6 May 2020 Rebeccah Davies A Midwife at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust(SaTH) has won a national award for her work in helping colleagues to support each other. Rebeccah Davies, Labour Ward Coordinator, was named the Gabby Dowds-Quinn Members’ Champion at this year’s Royal College of Midwives (RCM) annual awards, held on International Day of the [...]
5 May 2020 SaTH is committed to maintaining the safety of its staff and Maternity Services users and remains open for care during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Nicola Wenlock, Directory of Midwifery, said: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, pregnant women may feel anxious about accessing our Maternity Services. We want to make it clear that we are taking full precautions, in [...]
28 April 2020 A pair of teachers who ran a marathon around their six metre garden have helped raise thousands of pounds for the charity that supports staff at Shropshire’s acute hospitals. Dan Pritchard and Liam Deery’s incredible feat was the highlight of a weekend of activity as fundraisers sought to fill the charity gap left by the postponement [...]
30 January 2020 New mums in Shropshire feel cared for during labour and birth and have their concerns taken seriously, a new survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found. The 2019 CQC Maternity Survey found that women cared for by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) had confidence and trust in the staff caring for them [...]
6 November 2019 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has developed an e-learning programme to support maternity and emergency teams treating unexpectedly unwell newborn babies in community settings, in partnership with Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Wendy Tyler The Midwifery Identification, Stabilisation and Transfer [...]
14 November 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) strives to give the safest and kindest care to all mums and babies we look after. Most of the time birth is a normal, natural and joyous event. Very occasionally a birth does not go well. Sometimes that is unavoidable - a baby may have conditions that are [...]
8 October 2018 Consultants at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have issued an open letter to the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales stating their support for the Trust's leadership. The letter can be seen below: To the people of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and Mid Wales, We would like to thank the local [...]
7 August 2018 A team representing the Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to take on the world’s fastest zipline to raise money to improve care for patients at the end of their life. Jules Lewis, centre, with Dr Terri Porrett and Roy Lilley at the Swan Bereavement Suite at RSH. The team, headed up by [...]
6 August 2018 Almost 500 nominations have been submitted for an annual awards ceremony which celebrates the work of staff and volunteers at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Many of the nominations for the Values in Practice (VIP) Awards have come from patients and relatives who wanted to thank staff for the treatment they had received at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) [...]
8 May 2018 The family of a five-year-old girl, who were given £400 to treat themselves after their daughter’s hospital treatment, have donated the money to the ward who looked after her. Isabelle with Dawn Isabelle Chubb was admitted to the Children’s Ward at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford at the beginning of December last year after [...]
