21 May 2018 Unborn babies don’t stop moving. That is the message that the trust which runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals wants to drive home in a major campaign. Claire Murgatroyd, Antenatal Ward Manager and Jill Whitaker, Matron for Consultant Unit Maternity Services, with the current folder Nationally and locally women say they want more information about their babies’ [...]
18 May 2018 Inpatient services, including births, at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be temporarily suspended for four weeks from Sunday 20 May. Births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs, which are currently suspended, will continue to be temporarily suspended for a further four weeks. This is to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Oswestry, [...]
18 May 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has announced a new fundraising campaign to support patients living with dementia. SaTH has marked the start of Dementia Action Week (May 21-27) to launch its Blue Butterfly Appeal. From left, Lucy Davies (Dementia Support Worker), Clive Knowles (owner of the British Ironwork Centre), Karen Breese (SaTH’s Dementia [...]
17 May 2018 A charity collection box has been stolen from a shop run by the League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). The League of Friends donation box was taken from the charity’s shop in the Outpatients of RSH some time last night (Wednesday 17 May 2018). The collection box was later found empty in a gents’ [...]
16 May 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is taking part in the Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative (MNHSC), which aims to improve the safety, reliability and clinical effectiveness of maternal and neonatal services across England. The Trust’s Head of Midwifery Sarah Jamieson, Clinical Director for Maternity Adam Gornall, and Lead Midwives Jill Whittaker and Louise [...]
15 May 2018 Nurse Melissa Compton is taking the ultimate plunge – and will swim across the Channel in a 22-mile fundraising relay with three friends. Melissa Compton, who works in ITU They will be aiming to swim in relay between Dover and Calais – with each member swimming for an hour in succession until they [...]
11 May 2018 The following information is from our partners at NHS Future Fit People across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales are to be asked for their views on proposals to transform local hospital services when the NHS Future Fit public consultation is launched later this month. The board of NHS Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) [...]
10 May 2018 A team of nurses will be donning their walking boots – and their pyjamas - to climb the Wrekin this June. Highlighting the #EndPJParalysis campaign The nurses have pledged to complete the challenge on June 23, to raise awareness of NHS England’s #EndPJparalysis campaign to encourage patients to get out of their pyjamas – and [...]
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 [...]
The following information is from Public Health England Up to 309,000 women aged between 70 and 79 will be offered the opportunity for a catch-up NHS breast screening test this year. The decision follows analysis by Public Health England (PHE) dating back to 2009, which found that a number of invitations for a final test had not been sent out [...]
