Our Palliative Care team gifts colourful knitted kindness hearts as a poignant keepsake to bring comfort to the families of patients who are receiving last hours and days of life care at our hospitals. They are now appealing for keen knitters to help make some more as we are now running low on stock. The hearts can also be crocheted. [...]
30 May 2025 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is trialling a new way of working to reduce the time patients are waiting for routine surgery. A High Intensity Theatre (HIT) list was carried out to safely treat more patients waiting for a hernia operation. These procedures are planned and can be carried out on the same day. [...]
29 May 2025 Colourful knitted kindness hearts are helping to bring comfort to the families of patients who are receiving last hours and days of life care at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The Palliative Care team gifts the hearts as a poignant keepsake – one that stays with the patient and others which are given to the patient’s loved [...]
29 May 2025 Helen Troalen, Director of Finance at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, has announced she is taking up a new role in June as the Interim Chief Finance Officer for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Helen has successfully navigated the Trust through the last four years, advancing the organisation’s transformation journey, to improve the [...]
28 May 2025 A dedicated Home Birth Team has been launched by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). The team will provide a home birth service to women and their families in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Mid Wales. Women who choose to birth at home will have a named midwife to provide antenatal and postnatal care. [...]
Luke Butler successfully completed the London Marathon on 27 April in 3hours 11minutes and raised £3,161 for SaTH Charity to give back to the Neonatal Unit where his daughter, Ella was cared for in 2022. Luke was one of 56,000 taking part in this year’s TCS London Marathon. Ella, was born at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham at 24 [...]
The OWEN room has been provided for staff dealing with bereavement, to be able to have important conversations in a calm, inviting, comfortable and safe space. It forms part of the OWEN model, which was created by Jules Lewis, Swan End of Life Care Facilitator, Lead Nurse and Lead for Staff Bereavement Support Service, and Jules Lock, Lead Swan [...]
SaTH Charity has helped the Trust go greener by purchasing new bike racks for colleagues and patients travelling to William Farr House (Shrewsbury). The previous bike racks were old and unable to be used unusable, so SaTH Charity applied to the Small Things Big Difference Fund to purchase and install the ‘toaster’ style racks. Within minutes of them being installed [...]
Luke Butler successfully completed the London Marathon on 27 April in 3 hours 11 minutes and raised £3,161 for SaTH Charity. Luke wanted to give back to the Neonatal Unit where his daughter, Ella was cared for in 2022. Ella was born at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham at 24 weeks and four days gestation, weighing 1lb 10oz. She spent [...]
The Children and Young People’s Unit (CYPU) in the Emergency Department at RSH recently received a bumper pack of crayons from their Amazon Wishlist. The area has posters up in the unit advertising their Wishlist and this time a grateful parent purchased the team 144 crayons. Emma Millington, Play Practitioner, said: “We are so grateful for every item we [...]
