Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
14 May 2026 Patients are waiting less time for their planned care thanks to improvements being made to reduce waiting lists. Patients are having their tests and scans much quicker and hundreds more outpatient appointments and operations are taking place each month to ensure timely access to planned care and treatment. The improvements are being made by Shropshire Community [...]
From Tuesday 26 May 2026 the phlebotomy (blood taking) service at Princess Royal Hospital will relocate from Malling Health building to the main hospital, near Pharmacy. Clear signage will be in place to direct patients to the new location. This move is part of our ongoing commitment to improving patient flow and service accessibility within the Trust. Patients continue [...]
13 May 2026 Patients are benefiting from improved weekend-discharge processes, thanks to closer collaboration between therapy teams, the Care Transfer Hub and discharge colleagues at Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Community and Hospitals NHS Group. The changes are already delivering results, with weekend discharges increasing by 7%, with the most significant improvement seen on Sundays. Traditionally, some patients who were [...]
12 May 2026 More than £80,000 has been gifted to Shropshire’s two acute hospitals to benefit patients needing prostate surgery - meaning they will now be able to have their care closer to home. The generous donation from the League of Friends of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital has been used to buy specialist urology theatres equipment to treat [...]
12 May 2026 The Chief Executive of the NHS Group, which provides acute and community healthcare in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, has been named as one of England’s top NHS trust leaders. Jo Williams is listed at number 10 in the Health Service Journal’s (HSJ) top 50 NHS trust Chief Executives - a prestigious industry ranking. Jo is Group [...]
Issued by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin It is Mental Health Awareness Week 2026, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, the week runs from 11–17 May 2026 and this year’s theme is “Every action counts – for yourself, for someone else, for all of us.” This Mental Health Awareness Week, [...]
5 May 2026 Professor Jason Kasraie, Head of Fertility Services at the Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre, has been appointed President of the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS). Jason, who will serve a three-year term, brings a wealth of experience and leadership to the role, with a focus on supporting ARCS members and assisting and guiding the [...]
1 May 2026 Work to install new entrance doors to the rear of the Admin Hub/Entrance Block at Princess Royal Hospital will start on Tuesday 5 May. The works are due to take three weeks and during this period access to the hospital entrance will be diverted to either side of the entrance block. Access to the offices, Market Express, [...]
16 April 2026 A temporary food hub is now being moved back into the Apley Restaurant area of the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) as work progresses to safely remove Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC). Specialist teams have removed RAAC panels and are close to finishing this phase of the work, so that the servery, which will provide temporary catering facilities [...]
15 April 2026 An X-ray window which checks breast biopsy samples is reducing patients needing to return for further biopsies – the kit was bought thanks to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Charity. The additional X-ray window, which fits to the existing screening machine, has allowed both mammography rooms at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to offer the same service for [...]
