Paula’s Updates
Updates from our Interim Chief Nursing Officer
Welcome to weekly updates from our Interim Chief Nursing Officer Paula Gardner. They will help to keep patients, members of the public, colleagues and everyone else with an interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS 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.
19 February 2026
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 [...]
11 February 2026
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 [...]
28 January 2026
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 [...]
21 January 2026
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 [...]
7 January 2026
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 [...]
24 December 2025
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 [...]
17 December 2025
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 [...]
10 December 2025
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 [...]
19 November 2025
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 [...]
12 November 2025
Resident Doctors’ strike action starts on Friday morning and we will be doing all we can to reduce any significant disruption to our services. Our Trust will work hard along with other healthcare organisations to [...]