9 September 2019 Four therapy colleagues from The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital are hoping to become World Coracle Champions this week, as they take to the water in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Competing with the team name ‘Thera-peas’, Shona Underwood, a Macmillan Physiotherapist; Laura Lewis, an Occupational Therapist; Jemma Pearson, a Frailty Specialist Physiotherapist and Anita Evans, a Neurology Specialist [...]
2 September 2019 A man who suffered a heart attack earlier this year is offering staff at Shropshire’s acute hospitals the chance to enjoy a day of clay pigeon shooting as a thank you for the “great care” he received. Jonathan Williams, Director of Mid Wales Shooting Centre, suffered a heart attack while running along the beach between Aberdyfi and [...]
27 August 2019 Nursing staff pulled out all the stops to help a patient get married after her partner proposed while she was being cared for at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. In just over 48 hours, staff from across the hospital helped to organise a registrar to carry out the ceremony, decorate a side room and provide cake and prosecco [...]
23 August 2019 Families who attend a church in Telford have kindly collected and donated a range of gifts to be distributed to mums and their newborn babies. The gift-wrapped donations, which included baby baths, baby clothes, nappies and toiletries, were delivered to midwives at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford this week to be given to new mums [...]
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. [...]
19 August 2019 She has been volunteering for the League of Friends of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) for 40 years – making her one of their longest serving volunteers. And on Friday (Aug 16), Joy Marston was helped by one of the Friends’ youngest volunteers, 17-year-old Emma Highfield, to draw four winning tickets for the Friends’ Annual Summer Draw [...]
16 August 2019 A group of staff at the Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has overhauled an NHS Screening Timeline for their patients, and now the resource has been rolled out nationally by Public Health England. Managers for six screening programmes at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the [...]
14 August 2019 Five stunning sky murals are to feature on two wards at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford to improve care for patients. The LED lit ceiling tiles will feature natural sky scenes and will be fitted in five side rooms on Ward 15 (Acute Stroke Unit) and Ward 16 (Rehabilitation), with one already completed. The aim [...]
13 August 2019 A £150,000 investment is being made in new IT infrastructure which will help improve care for radiotherapy patients at SaTH. The investment will mean that clinicians will be able to remotely access patient scans and treatment plans from any location within the Trust. New computers, up-to-date software and server hardware are currently being installed in the Radiotherapy [...]
12 August 2019 Expectant mums opting for a birth at the Wrekin Midwife Led Unit will be cared for by small teams of named midwives to improve their maternity journey. Midwives at the unit, which is based at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, have introduced Continuity of Carer for their mums-to-be. It means that they will have the same people [...]
