3 October 2023 A new Community Diagnostic Centre has opened its doors improving access to non-urgent scans and tests for patients across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. The new facility, which is located at Hollinswood House in Stafford Park 1, Telford, opened its first services yesterday, and welcomed its first patients. It means that patients who need non-urgent diagnostic tests [...]
16 February 2021 A gallery owner has teamed up with an artist to donate an incredible piece of art to Shropshire’s acute hospitals as a thank you for the treatment given to a family member. Jonathan Soden presenting the artwork to Claire Baker The artwork, donated by Jonathan Soden and artist Nick Veasey, to The Shrewsbury and Telford [...]
3 December 2019 A new state-of-the-art CT scanner is up and running at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford – with the first patients to use it being scanned this week. The scanner was delivered to the X-ray Department last month and is now fully operational. The first patient was scanned today. Glen Whitehouse, Jan McCloud and Sally [...]
24 September 2019 The League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) has helped to fund new Radiology equipment which will help improve patient care. Peter Crinson, Gill Mattey and Debbie Jones from the LoF with Graham Kelly The LoF has donated £48,695 towards four new reporting monitors which are used to provide clinical reports on patients’ [...]
21 August 2019 Patients who may be at risk of having a stroke are being offered the opportunity to have a same day MRI scan. The trial service is to be offered to patients who have shown symptoms of a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) and who are attending the rapid access TIA clinic at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. [...]
01 January 2019 A new £1 million MRI scanner at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) is helping to reduce waiting and travel time for cardiac patients who previously had to be seen out of Shropshire for their scans. The state-of-the-art scanner was purchased by the League of Friends of the RSH last year after they raised an incredible £1 million [...]
11 July 2017 A 230ft high crane has now removed an MRI scanner from Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) – to pave the way for a state-of-the-art replacement to be installed later in the summer. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) [...]
30 June 2017 A 230ft high crane will remove an MRI scanner from Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in July 2017– to pave the way for a state-of-the-art replacement to be installed later in the summer. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is replacing its two existing MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners, one of which is at PRH [...]
