Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
02 June 2025 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is rolling out a patient engagement portal (PEP) from the provider DrDoctor. The PEP will enable patients to access more information on their mobile devices, with the ultimate aim of improving patient experience and saving costs of printing. The implementation of the PEP began in April, with a [...]
Monday 2 June 2025 A message from NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Launching on 1 July, the new Optometry First services, commissioned by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, will mean people across the county can access more eye care closer to home. The contract, awarded to Primary Eyecare Services, a not-for-profit primary care optometry organisation, follows a tender process [...]
30 May 2025 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is trialling a new way of working to reduce the time patients are waiting for routine surgery. A High Intensity Theatre (HIT) list was carried out to safely treat more patients waiting for a hernia operation. These procedures are planned and can be carried out on the same day. [...]
29 May 2025 Colourful knitted kindness hearts are helping to bring comfort to the families of patients who are receiving last hours and days of life care at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The Palliative Care team gifts the hearts as a poignant keepsake – one that stays with the patient and others which are given to the patient’s loved [...]
29 May 2025 Helen Troalen, Director of Finance at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, has announced she is taking up a new role in June as the Interim Chief Finance Officer for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Helen has successfully navigated the Trust through the last four years, advancing the organisation’s transformation journey, to improve the [...]
28 May 2025 A dedicated Home Birth Team has been launched by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). The team will provide a home birth service to women and their families in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Mid Wales. Women who choose to birth at home will have a named midwife to provide antenatal and postnatal care. [...]
Luke Butler successfully completed the London Marathon on 27 April in 3hours 11minutes and raised £3,161 for SaTH Charity to give back to the Neonatal Unit where his daughter, Ella was cared for in 2022. Luke was one of 56,000 taking part in this year’s TCS London Marathon. Ella, was born at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham at 24 [...]
23 March 2025 Two new Associate Non-Executive Directors have been appointed to the Board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Professor Heidi Fuller, Head of School for Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy at Keele University, and Jon Sargeant, former Chief Financial Officer at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Trust, joined SaTH last month. As a senior academic [...]
23 May 2025 At NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, we want to hear from local people about what growing older means to you — and how we can better support healthy ageing and people living with frailty across the county. As the population ages in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, with over 118,000 people aged 65+ today and numbers expected [...]
A £1 million research study taking place at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford has reached a major milestone in its aim to revolutionise the diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The trial, being run by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), has now recruited more than 500 patients from Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin in its study, which [...]
