6 November 2018 The Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre will celebrate its move to a new state-of-the-art facility with an official opening on Saturday 10 November – when staff will be joined by families who have been helped by the service. The centre, which is one of the top IVF clinics in the country, moved to the Severn Fields Health [...]
2 November 2018 Almost every mother at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has had skin-to-skin bonding with their newborn babies, the latest figures show. Immediate skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby has "lasting benefits" for both, according to experts, including protecting babies from infection and encouraging them to breastfeed. The latest year-to-date figures show that 2,327 of [...]
31 October 2018 A team that performs thousands of heart scans at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals every year has enhanced its reputation for high quality and innovation. From left, Emily Challinor (Clinical Physiologist) and Sian Botley (Associate Practitioner) with the certificate from the British Society of Echocardiography. Cardiac ultrasound scanning – echocardiography or simply echo – is the [...]
30 October 2018 Since the launch of the People’s Academy, 68 people have graduated from the programme that encourages community engagement with Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. One of the most recent cohorts to graduate from SaTH's People's Academy The People’s Academy was launched by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) in January 2018 as a way [...]
26 October 2018 The tables have been turned on the Clinical Trials team at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) – who have volunteered to be the research ‘guinea pigs’. The research team, along with other staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), are taking part in a research trial with the University Centre Shrewsbury. The study is [...]
25 October 2018 At today’s meeting of the Board of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), members confirmed they are working towards an implementation date of 5 December for the potential overnight closure of the A&E at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. Members of the Board also confirmed they are looking into the possibility of reducing [...]
25 October 2018 The University of Wolverhampton is increasing links with SaTH as part of plans to develop the healthcare workforce in the county. Working in partnership, the University and Trust are developing more opportunities for nursing students to train and gain clinical placements within the Shropshire and Telford area. In addition, the University is working with SaTH to roll [...]
25 October 2018 More than 99 per cent of patients needing a diagnostic test at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals receive one within six weeks, it’s been confirmed. This key target has been met every single month since February 2017, with the latest figures revealing that 99.81% of patients received a diagnostic test within six week at The Shrewsbury and Telford [...]
24 October 2018 Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit has fully re-opened following a £500,000 refurbishment, which was designed with the help of mothers, their families and staff. Services at the MLU, which is based in the Copthorne Building at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, had to be relocated to another part of the building back in February after heavy winter snowfall caused [...]
24 October 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is among the best in the country for making sure patients wait no longer than 18 weeks between seeing their GP and having treatment at hospital. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has hit the hit national 92% referral to treatment (RTT) for 12 of the past [...]
