15 July 2025 A message from the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board: New local teledermatology service continues to speed up cancer diagnosis across the county. The service, which launched at the county’s first Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford early last year, enables dermatologists to remotely triage patients using high spec images of people’s skin taken by [...]
10 July 2025 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Neonatal Unit has achieved the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Stage Two accreditation. The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is a global programme that enables health professionals to better support families with feeding and developing close and loving relationships so that all babies get the best possible start in [...]
We have now launched our wonderful annual Trust Celebratory Awards and we are asking members of the public to nominate their hospital hero. It is the chance to nominate a team or individual who has made a remarkable contribution or has shown exceptional compassion and dedication in their role at our hospitals or the wider community. The Public Recognition Award [...]
9 July Issued by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has today launched a new campaign — ‘Think Twice, Order Right’ — to help reduce the estimated £2.6 million worth of medicines wasted unnecessarily across the area every year. Almost 40% of this waste could be avoided – and everyone can play a part in [...]
09 July 2024 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust held a celebration to mark the contribution of their members of staff who have completed 25, 40 and even an incredible 50 years of service. Over thirty-five members of staff with more than 1,000 years’ experience between them, who work at both Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal [...]
7 July 2025 Construction work currently underway at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital is making the most of modern technology to ensure maximum efficiency and precision. Working with sub-contractors, JCS Interiors Ltd, Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP) contractors, Integrated Health Projects (IHP), have enlisted the help of the Kobots cutting robot. Shipped from Denmark, the new equipment will support the installation of [...]
7 July 2025 Three purpose-built clinics rooms for a £1 million research study that could reduce the amount of time patients are waiting and worrying about a colorectal cancer diagnosis have officially opened their doors. More than 1,000 patients have been recruited for the year-long TRIOMIC trial, which uses a new testing method, since it was launched last year. [...]
SaTH Charity has recently purchased a specialised stretcher designed for patients requiring Fluoroscopy X-rays. Cardiology staff stood next to the stretcher The ‘fluoroscopy’ stretcher was purchased for the Cardiology Service and will greatly enhance the experience for our patients. As the stretcher is designed to be used during an X-ray, it reduces the need to reposition patients [...]
04 July 2025 Members of the public have the chance to nominate their hospital hero, as the Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals gears up for its fantastic annual Trust Celebratory Awards. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is giving people across Shropshire and mid-Wales the chance to nominate teams or individuals who have made a remarkable contribution [...]
03 July 2025 The Government's 10 Year Health Plan for England has been launched, setting out a bold, ambitious and necessary new course for the NHS. The plan fundamentally reinvents our approach to healthcare so that we can guarantee the NHS will be there for all who need it for generations to come. It has been shaped by the [...]
