8 March 2019 Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he had seen a real determination to improve Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. Mr Hancock talks to Jill Whitaker, Matron for consultant unit maternity services Mr Hancock toured parts of the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford yesterday and also took the chance to speak to hospital leaders about plans to [...]
7 March 2019 The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust (SaTH) has launched a blog, providing a platform for staff to write on topics within their specialties. With a particular emphasis on current affairs, the blog (which can be found here) will keep patients, members of the public, colleagues and everyone else with an interest in the Trust informed on health [...]
7 March 2019 By Louise Ingrouille-Grove, Critical Care Outreach Sister Five years ago, the chances are you wouldn’t have heard of sepsis. But hard-hitting storylines in primetime shows like Coronation Street, Call the Midwife, The Archers and Holby City have changed all that. One aspect of my role as a Critical Outreach Sister is to review the deteriorating patient, and [...]
5 March 2019 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has joined a new campaign launched to raise awareness of the risks of cervical cancer and highlight the benefits of screening, reminding women that cervical screening can stop cancer before it starts. Cynthia Davies, 56, TelfordFor years I didn’t miss a smear test but, with six children and [...]
22 February 2019 Ellie Watts (Newport Girls High School), Huw Chadwick (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College), Charlotte Newby (Charlton School) and Ben Baker (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College) A group of young people have attended an academy at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals that provides an in-depth look at the work carried out by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. The [...]
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 [...]
11 February 2019 A team of white coats at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have streamlined their work to ensure patients are given the most effective antibiotics at the earliest opportunity. The behind-the-scenes work is proving particularly effective in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) fight against sepsis as it is now possible for patients to receive specially-targeted antibiotics [...]
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 [...]
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 Throughout the NHS Future Fit public consultation there were key themes that kept arising. Here, experts explain why the new healthcare model will provide better patient care. Emergency Care Mr Subramanian Kumaran, A&E Consultant and Clinical Director of Emergency Services at SaTH, said: “Many of the people who currently attend our A&Es don’t need ‘emergency’ care – [...]
