Pregnant women will be able to listen to their own music whilst giving birth at the Midwife Led Unit in Telford – thanks to a kind donation. Healthwatch Telford and Wrekin (HWTW) donated a set of portable Bluetooth speakers to the Wrekin Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) at the Princess Royal Judith Ockenden, Patient Experience Advisor; Wendy Cutchie and Kate Ballinger [...]
An outdoor gym will be created at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to support the health and wellbeing of staff and the local community – thanks to a £10,000 grant from Tesco. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs RSH and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, applied for a grant from the supermarket’s Bags of [...]
Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have this week seen a rise in A&E attendances, and are asking people to think about where they will get the quickest and best medical attention for their condition. The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford are seeing the effects of winter, which traditionally brings additional demand caused by problems such as [...]
The following statement is from our colleagues at Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). A joint committee meeting of NHS Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Groups today agreed not to go to public consultation while more work is carried out It means that without a preferred option or options a public consultation will not now [...]
All media enquiries regarding Christmas and New Year births should be made via switchboard on 01952 641222 to the Delivery Suite Coordinator, who will be able to assist with information about births at the Trust’s maternity units. Please note we are only able to offer details and pictures with the full consent of the family. Thank You.
From left: Sue Lewis, Mary Pascoe, Pat York, Julie Bayley, Carole Copplestone and Mr Tamoor Usman A Shrewsbury club has donated £1,000 to benefit women receiving treatment for breast cancer in Shropshire. The Inner Wheel Club of Shrewsbury made the donation to the Breast Service at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Carole Copplestone, President [...]
The NHS Future Fit Programme Board today (Wednesday 30 November 2016) agreed proposed options for the future of emergency and critical care in Shropshire. The preferred option proposes a single Emergency and Trauma Department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) with a Planned Care Site at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, along with Centres at both sites which [...]
The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is taking steps to improve care following the reporting of a number of ‘never events’. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has reported six never events since September 2015, following a period of more than three years without recording any. Never events are described as events that are preventable because [...]
With temperatures falling below zero, Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are beginning to see a rise in A&E attendances, and are asking people to think about where they will get the best medical attention for their condition. Year-on-year hospitals across the country are seeing an increase in the number of people attending Emergency Departments and the number of people who are [...]
Doctors at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals believe proposals to separate emergency and planned care will significantly reduce cancelled hospital operations. Mr Joe McCloud, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at SaTH The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) cancelled 775 planned hospital operations in theatres last year, with approximately half being because of a lack [...]
