Our Trust is always looking at ways to improve the experience of our patients and reduce the times they are waiting for their planned operations, so it was great to see surgeons carrying out two high intensity theatre lists in one day. Twenty patients had their routine day case operations as part of the all-day lists – known as HIT [...]
19 February 2026 A team which helps the sickest patients at the county’s two acute hospitals has been expanded to improve the care offered. The Critical Care Outreach Team looks after any patients who are clinically deteriorating or acutely unwell. It covers all specialties within the Trust – including medical, surgery, maternity and the Emergency Departments at The Shrewsbury and [...]
Last week, we supported World Cancer Day which raises awareness of cancer and encourages its prevention, detection and treatment. Waiting for a diagnosis, or to have cancer ruled out, is an incredibly worrying and anxious time for patients and their loved ones, and our Trust and the rest of the healthcare system are working hard to reduce the time patients wait. There was positive [...]
12 February 2025 Surgeons have undertaken two high intensity theatre lists in one day – reducing the amount of time patients are waiting for their planned operations. Twenty patients had their routine day case operations as part of the all-day lists – known as HIT Lists – which were carried out in parallel at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. [...]
Issued by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin 9 February 2026 Patients referred by Primary Care to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) with a suspicious skin lesion are now receiving quicker assessments and outcomes thanks to the successful rollout of the Teledermatology pathway. Under the pathway, patients attend either the Community Diagnostic Centre in Telford or the Royal [...]
The £16.2m decarbonisation project at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is really taking shape with a crane lifting water and heat pumps into position on the roof of the Treatment Centre. Rooftop solar panel works have also started with the framework now in place and the first delivery of panels due this week. A water source heat pump and an [...]
28 January 2026 A crane has lifted heat pumps into position on the roof of the Treatment Centre at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in the next phase of a £16.2m decarbonisation project. Rooftop solar panel works have also started with the framework put in place and the first delivery of panels due at the end of the month. A [...]
Our Trust has managed to reduce waiting times by a third which is great news for our patients as they are being treated faster due to improvements. We realise that there is more work to do, but we are so proud of clinical and operational teams who have made this happen. Latest figures show that the number of patients waiting [...]
15 January 2026 Number of SaTH patients waiting for treatment falls by 30% in a year More than six in 10 patients at SaTH now treated within the 18-week target – up by more than 17 percentage points in a year While number of patients waiting for surgery falls by 6.5% across the Midlands, compared to 2.3% nationally Patients [...]
Improving care for our patients is so important to our Trust and I would like to talk about the remarkable progress that has been made in our diabetes service with the creation of an in-house team. The new team made up of four podiatrists are passionate about their roles and in the words of Nicky Beard, Podiatry Diabetes Lead, they [...]
