Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
Last week saw the launch of the Birth Preferences Card across our Maternity Service. The card, co-produced by our Maternity team and the Maternity Voices Partnership Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, aims to enable service users to discuss their birth preferences with their care team and support partners in full. This will also assist clinicians to have a clear visual [...]
Patients and carers are being invited to take part in Speciality Patient Experience Groups. Their views are crucial to the Trust and could help shape future services by sharing their valuable insight and perspective. The speciality groups include the areas of medicine, emergency, surgery, women’s health, maternity, and children and young people, support services and corporate services. These groups will [...]
Ben Phillips A doctor has praised leisure centre staff for using a defibrillator to save the life of a swimmer. Father-of-two Ben Phillips, pictured, suffered a cardiac arrest when he was swimming underwater at Oswestry Leisure Centre pool and blacked out. His girlfriend alerted leisure centre staff who pulled Ben from the pool. He was resuscitated by the [...]
18 March 2022 A message from our colleagues at the CCG A national service to improve access to more complex GP appointments, by referring patients with minor illness to pharmacists for treatment, has been launched by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The NHS GP referral to Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) has been introduced to the [...]
16 March 2022 They usually work behind the scenes at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals but healthcare scientists are crucial to the NHS and often offer life-saving care. As part of National Healthcare Science Week (14 -20 March), The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford is [...]
16 March 2022 An appeal is being made to knitters to help create blankets for patients at high risk of falls, for while they are staying at Shropshire’s acute hospitals. The Falls Prevention Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is looking for people to knit or donate the blankets to use in a trial. It is [...]
15 March 2022 Following a review with our clinical teams and system partners, the critical incident has now been stood down. Due to the hard work and close cooperation of all involved, all services have been resumed as normal. Thank you for your patience.
15 March 2022 Today (15 March) marks the first ever National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Day. Jessica Greenwood, Lead Cancer Nurse at SaTH and Strategic Lead for Cancer – Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin CCG, said: “We are really proud to be taking part in the first ever National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day. The National Cancer Workforce Plan (2017) [...]
We are pleased to announce that our Tongue Tie Assessment Clinic is running again following the service being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The specialist clinic takes place weekly at the Children’s Outpatient Department at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. Previously, the service supported babies up to 28 days old but we are pleased to now be able [...]
8 March 2022 Today is International Women’s Day and here at SaTH we are celebrating the achievements of all women within our organisation. Here, we put the spotlight on two colleagues – Emma-Jane Beattie, Emergency Planning Officer, and Jenni Rowlands, Acting Deputy Medical Director. Emma-Jane Beattie, Emergency Planning Manager “As an NHS organisation we are required by law to [...]
