We have today issued a special edition of our Putting Patients First Newsletter. This edition focuses on our Sustainable Services Programme and provides a greater level of detail around the preferred option. Whilst NHS Future Fit is currently on hold, work is still ongoing to develop The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Sustainable Services Programme, which feeds into this. The [...]
24 January 2017 Consultants in Shropshire today shared how they have explored the benefits and pitfalls of transforming emergency care from other organisations which have been through similar experiences. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) proposes creating a single Emergency Centre at either the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) or Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford with Planned Care [...]
The following is a statement from Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, following Monday night’s Joint Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meeting about NHS Future Fit. You can read a CCG statement about that meeting here: https://www.sath.nhs.uk/news/work-needed-allow-nhs-future-fit-move-forward/ Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), said: “Our area's acute emergency service [...]
Doctors at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals believe proposals to separate emergency and planned care will significantly reduce cancelled hospital operations. Mr Joe McCloud, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at SaTH The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) cancelled 775 planned hospital operations in theatres last year, with approximately half being because of a lack [...]
The following is a message from David, Evans, Senior Responsible Office, NHS Future Fit. Details about SaTH's Sustainable Services Programme (which feeds into NHS Future Fit can be found here. People will have woken up this morning to see headlines telling them that A&E is to close at Telford and a new Emergency Department will be built at Shrewsbury. The most [...]
Senior hospital staff today spoke of their hopes for the future as health care leaders continue work to address challenges in critical and emergency care to improve patient safety. The Sustainable Services Programme drawn up by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) describes Trust plans to address the significant challenges to the safety and sustainability of patient services, specifically [...]
The Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has welcomed a decision by commissioners to support Trust’s plans to address challenges in emergency and critical care. The Board of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group today voted to support the Strategic Outline Case(SOC) of the Sustainable Services Programme, presented by SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess [...]
The majority of patients who currently attend Shropshire’s two A&Es will still go to the same hospital as they do now if one of the emergency departments closes. Patients currently treated for a variety conditions at the A&E Departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford would not need to travel to a new, single [...]
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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH)Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme describes potential solutions to the challenges of Accident & Emergency and Critical Care provision in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. Here, SaTH Chief Executive Simon Wright describes the document and why change is needed: We’re committed to providing the best service possible [...]
