6 April 2021 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) and the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) will be working together to communicate openly and receive feedback from women and families as the Trust implements required actions from the first Ockenden Report. SaTH, which runs maternity services for women in Shropshire, Telford, Wrekin and mid Wales will receive expert [...]
30 March 2021 Colleagues working on a ward at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford can now take their breaks in a staff room with a difference. A ‘Royal Dome’ pod has been installed outside the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) where staff can now go to rest during their shifts. The dome is fully equipped with heating and lighting [...]
23 March 2021 A new committee has been formed by the Trust that runs Shropshire’s maternity services to drive forward actions arising from the first Ockenden Report, which was published in 2020. The Ockenden Report Assurance Committee (ORAC), set up by the Board of Directors at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital [...]
22 March 2021 Two landscaped gardens are to be created at Shropshire’s acute hospitals in honour of Captain Sir Tom Moore. A courtyard at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and an area outside the ward block at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) are to be transformed and named in memory of Captain Sir Tom. Both gardens will be areas [...]
19 March 2021 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has received new pulse oximetry machines to improve the detection and early care of babies with serious heart conditions. Donated by Tiny Tickers, a charity that aims to give a better start to tiny hearts, the seven pulse oximetry machines have allowed The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust [...]
26 January 2021 A team of volunteers is helping patients being cared for at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals receive essential supplies from home. Response volunteers at PRH No visitors (except in exceptional circumstances) are currently allowed to visit inpatients at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
21 January 2021 An appeal has been made for people keen on sewing to help make sleepwear for patients at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. The nightwear will be for those patients who do not have a spare change of clothes because COVID-19 restrictions or isolation has meant relatives are not able to get to the Princess Royal Hospital in [...]
16 December 2020 A newly-built expanded Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, which will help reduce hospital admissions and improve patient experience, will be operational later this month. The centre, next to the hospital’s A&E Department, will house a larger Acute Medical Same Day Emergency Care service running seven-days-a-week. Patients seen in the SDEC will [...]
9 December 2020 They are at the very heart of Shropshire’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day they carefully decipher hundreds of tests extracting and detecting the relevant information to determine who is COVID-19 positive and who is negative. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Microbiology team at SaTH has provided the results for COVID-19 swabs taken from [...]
18 November 2020 SaTH has welcomed the announcement that Government funding is being made available to move forward with plans to transform hospital services for the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales. Health Minister Edward Argar MP confirmed that £6m of funding has been approved in principle for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), to develop plans for the [...]
