18 February 2019 More than 88% of men eligible to be screened for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin were scanned – the highest uptake in the country. That’s all down to the efforts of the AAA screening team run by SaTH. They screened more than 2,500 men over the age of 65 for the [...]
16 January 2019 Female staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), who are struggling to find the time for their cervical screening test, can now have the procedure done at work. Dr Jill Blackmore and Sister Claire Carr It is the idea of Trust’s Colposcopy team as part of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, which runs [...]
7 September 2018 SaTH is expecting to complete the catch-up NHS breast screening sessions for women in Shropshire one month ahead of schedule. The catch-up sessions are for women, aged between 70 and 79, who were identified earlier this year as not receiving their invitation from the NHS breast screening programme, due to the national IT problem with the breast [...]
9 May 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is putting in place extra capacity for women in Shropshire, aged between 70 and 79, to have catch-up breast screening sessions after an NHS IT problem. The catch-up sessions are for women who have been identified as not receiving their invitation from the NHS breast screening programme, due to the [...]
The following information is from Public Health England Up to 309,000 women aged between 70 and 79 will be offered the opportunity for a catch-up NHS breast screening test this year. The decision follows analysis by Public Health England (PHE) dating back to 2009, which found that a number of invitations for a final test had not been sent out [...]
23 January 2018 The following information is from our partners at Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Nationally, two women every day of the year lose their lives to cervical cancer, with 75 per cent of cases preventable through screening. Monday, 22 January marks the start of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. NHS Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) [...]
Tuesday 23 May 2017 More than 2,500 men in the region have been screened for potential aneurysms over the past 12 months. From left: Steven Jones, Vascular Consultant; June Whitaker, a member of the League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital’s Executive Committee; Danielle Bajic, Vascular Specialist Nurse; Louise Jones, AAA Screening Programme Coordinator (Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin); [...]
