Hayley’s Blog

Welcome to Hayley’s blog. Hayley Flavell is the Director of Nursing here at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust and this blog provides weekly updates to keep patients, members of the public, colleagues and everyone else with an interest in our Trust informed.

We hope it helps you to understand more about the Trust, and how we work to provide the best possible care to our patients.

6 December 2023

December 6th, 2023|

The county’s first Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford is already making a huge difference for our patients, and this week a fantastic new MRI scanner worth nearly £1.4 million was welcomed.  The state-of-the-art scanner, which [...]

29 November 2023

November 29th, 2023|

This week we have seen renal dialysis services move from the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) to a new community-based unit, which will provide better facilities and a more spacious environment for our patients. We have [...]

22 November 2023

November 22nd, 2023|

Our Annual Trust Celebratory Awards were so exciting and it was a great honour to present some of the awards to the wonderful winners. We had more than double the number of nominations this year [...]

15 November 2023

November 15th, 2023|

It is National Self-Care Week and we can all make small changes to improve our health and wellbeing. Self-Care Week is a national annual event that raises awareness of what we can all do to [...]

8 November 2023

November 8th, 2023|

We are delighted that the first phase of a multi-million pound investment at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford is close to opening, improving the experience for our patients, visitors and colleagues. The re-developed main entrance [...]

1 November 2023

November 1st, 2023|

Earlier this month we welcomed patients to the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford and we are already seeing that it is making a difference. In the first four weeks, a total of 2,230 [...]

25 October 2023

October 26th, 2023|

Improving the experience of our patients is important to our Trust and a new team has been introduced, providing a one-to-one service for patients with high level care and supervision needs. These fantastic colleagues in [...]

18 October 2023

October 19th, 2023|

Our Emergency Departments (ED) remain under pressure and the Trust, along with other health and care partners, is urging residents to play their part this winter by re-thinking which service they opt for when unwell. [...]

11 October 2023

October 11th, 2023|

Voting has opened for the Shropshire Star Public Recognition Award and you can help by choosing your hospital hero. The Trust has teamed up with the Shropshire Star for one of its annual awards and [...]

4 October 2023

October 5th, 2023|

We are not currently able to offer our usual catering service at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford as the kitchen and restaurant are currently closed, but I would like to reassure you all that we [...]