12 January 2017 Health and social care partners have met to review the progress being made to strengthen  the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for the local population of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. The Sustainability and Transformation Plan aims to describe how the health and social care system can remain fit for the future, help patients to become healthier [...]

Thursday 5 January 2017 The following is a message from our partners at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) Health chiefs across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin are asking people to consider using alternatives to accident and emergency units. There has been a large increase in demand locally, and health leaders are reminding people suffering from minor [...]

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 [...]