Ludlow Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily closed from 8pm tonight (Thursday 5 January 2017) until 8am tomorrow (Friday 6 January 2017). Midwives are still available on call for home births. Women booked to give birth at Ludlow MLU who go into labour during the temporary closure will be offered a home birth or birth on another MLU. If [...]

4 January 2017 A new café for people living with dementia has been set up by the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Karen Breese The Precious Times café will operate at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford on the last Tuesday of every month, with the first session on 24 January from 2pm – 3.30pm. [...]

Our two hospitals are currently very busy and we are asking people to think carefully about whether a trip to A&E, which can be stressful and time-consuming, is really necessary. There are a number of alternatives to A&E, which should only be used for very serious injury or illness. Sara Biffen, Deputy Chief Operating Officer at The Shrewsbury and Telford [...]

Shropshire has one of the largest colorectal cancer units in the country – and the service could grow even further if plans to transform health facilities in the county go ahead, surgeons vowed today. A total of 936 planned Colorectal Cancer operations for potential cure were carried out in the past five years at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) [...]

Patients across Shropshire are receiving a variety of services to help them recuperate thanks to close working between Therapists at Shropshire’s acute hospitals and in the community. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) Therapy teams provide support to patients needing everything from physiotherapy and occupational therapy to those needing support with their speech and language or with their [...]

Several temporary closures of our Midwife Led Units (MLU) took place during December 2016. The temporary closures were as follows: Sunday 25 December 2016: Bridgnorth MLU and Shrewsbury MLU were both temporarily closed from 8pm until 8am. Thursday 29 December 2016: Oswestry MLU was temporarily closed from 8pm until 8am. Friday 31 December 2016: Ludlow MLU was temporarily closed from [...]

Members of staff from the Facilities Department at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have completed a new Supervisor Development Programme. Members of the Facilities Department are presented with certificates by Julia Clarke, Director of Corporate Governance (left) The six-day programme, which took place one day a month over six months, was completed by 14 members of staff from teams [...]

A room for children inside the A&E Department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) has been transformed into a colourful animal kingdom. Student and artist Victoria Jenkinson Student and artist Victoria Jenkinson has spent hours painting the walls of a side room set aside for the treatment of youngsters in order to improve their hospital experience. She said: [...]

Jim Findler before A West Midlands man lost almost 10 stone in weight and has been given a new lease of life - thanks to bariatric surgery in Shropshire. Father-of-two Jim Findler, from Bilston, near Wolverhampton, had life-changing gastric bypass surgery at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in October 2015. Previously he was extremely unhappy with his weight and [...]