Thursday 2 April 2026 To keep our patients, visitors and staff safe, please do not visit our hospitals if you have symptoms of norovirus (also called the vomiting bug). Symptoms include: Diarrhoea Vomiting Flu-like symptoms Please do not visit our hospitals for at least 48 hours after symptoms stop to prevent spreading it to others. If you are feeling [...]
Wednesday 5 November 2025 A significant investment in the Princess Royal and Royal Shrewsbury hospitals will improve access to urgent and emergency care and ensure patients are getting the right care in the right place. SaTH is creating additional inpatient beds and assessment spaces at the hospitals. These will be ready this winter and include: Expanding acute assessment and same [...]
15 October 2025 Patients and staff are benefitting from a £1.2million investment in additional operating theatre equipment at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). The Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, received the funding from NHS England and it is being used to purchase additional equipment for theatres [...]
7 October 2025 We will be re-introducing face mask wearing in some areas of our hospitals from Wednesday 8 October. This follows guidance from NHS England to reduce the spread of respiratory infections this winter and protect patients, visitors and staff. It also follows a recent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in our hospitals. Please can we [...]
2 October 2025 Patients are receiving high quality, safe care that meets national best practice standards when using SaTH's endoscopy services. The services at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital have been awarded accreditation from the Joint Advisory Group (JAG) on adult gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. The JAG accreditation programme works with endoscopy services nationally to improve the [...]
02 July 2025 New automated cabinets for supplying medicines are now in place in the emergency departments at the county’s two acute hospitals providing safer, modern care for patients. The new technology will increase efficiency and save time for staff, releasing more time for patient care – and support the timely discharge of patients from hospital. The rollout of the [...]
Tuesday 24 June 2025: 5.30pm Further update from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Ned Hobbs, Chief Operating Officer for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: “We can confirm that the Trust is returning to business as usual following the flooding caused by a burst water pipe at Princess Royal Hospital on Monday evening. “There are [...]
11 June 2025 Welcome to Impact magazine – our quarterly update on the transformation work that is happening across the Trust. Inside this Q1 edition: How we are trialling new ways of working to reduce waits for urgent and emergency care The steps we are taking to improve access to diagnostic tests and scans, and elective care The work [...]
7 January 2025 Patients at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) are recovering quicker and benefitting from improved care after having robotic assisted surgery. The Trust, which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals, began using a robotic surgery system called da Vinci XI in June 2023 to assist with the treatment of colorectal, urological and gynaecological diseases. Robotic [...]
13 December 2024 The Trust, which runs the county’s two acute hospitals, is reaping the rewards of its very own Theatres Academy, one year on from launching. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has been training up staff within its Theatres department through a range of apprenticeships and leadership programmes. The academy at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and [...]
