8 March 2017 A new Director of Nursing and Quality has been appointed at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Deirdre Fowler Deirdre Fowler has been appointed to the role at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital, in Telford. Deirdre, who is currently Director [...]
7 March 2017 A team of Doctors and Nurses from SaTH are preparing to compete in a charity fun run in support of a colleague whose newborn baby required life-saving surgery. Sandi Angus, an Emergency Medicine Doctor at PRH gave birth to her and husband Ian’s first child, Joshua, in November 2015, but within four days they were told the [...]
1 March 2017 A senior nurse at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has been invited to start the London Marathon alongside a host of celebrities having already raised more than £2,000 for charity. Phil Fewtrell Phil Fewtrell, Assistant Business Manager (Surgery) at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), will be running the world’s [...]
24 February 2017 A sculpture donated to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) by a former patient has been badly damaged by Storm Doris, which battered the region yesterday. The sculpture, entitled The Murmur of Voices, was donated by sculptor Tony Roberts for the garden at the Hamar Help and Support Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital [...]
23 February 2017 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has appointed a new in interim Director of Nursing and Quality. Colin Ovington Colin Ovington has been a Director of Nursing with four organisations, enjoying considerable experience with over 38 years in nursing. Colin, takes over from Sarah Bloomfield, will join the Trust on 6 March 2017 [...]
22 February 2017 How would you like to brighten up a patient’s stay in hospital? Now you can – by designing a greetings card for patients at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is running a competition for people to create new designs for its popular eCards. [...]
21 February 2017 We are working in partnership with the Shropshire Wildlife Trust to plant 2,000 trees at the Princess Royal Hospital and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. We need your help to plant trees at both of our hospital sites. We are holding tree-planting days on the following dates: Wednesday 22 March 2017 - Princess Royal Hospital, Telford Thursday 23 March 2017 [...]
21 February 2017 Major improvements have been made to recruitment at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals, meaning it now takes far less time to approve adverts for job vacancies. The staff involved in the first Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW) for the Recruitment Value Stream The streamlined processes were implemented after research, through a Rapid Process [...]
20 February 2017 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is urging former patients to return unwanted crutches and walking frames. Emergency teams get through hundreds of pairs of crutches every year and many are never brought back to hospital. Unreturned equipment can cost the NHS thousands of pounds a year. Crutches are only used for a short period [...]
17 February 2017 Services at Ludlow Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8am tomorrow (Saturday 18 February 2017) until 8am on Sunday (19 February 2017). Women booked to give birth at Ludlow MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU. If any women due to give [...]
