9 November 2018 A teenager who will turn 16 in two weeks’ time is planning a fundraising trek up one of Shropshire’s most recognisable landmarks to raise money for a hospital team who saved her life when she was just six weeks old. Harriet Bagguley Harriet Bagguley is planning to climb the Wrekin with friends and family to [...]
8 November 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to receive additional support as it seeks to address historic issues in the way its services are delivered. NHS Improvement (NHSI) today announced that The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) would be placed into ‘special measures’, which will provide increased support and oversight from NHSI to [...]
8 November 2018 SaTH is to hold its first ever Cancer Conference featuring a host of speakers including Chris Pointon, husband of the inspiring Dr Kate Granger MBE and co-founder of the #hellomynameis campaign. The Conference, entitled ‘Cancer: Advancing into the Future’ is being sponsored by Macmillan Cancer Support, and will take place on Friday (9 November) at the Shropshire [...]
7 November 2018 A hospital ward with a higher than average vacancy rate has transformed the way it works to make it a more attractive place for staff, while offering a safer and kinder environment for patients. The team on the gastroenterology and colorectal surgery wards at RSH Recruiting nurses to work on gastroenterology and colorectal surgery wards [...]
6 November 2018 The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre will celebrate its move to a new state-of-the-art facility with an official opening on Saturday 10 November – when staff will be joined by families who have been helped by the service. The centre, which is one of the top IVF clinics in the country, moved to the Severn Fields Health [...]
5 November 2018 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is delighted to announce that a third cohort of Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) have enrolled onto a Nursing Associate programme. Twenty one HCAs from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have joined the two-year programme, which is hosted by Staffordshire University. The exciting and innovative role will sit [...]
2 November 2018 Almost every mother at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has had skin-to-skin bonding with their newborn babies, the latest figures show. Immediate skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby has "lasting benefits" for both, according to experts, including protecting babies from infection and encouraging them to breastfeed. The latest year-to-date figures show that 2,327 of [...]
1 November 2018 Patients needing a high level of care are being given back their independence thanks to a creative team at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). Anthony Dukes was the first patient to use the new ‘wash table’ and described it as ‘marvellous’. Also pictured, from left, Susie Price (Healthcare Assistant), Corrin Dorsett (Ward Manager) and Sean Roberts [...]
1 November 2018 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are leading the way in protecting staff from violence and aggression. This week Matt Hancock, MP, the Secretary of State for Health, set out new measures to protect NHS staff to try to reduce the thousands of assaults on them that take place every year. Measures in the NHS Violence Reduction Strategy include: [...]
31 October 2018 A team that performs thousands of heart scans at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals every year has enhanced its reputation for high quality and innovation. From left, Emily Challinor (Clinical Physiologist) and Sian Botley (Associate Practitioner) with the certificate from the British Society of Echocardiography. Cardiac ultrasound scanning – echocardiography or simply echo – is the [...]
