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.
27 November 2024
This is my final column and I would like to say a huge thank you, and to those I have worked alongside for the last four years. I have had the absolute privilege of working [...]
20 November 2024
It was good to recognise colleagues who go above and beyond at this year’s Trust celebratory awards. The spotlight was put on the amazing achievements of my colleagues and I enjoyed meeting the finalists [...]
6 November 2024
If you are unwell and you need help, it’s important to know which service best suits your needs. This winter, our Trust along with other health and care partners are back with an updated guide [...]
30 October 2024
A special thank you goes out this week to young Finley-Jay who makes special trips to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital to hand out goody bags to ambulance crews. It is such a lovely and kind gesture [...]
23 October 2024
Our Emergency Departments (ED) are extremely busy and our Trust, along with other health and care partners, is urging people to think about which service they opt for when unwell. The Think Which Service Campaign [...]
16 October 2024
We asked you to nominate a hospital hero from our Trust who had gone the extra mile for the Shropshire Star Public Recognition Award and you sent us in some fantastic contenders – we have [...]
9 October 2024
We sometimes need to have important conversations about end-of-life care and it helps if staff and relatives can talk in a calm and dedicated space. Last week, a fully refurbished Swan Suite was officially opened [...]
2 October 2024
Today is the first anniversary of the county’s Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) opening its doors and in that time it has seen more than 72,000 patients. This is an incredible achievement with the number of [...]
25 September 2024
A key milestone has been reached with the plans to improve hospital care for our communities. Signing the contract with Integrated Health Projects (IHP) for the design and build of a modern four-storey building [...]
18 September 2024
The first session of the cancer support group Men Like Us was held in Ludlow recently and I am told it went well with 16 men turning up and chatting like old friends by the [...]