Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
30 April 2019 The coffee shop and restaurant at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) have been awarded five-star hygiene ratings. The team at SaTH celebrate receiving their five-star food hygiene award. Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) gave the rating to Caffe Bistro and the main Mytton Restaurant during a recent inspection. Shelley Gooding, Food Safety Compliance Manager at The [...]
30 April 2019 The following information is from Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) Health and care organisations across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have boosted their combined leadership team to deliver their ambitious plans to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. Jill Robinson and Martin Harris The Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Sustainability [...]
29 April 2019 An appeal is being made for knitters to help create blankets and even bags for patients living with dementia whilst they are in hospital. The Dementia Team at SaTH is looking for people to help knit or donate colourful knitted blankets. Karen Breese and Lucy Davies from the dementia team at SaTH The blankets help [...]
26 April 2019 A new menu for patients who have difficulty swallowing will be rolled out across Shropshire’s acute hospitals next week. The Catering Team, Speech and Language Team and Dietetics Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have worked together to create three new colour-coded, menus for patients with dysphagia, whch adopt the language and design [...]
25 April 2019 Entries are now open for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s 5K Fun Run to celebrate the birth of the NHS. The event, which is being organised in partnership with the Dolly Mixtures Running Group, starts at 9.30am on Saturday 6 July at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Entry costs £10 and all the money raised will [...]
24 April 2019 Work has started on a new Doctors’ Mess which is being created at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. It is hoped that the new facility will provide a welcoming and caring environment for staff, and also help recruitment to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the PRH and the Royal Shrewsbury [...]
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 [...]
23 April 2019 Staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust (SaTH) are being encouraged to sign up as ambassadors to Nursing Now, a national initiative that raises the profile and status of nurses worldwide and inspires the next generation by shining a light on the exciting breadth of careers available within the industry. Clare Walsgrove, Matron Unscheduled Care, [...]
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 [...]
