19 February 2020 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are taking an innovative approach to improving patient safety by closing their theatres every couple of months to implement Human Factors training. Human Factors training in a theatre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Healthcare professionals are always exploring new ways to make services safer. But it’s complicated, and there is so [...]
8 May 2019 Plans to make surgery as safe as it can be have been unveiled by SaTH. They include reducing interruptions in theatre, developing theatre team leaders and ensuring that key theatre procedures are given more priority. It follows an in-depth look by Trust into the way the theatres operate at PRH and RSH. The Trust wants to learn [...]
28 November 2017 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is working hard to prevent patients from falling. The issue of falls is one that affects the whole of the NHS. According to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), there will be between 5-18 falls per 1,000 bed-days in acute hospitals. Factors such as cognitive impairment (delirium or dementia), [...]
5 July 2017 Mr Andy Elves, Consultant Urologist; Sheena Khanduri, Clinical Lead for Cancer Services and Richard Pope, Clinical Director for Dynamic Health Systems, who helped develop the app, with the award. An interactive App developed to help cancer patients at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has won a prestigious national Patient Safety Award. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital [...]
