The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is relaunching its award-winning People’s Academy as an online course in November 2021. The People’s Academy has been successful in helping local people understand more about the NHS and their local hospitals and will be delivered in a series of four two-hour sessions over four weeks using Microsoft Teams: The NHS Our [...]
The Volunteer Team are working in partnership with St John Ambulance to deliver the NHS Cadets Programme at SaTH. This programme targets young people aged 14-18 from communities that are underrepresented within the health eco-system to inspire them into pursuing a career in the NHS, whether that is in a clinical or non-clinical setting. As part of the advanced programme, [...]
Girlguiding Shropshire have created 2 beautiful mosaic Rainbows to be displayed at The Princess Royal Hospital and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. The girl guides held two activities days in Attingham Parks ‘Field of Play’ where everyone was invited to add their own part to the mosaic. Rebecca Harding, Shropshire Girlguiding Leader, said: “The Girlguiding Shropshire 'Together at Attingham' event was [...]
An update from our colleagues at Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) 5 October 2021 Routine blood tests for patients in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have resumed as the shortage of blood test tubes has eased. Work is now taking place to clear the backlog of non-urgent blood tests which were paused on NHS England (NHSE) guidance. [...]
Local Cinema and Charity, Wellington Orbit, have shown their appreciation to our Staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) and purchased a bench for the use of staff on their breaks. Phil Morris-Jones, Chairman of Wellington Orbit said “We [Wellington Orbit] wanted to show our love for the NHS staff at Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury [...]
SaTH Charity are delighted to be part of 24 charities featured in ‘Advent for Others’. Together, we’ve taken the core idea of the advent calendar and put a charitable twist on it. Instead of getting chocolate behind each door there’s a local charity that will receive a share of the money raised from the calendar sales. So, by purchasing this [...]
29 September 2021 A training exercise will be carried out at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on Wednesday 29 September as part of a multi-agency exercise. The exercise forms part of the Trust’s emergency preparedness activities and will see our staff responding to a simulated scenario in readiness for if they should ever be required to respond to a real major [...]
20 September 2021 Given the current pressures in the NHS generally and at SaTH specifically, and the uncertainties these might be causing, we thought it would be useful to give an update on the position of our maternity services. With COVID-19 numbers still high – certain parts of the local communities around our hospitals have infection rates significantly above the [...]
Members of Staff Emma Feely and Sue Bennett will both be running marathons this weekend to raise money for SaTH Charity. Emma Feely, who is running the Virtual London Marathon, said” I’m raising funds to support the Dementia Team at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals. They do really valuable work and need extra resources. My wonderful Grandad passed away in [...]
Local man, Andrew Walmsley, has raised over £1200 for the SaTH Charity Breast Cancer Fund by completing a sponsored cycle challenge. Andrew, a self-confessed amateur cyclist, set himself the challenge of cycling from his home in Whitchurch, to the Princess Royal Hospital then onto the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and then returning home – a distance of approximately 60 miles, all [...]
