Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
22 June 2021 All 18 to 39-year-olds across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin are now able to go to a walk-in COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine clinic. The walk-in clinics make it easier and more convenient for eligible people who haven’t had their vaccine to come forward. The clinics aim to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake across the county. Walk-in Pfizer clinics for [...]
21 June 2021 The Trust that runs maternity services for women in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales has created a new User Experience card system to ensure women and their families are listened to and that their voices are heard. Working with The Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP), The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS [...]
21 June 2021 Rhia Boyode and Nigel Lee with Group Captain Phil Wadlow, Station Commander RAF Shawbury The Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals has reaffirmed its commitment to the fair treatment for current and former members of the Armed Services and their families. As part of Armed Forces Week, and ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday, [...]
18 June 2021 People who are aged 40 and above across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin are being urged to go to a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic if they haven’t been vaccinated already or if they’re due for their second dose. The pop-up clinics are being held at Shrewsbury Indoor Bowls Centre and Telford International Centre as follows: Shrewsbury Indoor [...]
17 June 2021 A doctor at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) who fled war-torn Afghanistan to start a new life in the UK has released his incredible memoir. Waheed Arian’s earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometimes 10 to a [...]
17 June 2021 The next meeting of the Ockenden Report Assurance Committee (ORAC) will take place on Thursday 24 June from 9am-11.30am. The event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. To live stream the event please click here. ORAC was formed to drive forward actions arising from the first Ockenden Report into maternity services, which was published in 2020. The [...]
15 June 2021 The Trust that runs maternity services for women in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales has launched a video for new parents and care-givers that provides a host of information on what to expect from life at home with a newborn. The new, 10-minute-long video, funded by the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) and produced [...]
14 June 2021 The following information is from the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Integrated Care System The health care system in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin has developed a new vision and set of principles to enhance learning disability and autism care for local people living with a learning disability and autistic people living with or without a learning disability [...]
14 June 2021 Members of the public are being asked to nominate their hospital heroes as the Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals prepares for its first ever virtual awards. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, will hold its virtual staff awards on [...]
11 June 2021 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals is to hold a lecture on its journey to become ‘Veteran Aware’, which will include the remarkable story of a former serviceman who survived post-traumatic stress disorder to take up a role at the Trust. Paul Twitchell The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) online health lecture [...]
