5 December 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) will hold its first ever quality and diversity event tomorrow (6 December). The event will take place at Shrewsbury Town Football Club from 9am until 4.30pm and will include guest speakers from across the Trust. This engagement event will help the Trust work closely with stakeholders to focus on [...]
5 December 2018 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups and Shropshire Council. All residents in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin who are entitled to a free flu vaccine are being encouraged by NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG and Shropshire Council Public Health teams to [...]
4 December 2018 A member of staff at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is to take on the London Marathon in April in memory of her grandmother, who she lost to lung cancer earlier this year. Charlotte Worrall Charlotte Worrall, who works as a Breast Imaging Data-Coordinator at RSH, will be raising money for the British Lung Foundation [...]
3 December 2018 A decorator who has dedicated 30 years to the NHS was named a regional winner at the recent Healthcare Heroes Awards. Nigel Breeze with his Healthcare Hero Award Nigel Breeze, a skilled painter who works in the estates department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), was presented with his award by Casualty [...]
30 November 2018 More than 99 per cent of patients needing a diagnostic test at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals received one within six weeks, it’s been confirmed. This key target has been met every single month since February 2017, with the latest figures revealing that 99.69% of patients received a diagnostic test within six week at The Shrewsbury and Telford [...]
29 November 2018 A third of all categories inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) during a visit to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) were rated “Good” by inspectors, the Commission’s report has revealed today. Almost all services were recorded as Good for “Caring” whilst areas of outstanding practice were found in postnatal maternity care as well [...]
28 November 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is among the best in the country for making sure patients wait no longer than 18 weeks between seeing their GP and having treatment at hospital. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has hit the hit national 92% referral to treatment (RTT) for 13 of the past [...]
27 November 2018 Health and social care professionals from across the county have spent a week together to explore new ways of getting patients to leave hospital sooner so they can recover in the best possible place. The team involved in the improvement work Representatives from 10 different organisations – including Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning [...]
26 November 2018 The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has made a fantastic donation of £43,000 enabling SaTH to purchase two new microscopes, which are already helping patients. The Olympus and Nikon consultant grade microscopes were bought for the Cellular Pathology Team; and both have integrated cameras which will help with teaching and presentations to multidisciplinary teams. [...]
22 November 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has today secured the middle grade doctors and nurses needed to allow the A&E department at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to stay open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. A mixture of locum and agency middle grade doctors are now committed to rotas in the A&E until the end of March 2019. [...]
