At our hospitals, we deal with some of the sickest patients and we have expanded our Critical Care Outreach Team to improve the care our hospitals offer. The team led by Becky Hammond looks after any patients who are clinically deteriorating or acutely unwell. They arrange for patients across all specialties within the Trust, including medical, surgery and the emergency [...]
Our Trust is always looking at ways to improve the experience of our patients and reduce the times they are waiting for their planned operations, so it was great to see surgeons carrying out two high intensity theatre lists in one day. Twenty patients had their routine day case operations as part of the all-day lists – known as HIT [...]
Last week, we supported World Cancer Day which raises awareness of cancer and encourages its prevention, detection and treatment. Waiting for a diagnosis, or to have cancer ruled out, is an incredibly worrying and anxious time for patients and their loved ones, and our Trust and the rest of the healthcare system are working hard to reduce the time patients wait. There was positive [...]
The £16.2m decarbonisation project at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is really taking shape with a crane lifting water and heat pumps into position on the roof of the Treatment Centre. Rooftop solar panel works have also started with the framework now in place and the first delivery of panels due this week. A water source heat pump and an [...]
Our Trust has managed to reduce waiting times by a third which is great news for our patients as they are being treated faster due to improvements. We realise that there is more work to do, but we are so proud of clinical and operational teams who have made this happen. Latest figures show that the number of patients waiting [...]
Improving care for our patients is so important to our Trust and I would like to talk about the remarkable progress that has been made in our diabetes service with the creation of an in-house team. The new team made up of four podiatrists are passionate about their roles and in the words of Nicky Beard, Podiatry Diabetes Lead, they [...]
It was incredible to see that we are one step closer to transforming patient care for our communities with the topping-out of new four-storey facilities at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). Leaders, colleagues and project partners celebrated the significant milestone for RSH at a ceremony last week. Part of the ceremony included colleagues leaving a lasting legacy by placing handprints on [...]
We are doing all that we can to reduce any disruption to our services during the Resident Doctors’ strike action, which starts today (Wednesday). Resident doctors who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are striking from 7am today (Wednesday 17 December) to 7am on Monday 22 December. Wherever possible, we are running services as normal, so if [...]
This week we welcomed our first patients to two new, modern wards at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), which will make a huge difference to our patients. The wards are now home to gastroenterology and surgical services, providing an additional 56 inpatient beds. Patient Gary Footman was the last patient to move from Ward 25, which will now undergo some refurbishments [...]
It is fantastic news that we now have new cameras that can monitor the radiation dose which is given to cancer patients at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Our Trust is the first in the country to use DoseRT, which can monitor the dose during radiotherapy treatment. The cameras work alongside the new linear accelerator machine (LINAC), which is a vital tool [...]
