21 December 2018 Footballing stars from Shrewsbury Town and Telford United brought seasonal cheer to patients and staff at The Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal hospitals this week. Staff at RSH are joined by players from STFC Players from Shrewsbury Town – including Mat Sadler and Steve Arnold - visited patients and staff at the Lingen Davies Centre [...]
18 December 2018 Staff and patients on the Children’s Ward at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford didn’t expect to see Tigers at this time of year - especially Tigers handing out gifts. The Telford Tigers delivered 200 teddy bears to the Children's Ward. They are pictured with Jodie Frost (Play Practitioner). But they were actually members [...]
17 December 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has scooped an international environmental award for recycling surplus hospital equipment and furniture, making savings of £80,000. The Trust has won a Green Apple Award – Gold Level - as part of the recognised International Green Apple Environment Awards for Environmental Best Practice for its work using Warp-it, a [...]
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 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 [...]
25 October 2018 At today’s meeting of the Board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), members confirmed they are working towards an implementation date of 5 December for the potential overnight closure of the A&E at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. Members of the Board also confirmed they are looking into the possibility of reducing [...]
24 October 2018 Overnight emergency services at The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford could be temporarily suspended on 5 December if efforts to recruit more staff are unsuccessful and assurances are made that every patient pathway is safe. The Board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs PRH and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), will [...]
10 October 2018 Efforts to recruit additional staff to keep the A&E department at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford open overnight are continuing. The department currently remains open 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. However, the A&E could close between 8pm and 8am because of staffing issues which have been having an increasing impact on the safe care of patients over a [...]
3 October 2018 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals will have to suspend overnight A&E services at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford unless they can increase the number of emergency doctors and nurses. The Royal College of Medicine (RCEM) recommends that The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s two A&E Departments has 32 middle grade doctors – it has [...]
3 October 2018 A nurse from the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has won a national award from charity the Cavell Trust. Alexis Taylor presents the Cavell Star Award to Jean Medina Jean Medina, an Ophthalmic Nurse managing the urgent eye clinic and medical retina clinic at the hospital, was nominated by colleagues for going above and beyond for her [...]
