20 February 2019 The Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Quality at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is to leave her post to take up a new role closer to her family. Deirdre Fowler, who has been with SaTH since May 2017, is taking up a new post with Bedford Hospital NHS Trust. Deirdre joined SaTH, which runs [...]
19 February 2019 Three members of the NHS are helping to organise the return of a popular music festival which helps homeless and vulnerable people in Shrewsbury. Back row from left, Karen Higgins, Dave Burrows and Karen Paterson with Tim Compton from Shrewsbury Ark and other members of the Busk organising team Karen Higgins, Karen Paterson and Dave [...]
15 February 2019 The first two houses being renovated in a bid to attract doctors to Telford's Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) have been completed. SaTH Chair, Ben Reid, talks to Leader of Telford & Wrekin Council, Shaun Davies at one of the refurbished doctors' houses The houses opened at PRH following a DIY SOS-style appeal. The project, spearheaded by [...]
14 February 2019 The Local Maternity Service (LMS) in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of pregnant women being more aware of their unborn baby’s movements. It follows a campaign launched by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) last year to spread the message that unborn babies don't stop [...]
13 February 2019 A new panel which brings together hospital staff and volunteer patient representatives at an equal level has been unveiled to give patients, carers and members of the public more of a voice at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The Patient and Carer Experience (PaCE) Panel has been unveiled by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which [...]
8 February 2019 The Joint Committee of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) has approved Option 1 of the NHS Future Fit plans which means PRH will become a dedicated Planned Care site and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) will become a specialist Emergency Care site. By having a separate Planned Care site, patients will wait less [...]
7 February 2019 New mums in Shropshire are confident in the care they receive during labour and birth, a new survey has found. The 2018 survey of maternity care, carried out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) also found that women using services at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) were treated with dignity and respect during labour [...]
6 February 2019 A charity fun day to celebrate the birth of the NHS will again be held at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Soccer skills at last year's fun day The fun day will take place at the Shropshire Conference Centre (SECC) in the grounds of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on Saturday 6 July. [...]
4 February 2019 A unique partnership means that new mums who are apart from their premature babies being cared for in Shropshire’s neonatal unit, can still provide them with their breast milk. The neonatal team at SaTH has joined forces with The Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire Blood Bikes to give mums the chance to feed their baby with their own [...]
1 February 2019 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is renewing a call for nurses to join its Nurse Bank. The call, from the Trust which runs The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, follows the launch of a campaign in October 2017, which included adverts on the back of buses and targeted email [...]
