Last week saw the launch of the Birth Preferences Card across our Maternity Service. The card, co-produced by our Maternity team and the Maternity Voices Partnership Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, aims to enable service users to discuss their birth preferences with their care team and support partners in full. This will also assist clinicians to have a clear visual [...]
24 February 2022 Please see our full statement following last night’s BBC Panorama programme: “As a Trust we take full responsibility for the failings in the standards of care within our Maternity services. These occurred in the care we provided for women and families, the way in which we dealt with the incidents subsequently, and in the manner in which [...]
13 January 2022 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Neonatal Unit has achieved the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Stage One accreditation. The Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) is a global programme first launched in 1994, and extended to neonatal units in 2012, by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation to support breastfeeding and parent-infant relationships by improving standards of care. [...]
29 November 2021 A world-leading clinical COVID-19 vaccination trial for pregnant women has started at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) with the first two volunteers recruited. The Preg-CoV study being carried out at SaTH will look at the best COVID-19 vaccine dose interval for pregnant women with the results helping researchers understand how the vaccine works to [...]
19 April 2021 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is pleased to welcome one support partner for all women attending antenatal appointments and ultrasound scans at hospital sites from today (Monday 19 April) onwards. With the support of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin councils, maternity services users and their chosen support partner can access a lateral flow [...]
10 October 2019 The Delivery Suite at the Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has been awarded Diamond status as part of the organisation’s Exemplar improvement programme. The Delivery Suite becomes the fourth department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), to [...]
12 August 2019 Expectant mums opting for a birth at the Wrekin Midwife Led Unit will be cared for by small teams of named midwives to improve their maternity journey. Midwives at the unit, which is based at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, have introduced Continuity of Carer for their mums-to-be. It means that they will have the same people [...]
9 July 2019 A new Maternity Movement Bracelet has been launched to help pregnant women under the care of Shropshire’s two acute hospitals to track the movements of their unborn baby. Funded and supported by The Local Maternity System (LMS) in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, the Maternity Movement Bracelet will be given to expectant mums at 24 weeks [...]
21 March 2019 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) and other healthcare professionals have teamed up with the national charity Best Beginnings to launch a mobile app that will support parents and parents-to-be during pregnancy, birth and the initial first six months of a baby’s life. The free app, called ‘Baby Buddy’, has been created with parents and [...]
23 July 2018 Click to enlarge Until midnight on 13 August 2018 we are seeking your views on the current operational pressures across our maternity service. We would like to hear from local people, and we are particularly seeking the views of women and families who have recently used, or are currently being supported by our maternity service [...]
