Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
24 July 2025 The NHS is working hard to keep patients safe during planned strikes while delivering the best care possible, and patients should continue to attend appointments as planned unless contacted to reschedule. The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced strike action by resident doctors from 7am on Friday 25 July until 7am on Wednesday 30 July. During [...]
23 July 2025 Fewer patients are waiting for planned procedures and appointments at Shropshire’s acute hospitals – with no children or young people waiting longer than a year for their treatment. In the last nine months, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust has reduced the overall number of patients on its elective care waiting list by 20%. The [...]
18 July 2025 Staff at a hospital Trust have been nominating teams and individuals for Moving to Excellence awards for those who have made a remarkable contribution or shown excellent compassion and dedication in their role. The Moving to Excellence Awards will be held every two months and are open to all staff from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital [...]
18 July 2025 With construction well underway of a four-storey expansion, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is inviting patients, members of the public and staff to help shape the look and feel of this important new space, as well as the naming conventions and themes for locations within the new building. The multi-million pound investment, as [...]
17 July 2025 Healthcare workers from two NHS trusts have completed a dedicated leadership programme which will support the organisation to deliver excellent and inclusive care for patients. The staff from both The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust (Shropcom) have graduated from Galvanise, an ethnic minority leadership programme. The aims of [...]
15 July 2025 A message from the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board: New local teledermatology service continues to speed up cancer diagnosis across the county. The service, which launched at the county’s first Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford early last year, enables dermatologists to remotely triage patients using high spec images of people’s skin taken by [...]
10 July 2025 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Neonatal Unit has achieved the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Stage Two accreditation. The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is a global programme that enables health professionals to better support families with feeding and developing close and loving relationships so that all babies get the best possible start in [...]
9 July Issued by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has today launched a new campaign — ‘Think Twice, Order Right’ — to help reduce the estimated £2.6 million worth of medicines wasted unnecessarily across the area every year. Almost 40% of this waste could be avoided – and everyone can play a part in [...]
09 July 2024 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust held a celebration to mark the contribution of their members of staff who have completed 25, 40 and even an incredible 50 years of service. Over thirty-five members of staff with more than 1,000 years’ experience between them, who work at both Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal [...]
7 July 2025 Three purpose-built clinics rooms for a £1 million research study that could reduce the amount of time patients are waiting and worrying about a colorectal cancer diagnosis have officially opened their doors. More than 1,000 patients have been recruited for the year-long TRIOMIC trial, which uses a new testing method, since it was launched last year. [...]
