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 [...]
23 March 2025 Two new Associate Non-Executive Directors have been appointed to the Board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Professor Heidi Fuller, Head of School for Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy at Keele University, and Jon Sargeant, former Chief Financial Officer at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Trust, joined SaTH last month. As a senior academic [...]
23 May 2025 At NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, we want to hear from local people about what growing older means to you — and how we can better support healthy ageing and people living with frailty across the county. As the population ages in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, with over 118,000 people aged 65+ today and numbers expected [...]
A £1 million research study taking place at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford has reached a major milestone in its aim to revolutionise the diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The trial, being run by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), has now recruited more than 500 patients from Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin in its study, which [...]
