Extended suspension of services at Oswestry MLU

9 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be suspended until 25 February 2018 to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Our mums are choosing to have their babies in our Consultant-led unit over our rural MLUs, such as Oswestry. To protect their safety during the birth, we are having to look [...]

Extended suspension of services at Oswestry MLU2018-02-09T17:17:04+00:00

NHS 111 service to take calls out-of-hours across Shropshire From July 2018

9 February 2018 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) From Tuesday 3 July, 2018 people across Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire who need urgent GP out-of-hours medical help or advice will need to call 111. This is because the current Shropdoc telephone number will no longer be in use [...]

NHS 111 service to take calls out-of-hours across Shropshire From July 20182018-02-09T12:10:05+00:00

SaTH switches to ‘greener’ drinking straws

9 February 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is switching to biodegradable drinking straws as it continues its efforts to reduce its environmental footprint. Catering Operations Manager Ian Stuart with the new biodegradable straws The straws will be available, when required, at the Caffe Bistro outlets and the canteens at both the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) [...]

SaTH switches to ‘greener’ drinking straws2018-02-09T11:39:14+00:00

Oswestry MLU – Temporary suspension of services

8 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Thursday 8 February) until 8am tomorrow (Friday 9 February). The decision has been made because of on-going short-term staff sickness which continues to affect the midwifery service. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry who go into labour during the temporary suspension of [...]

Oswestry MLU – Temporary suspension of services2018-02-09T11:58:53+00:00

Temporary suspension of services at Oswestry MLU

7 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Wednesday 7 February) until 8am tomorrow (Thursday 8 February) because of on-going short-term staff sickness affecting the midwifery service. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Oswestry MLU2018-02-09T11:59:24+00:00

Temporary suspension of services at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit

6 February 2018 Services at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Tuesday 6 February) until 8am tomorrow (Wednesday 7 February) because of short-term staff sickness. Women booked to give birth at Bridgnorth who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU or the Consultant-Led Unit [...]

Temporary suspension of services at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit2018-02-07T15:37:21+00:00

Birthing services to resume as Shrewsbury MLU relocates

2 February 2018 Mums-to-be will be able to deliver their babies at Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) when it relocates next week. The MLU is being relocated to another part of the Copthorne Building at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to allow further repair work to take place after last month’s heavy snowfall caused damage to the roof. Birthing and [...]

Birthing services to resume as Shrewsbury MLU relocates2018-02-02T15:11:43+00:00