26 March 2024The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has closed its Chronic Pain Service to new patient referrals.The closure is due to the Trust’s specialist clinician leaving. It means the Trust is no longer able to accept any new referrals from the specialist community pain management service or other routes. Instead, patients requiring hospital care will be referred [...]
9 February 2024 A new survey by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that women are listened to, treated with respect and dignity, and involved in decisions about their care at the Trust that provides maternity services for women in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. The 2023 CQC Maternity Survey involved 121 NHS Trusts in England and [...]
6 February 2024 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has recruited 10 internationally-trained midwives to its maternity services, with a commitment to recruit a further two midwives from overseas each year to be more representative of its local communities. Each midwife has been through an extensive induction and training period to equip them for practice in the UK. [...]
Following the success of its previous open day, Maternity Services at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust will once again open their doors to the public on Saturday 24 February 2024. Taking place from 10am-3pm at the Shropshire Women and Children’s Centre, part of the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, the open day will offer hourly guided tours [...]
15 December 2023 People living in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin are being urged to play their part in supporting health and care services this winter. The plea comes as health and social care services come under increasing pressure – with the situation expected to become ever more challenging over the festive period. In an open letter, bosses at NHS Shropshire, [...]
8 November 2023 A patient cared for at the Trust which runs the county’s two acute hospitals has cycled 340 miles from Pisa to Rome to raise money for Myeloma UK. Jo Coombes, 55, from Hinstock in Shropshire, was diagnosed with myeloma three years ago at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), after experiencing a sharp pain whilst [...]
31 October 2023 Patients across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin are already seeing the benefits of a new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) which opened its doors earlier this month. A total of 2,230 blood tests and 1,045 scans were carried out at the CDC in the first four weeks. The new facility, located at Hollinswood House in Telford, means that [...]
23 October 2023 Julie Thomas and Deb Garbett, Breast Care Nurses A grateful patient has shown her appreciation to the Breast Imaging team at the county’s two acute hospitals by creating beautiful handmade capes. Sue Howarth, a patient who had undergone breast screening, visited the team at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to personally thank them and present them [...]
19 October 2023 A message from SaTH We are trialling a new tool on our website which shows the average total wait time in our A&Es from time of arrival to time of departure or admittance. This tool is a work in progress and is in the soft launch phase. We have temporarily taken it down today for further refinement [...]
13 October 2023 Saturday 14 October is National Allied Health Professions (AHPs) Day. It’s a chance for us to take a moment to celebrate our wonderful AHP colleagues and thank them for everything they do. As the third largest healthcare group at the Trust, our AHP colleagues are involved in so many vital aspects of care. There are many AHP [...]
