10 December 2018 Innovative new information boards, designed by staff to improve care for their patients, are being trialled at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. ITU Staff Nurse Andre Goncalves with the 'About Me' boards ‘About Me’ boards have been introduced into the ITUs at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. They have [...]
6 December 2018 Easy-to-use, free Wi-Fi for patients and staff will be rolled out across Shropshire’s acute hospitals next week. The new system, which launches on Monday (10 December) will replace the current ‘token’ system used by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust to make it easier for users to get online. Users will also be taken to a [...]
5 December 2018 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups and Shropshire Council. All residents in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin who are entitled to a free flu vaccine are being encouraged by NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG and Shropshire Council Public Health teams to [...]
4 December 2018 A member of staff at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is to take on the London Marathon in April in memory of her grandmother, who she lost to lung cancer earlier this year. Charlotte Worrall Charlotte Worrall, who works as a Breast Imaging Data-Coordinator at RSH, will be raising money for the British Lung Foundation [...]
26 November 2018 The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has made a fantastic donation of £43,000 enabling SaTH to purchase two new microscopes, which are already helping patients. The Olympus and Nikon consultant grade microscopes were bought for the Cellular Pathology Team; and both have integrated cameras which will help with teaching and presentations to multidisciplinary teams. [...]
22 November 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has today secured the middle grade doctors and nurses needed to allow the A&E department at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to stay open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. A mixture of locum and agency middle grade doctors are now committed to rotas in the A&E until the end of March 2019. [...]
21 November 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has today moved to strengthen its leadership. Two new directors will join the Board at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) as the organisation continues to face a number of challenges and opportunities over the coming months. A Director of Clinical Effectiveness and a Director of Strategy [...]
21 November 2018 A teenager who climbed the Wrekin with her friends to mark her 16th birthday has raised £350 for the hospital team who saved her life when she was just six-weeks-old. Harriet and her friends at the top of the Wrekin Harriet Bagguley took the challenge to raise money for the Children’s Ward at the Princess [...]
16 November 2018 Pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Shropshire will soon be able to manage their condition remotely by using a smartphone app. The app will be used by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) from December and means that women will be able to better manage their condition, and potentially reduce the number of visits they [...]
15 November 2018 A resuscitation officer at the trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, who has landed a place in the London Marathon, has come up with a unique plan to boost her fundraising, while teaching people valuable skills which could save a life. Nicola Bishton will be running the London Marathon next April Nicola Bishton, who [...]
