Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
13 October The pathology lab at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford has experienced a flood and our teams are working hard to assess the damage and restore services. The source has now been identified and contained. Most work is being processed at PRH with the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital pathology laboratory supporting. There may be a slight delay in results [...]
13 October 2023 Saturday 14 October is National Allied Health Professions (AHPs) Day. It’s a chance for us to take a moment to celebrate our wonderful AHP colleagues and thank them for everything they do. As the third largest healthcare group at the Trust, our AHP colleagues are involved in so many vital aspects of care. There are many AHP [...]
Friday 6 October 2023 Hot meals have resumed for patients at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford after a temporary kitchen was built in just over a week. A huge amount of work was undertaken by teams at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) to install the kitchen. This follows the identification of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) [...]
The Trust that runs maternity services for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid-Wales has taken delivery of 25 new CTG (Cardiotocography) machines, 15 of which have the option of wireless monitoring, allowing women to be mobile during labour. The new CTG machines, which are used during pregnancy and labour to monitor the baby’s heartbeat, will be used in Delivery Suite, [...]
3 October 2023 A new Community Diagnostic Centre has opened its doors improving access to non-urgent scans and tests for patients across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. The new facility, which is located at Hollinswood House in Stafford Park 1, Telford, opened its first services yesterday, and welcomed its first patients. It means that patients who need non-urgent diagnostic tests [...]
Monday 2 October We would like to reassure our patients, their families and carers that we are doing all that we can to resume our usual catering service at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. This follows the identification of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in a kitchen area at the hospital and, as a precaution, we have closed the kitchen [...]
29 September 2023 A message from our colleagues at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin From Monday, 2 October at 7am both Junior Doctors and Consultants will be taking strike action, ending on 7am Thursday 5 October, so it is vital that the public continue to use services wisely. Dr Nick White, Chief Medical Officer for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, [...]
28 September 2023 We would like to inform our patients and their families and carers that we are temporarily unable to provide our usual catering service at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. We are continuing to prioritise patient meals throughout this time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. This follows the identification of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete [...]
28 September 2023 More than 600 patients have taken part in 177 research studies in the last 12 months at the Trust which runs the county’s two acute hospitals. This is being celebrated as part of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) first Research, Innovation and Improvement Week (25-29 September). One of the research studies - TOP HAT [...]
20 September 2023 A message from our colleagues at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Almost a quarter of a million people in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin can book their life-saving autumn Covid vaccine online from today (18 September) as the NHS steps up its winter vaccination programmes early in response to the risk of the new Covid variant. Anyone [...]
