel newspaper article on the availability of NHS funding for fertility treatment. The article discusses the journey of Marie and Mark Crutchley whose two children were conceived at St Jude's.

From the Sentinel:

"She eventually conceived her son Ethan, now aged four, after their third cycle of IVF in February 2006. She carried out a pregnancy test at 4am because she couldn’t wait any longer. She added: “I ran upstairs screaming when I got a positive and Mark fell out of bed and injured his shoulder. “I just couldn’t believe we’d done it. I had told myself I was never going to have a baby and become a mum and then to find out I was pregnant it was amazing.” Ethan was born five weeks early in October 2006 and almost immediately Marie knew she wanted another child."

"Both Marie’s children were conceived after treatment at St Jude’s Women’s Hospital in Wolverhampton, which now has a sister clinic at Sandy Lane in Newcastle. She adds: 'They are so wonderful at that clinic - to them you are a person and not a number. I owe them everything.'"

Click here to read the full article.

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St Jude's on Facebook (15/7/10)

St Jude’s now has a Facebook fan page. Visit us to receive news of developments in our services. We are happy to answer any questions you have about any aspect of treatment and our clinics in Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent.

Click the image below to become a fan.

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St Jude's Patient's Guide (6/7/10)

We are pleased to announce the release of a new Patients' Guide to St Jude's. This brochure gives some background to our hospitals and outlines our primary services.

Click here to download a pdf copy. Alternatively, you can contact us to request a copy in the mail.

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Results of St Jude's fertility treatment draw (15/1/10)

From the Express and Star:

Three couples are celebrating after winning the ultimate Christmas present – the chance to become parents.

St Jude’s Women’s Hospital, Wolverhampton, offered as a prize a course of IVF treatment, usually worth thousands of pounds.

Lee and Emma Sherwood, of Wednesfield, David and Sharon Palmer, of Stourbridge, and Gina Crossley and Jeffrey Haynes, of Rugeley, have been named winners after being drawn at random from 120 couples who entered the draw for the treatment, which costs more than £4,000.

Emma Sherwood, who has been trying for a baby with husband Lee for three and a half years, said the prize was a great Christmas present.

The 25-year-old healthcare assistant said: “We’re so excited but also very shocked.” Emma and 27-year-old Lee, a self-employed aerial and satellite dish fitter, have already had two failed cycles of IVF treatment.

For David and Sharon Palmer, of Pedmore, the win could not have come at a better time. David suffers from epilepsy, and although the couple, both 32, had saved for IVF treatment, the cash had to be spent on David’s own treatment.

“We are absolutely over the moon,” he said.

“I have also been off work, so the money had to help pay for the household bills.

“It’s been the best Christmas present possible.”

The couple entered the draw after seeing an article about the competition in the Express & Star.

They had already had two courses of treatment, both of which failed.

Jude Adeghe, consultant gynaecologist and medical director at St Jude’s in Penn Road, said: “It’s wonderful to be able to give a gift like this to these couples.

“We have three very excited couples.”

The private hospital, which was named in the top 10 fertility clinics in the country in 2008, ran a similar competition three years ago.

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Free fertility treatment at St Jude's

To give something back to the Wolverhampton community in the run-up to Christmas, St Jude’s is offering three couples a free cycle of fertility treatment.

From the Express and Star:

"Three couples were today being offered the change of IVF treatment worth more than £13,000 for free by a Wolverhampton clinic.

St Jude’s Women’s Hospital in Penn Road is making the gesture following a similar scheme three years ago held to mark the clinic’s 10th birthday.

The clinic sees more than 150 couples each year. Couples are asked to write into the clinic and explain why they should have IVF treatment.

Three names will be drawn at random on December 12.”

I you would like to be considered, please provide us with the following:

Name and date of birth of each partner
Contact address
Telephone number
Copy of one form of identification, for each partner. e.g. passport, drivers licence

Information can be provided by emailing us at clinic@stjudeclinic.com, putting "Fertility Draw" in the subject line. Alternatively, you may write to us using the address on the contact page.

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St Jude's Open Day on Thursday 24th September

St Jude's is holding an open day on Thursday 24th September from 4pm to 7pm for anyone who wants to know more about the services we will be providing to Wolverhampton PCT from October 2009. We'd be happy to show you round our premises and to answer any questions about the hospital. See here for details of where we're located.

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St Jude's launches The Fertility Training Centre (7/9/09)

St Jude's is launching a Fertility Training Centre to assist clinics and practitionersi in the UK and overseas looking to update skills and knowledge of best practice, nurses seeking to learn or enhance practical and theoretical capabilities and GPs wishing to develop a special interest in the area of infertility

See our Fertility Training Centre page for more details.

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St Jude's wins contract to provide fertility services to Wolverhampton PCT (7/9/09)

St Jude's is proud to announce that it is the new provider of assisted conception services to Wolverhampton City PCT. The decision to appoint St Jude's was made following a competitive tendering process and was based on a variety of factors which include our excellent success rates and the quality of our facilities. The new contract takes effect from October 2009 and runs for three years initially.

We look forward to extending our service strengths, such as flexible appointments and regular consultant contact, to those seeking NHS funded treatment.