Ben Phillips A doctor has praised leisure centre staff for using a defibrillator to save the life of a swimmer. Father-of-two Ben Phillips, pictured, suffered a cardiac arrest when he was swimming underwater at Oswestry Leisure Centre pool and blacked out. His girlfriend alerted leisure centre staff who pulled Ben from the pool. He was resuscitated by the [...]
20 August 2019 A couple have praised staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) for their treatment and care after their baby was born by emergency Caesarean following a car crash which happened while they were on their way to hospital – leaving them both with badly broken ankles. Mike and Ginny in hospital with Amber [...]
8 March 2019 Healthcare professionals have spent the week looking at plans for Shropshire’s two acute hospitals to ensure the proposed layouts will allow them to deliver the best possible patient care following reconfiguration. Some of the team involved in the week-long 3P event A team of over 50 clinicians, patient representatives and other healthcare professionals have been [...]
14 August 2018 Maternity services for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Mid and North Wales have completed a period of engagement with the public following the suspension of inpatient services at the three rural Midwife Led Units (MLUs) run by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). Services at the units in Oswestry, Bridgnorth and Ludlow were suspended on safety [...]
19 July 2018 A Shropshire hospital worker is to ride the equivalent of the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales to raise money to improve end of life care. Craig Edwards, left, and Richard Humphries prepare for their epic ride Craig Edwards will tackle his “Three Peaks Challenge” by ascending the infamous Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen 10 [...]
19 July 2018 Mums and their families will get to have their say on what the design of the new-look Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will look like as part of the centre’s £400,000 upgrade. Sarah Jamieson looks at the plans for the MLU with Mark Hassall, site manager with Bow Construction The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS [...]
3 July 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is today (Tuesday) starting a six-week period of engagement about a proposal to extend the temporary suspension of inpatient services – including births and postnatal care - in its rural Midwife Led Units (MLUs) at Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Oswestry. The proposal is to extend the current temporary suspension of [...]
19 June 2018 Inpatient services - including births - at Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Ludlow Midwife Led Units (MLUs) are to remain temporarily suspended in order to safely staff the units where most of our mothers are giving birth, as a period of focused engagement with service users begins. The current suspension of births at the three MLUs will continue until [...]
4 May 2018 The temporary suspension of services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) is to be extended for a further two weeks. Inpatient services (births and postnatal care) at Oswestry will be suspended until 8am on Sunday 20 May to ensure the continued safe care for mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Inpatient services at Ludlow MLU are also suspended [...]
29 March 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife-Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 7.30pm today (Thursday 29 March) until 7.30am on Saturday. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry MLU who go into labour during the temporary suspension of services will be offered a birth at another MLU or the Consultant-led unit at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. [...]
