Each year thousands of appointments are missed by patients, which means that others are waiting longer to be seen and it also costs the NHS money. In April alone, 1,000 patients did not attend blood test appointments at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Princess Royal Hospital and the Community Diagnostic Centre in Telford, and Whitchurch Community Hospital. We understand that there [...]
3 May 2024 The Critical Care Garden at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was reopened after extensive work to improve access for patients, thanks to the support of charity. The kind donations of William Dodd’s family to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Charity enabled works to the Critical Care Garden to be undertaken. The local butcher died in [...]
May bank holiday weekend is approaching and I would like to encourage you to ‘Think which service’ should you need any health care during this time. Our emergency departments (EDs) continue to be extremely busy but more so during bank holidays. EDs are for genuinely life-threatening emergencies – for example chest pains or severe bleeding or burns. If you have [...]
I would like to start my column this week by thanking colleagues who were involved in the launch of the first phase of the Trust’s major digital upgrade at the weekend. Work on the new Patient Administration System (PAS) started on Friday – it is a mammoth task with colleagues working tirelessly to ensure its smooth transition. The PAS is [...]
25 April 2024 Please be aware that from Friday 26 April to Wednesday 1 May there will be ongoing survey works outside the Outpatients entrance of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The works will then move to the grass mound over the next week. These works are part of the Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP) enabling works, and will involve [...]
22 April 2024 The Trust, which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, is building a bunker for a new linear accelerator, improving the treatment of cancer patients. The linear accelerator (also known as a LINAC) will be a replacement for a current machine, which is soon to be decommissioned. It is a vital component in the treatment of cancer patients [...]
Teamwork, sweat, fundraising and a lot of mud will take centre stage for members of the Orthodontic and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) department as colleagues across the department get ready to take part in the Shropshire Mudrun on Saturday 27 April. Tackling the 5km route (which will involve slipping and sliding over obstacles, crawling through tunnels and a [...]
A team of 10 people from Muller Dairies in Market Drayton are tackling the UK’s 3 Peaks Challenge. The team will be climbing the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours on Saturday 4 May. Each person in the team has chosen a charity close to their hearts and Alice Shingler chose SaTH Charity’s Neonatal [...]
The annual SaTH Charity Football Tournament is taking place on Sunday 19 May, and 14 teams have signed up to raise money for the Dementia Fund appeal. We are so impressed by the fundraising efforts of each team this year, we thought we would showcase a few. Today we are focusing on the respiratory ward team at the Royal [...]
19 April 2024 Due to unforeseen circumstances with our catering supply chain, we are unfortunately temporarily reducing our catering offer for patients from Saturday 20th April – Monday 22nd April at both the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). We are doing all that we can to resume the service and will keep you informed [...]
