15 August 2024 Read the official notice here. Invitation from Prof Trevor Purt, Acting Trust Chair I am pleased to invite you to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 30 September, 2pm, in Room 5, Shropshire Education and Conference Centre, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 8XQ. The purpose of [...]
5 August 2024 Louise Barnett has announced that she will be leaving The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) later this year. Her departure comes after successful progress in navigating the Trust through its last four years, including through its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Independent Review of Maternity Services and the approvals process of the Hospitals Transformation [...]
02 August 2024 We are pleased to confirm the appointment of Mr Ned Hobbs as the Trust’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), following a rigorous recruitment process. Ned brings extensive strategic and operational experience, currently working as the COO at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust for the past five years and also as Deputy Chief Executive in the same Trust since [...]
15 July 2024 A fantastic new planned care hub has opened at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford meaning patients will have shorter waits for the operations they need. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs PRH and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, secured a £24million investment to build the [...]
10 July 2024 The county’s Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is now fully operational and is transforming the way that services are offered to patients – with nearly 57,000 patients seen since it first opened its doors. The purpose-built CDC is significantly increasing the number of elective diagnostic tests and scans that The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), [...]
9 June 2024 Critical care patients are benefiting from new state-of-the-art ventilators thanks to the League of Friends of Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The LoF has generously gifted eight mobile ventilators costing over £196,000 to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs RSH and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. It means clinicians caring for patients [...]
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust are pleased to announce plans to recruit a Chair in Common across the two organisations further progressing their shared ambition to improve services for the communities across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, the Black Country and borders and mid-Wales. This is an exciting step forward which will bring [...]
The county’s first Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has welcomed more than 13,000 patients for diagnostic testing since it opened, including the first patient to use its new MRI scanner. The CDC, based at Hollinswood House in Telford, currently offers appointments for pathology (blood tests) and radiology, providing extra capacity for non-urgent diagnostic testing. Its location in the community means [...]
28 December 2023 Patient diaries, with a foreword from children’s author Michael Rosen, have made an enormous difference to the care of critically ill patients at the Trust which runs the county’s acute hospitals. The diaries provide patients with an opportunity to read about the events around their critical illness through the eyes of the multi-disciplinary team and their loved [...]
19 December 2023 A message from our colleagues at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin The NHS in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is working hard to face ‘significant pressure and disruption’ this festive period with further strikes planned. Junior doctors who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) will be striking from [...]
