23 April 2019 The following information is from colleagues at Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Finding out what matters to local people about Shropshire Care Closer to Home is the aim of a pop-up event in Church Stretton run by NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) on Thursday (25 April). CCG staff will be at the Mayfair Community Centre on [...]
22 April 2019 The radiotherapy team at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has devised an ingenious way of helping their patients – whilst reducing the amount of plastic going to landfill at the same time. Patients with prostate cancer are to be given their own drinks bottle to help them prepare for their radiotherapy treatment in the Lingen Davies Centre. [...]
19 April 2019 Two members of staff have been commended for the kindness they showed to a patient. Sean Evans and Sam Kirk, who work in the Trust’s IT department based at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, received a call to help the patient who they initially thought was struggling to watch a video on his lap top computer. Sam [...]
17 April 2019 A team at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has developed its own newspaper to help cancer patients understand more about their treatment. Bernadette Mortiboy shows the newspaper to patient William Fearson The Radiotherapy Team based at the Lingen Davies Centre has produced Radiotherapy News, a monthly newsletter which provides information about what’s happening in the department, [...]
16 April 2019 A member of staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is preparing to run next week’s London Marathon in memory of her sister, who died from a brain tumour at the age of just 10. Lena Riemke-Maw, an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) at the Trust will take part in the world famous race on [...]
15 April 2019 A team at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is developing new ways of working to try to reduce the number of full-term babies unexpectedly admitted onto the Neonatal Unit. As part of a national project called ATAIN (Avoiding Term Admissions Into Neonatal units) to reduce admissions, the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) [...]
12 April 2019 A surgeon at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has won a gold medal at the British University Taekwondo Championships. SaTH surgeon Shko Resool with his gold medal Shko Resool, a Surgical Trainee in Vascular Surgery at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and [...]
11 April 2019 More than 150 new clinical members of staff have joined SaTH in the last three months as part of a pledge to recruit more to its ranks. Targeted recruitment drives and specialist overseas trips have bolstered the clinical workforce at the Trust, which will help to improve care for patients and their families – and support the [...]
11 April 2019 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has appointed an Interim Director of Nursing. Barbara Beal Barbara Beal will join The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, in May. Barbara is currently Interim Chief Nurse of London North West University Healthcare [...]
10 April 2019 The following information is from the Food Poverty Alliance A new website has been launched to help people in Shropshire who are struggling to afford a healthy diet. The Shropshire Larder website brings together local information on how to eat well on a budget, how to access money advice, and the location of foodbanks and other community [...]
