12 June 2018 The NHS is turning 70 next month and what better way to celebrate one of the nation’s most loved institutions than with a slice of cake and a cup of tea? But this was more than just a regular brew as on Thursday and Friday 7 and 8 June, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust [...]
23 May 2018 The following information is from our partners at Teenage Cancer Trust Teenage Cancer Trust, the charity dedicated to ensuring no young person faces cancer alone, in partnership with The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), has funded a new Teenage and Young Adult clinical specialist nurse to support young people with cancer aged 13 to 24, [...]
22 May 2018 A new allergen-free menu has been introduced at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. It will ensure that patients at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), who have food allergies and intolerances, know which foods they can eat safely. All of the dishes on the new allergen aware menu are ‘free from’ the 14 [...]
18 May 2018 Inpatient services, including births, at Bridgnorth Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be temporarily suspended for four weeks from Sunday 20 May. Births at Oswestry and Ludlow MLUs, which are currently suspended, will continue to be temporarily suspended for a further four weeks. This is to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Oswestry, [...]
15 May 2018 Nurse Melissa Compton is taking the ultimate plunge – and will swim across the Channel in a 22-mile fundraising relay with three friends. Melissa Compton, who works in ITU They will be aiming to swim in relay between Dover and Calais – with each member swimming for an hour in succession until they [...]
10 May 2018 A team of nurses will be donning their walking boots – and their pyjamas - to climb the Wrekin this June. Highlighting the #EndPJParalysis campaign The nurses have pledged to complete the challenge on June 23, to raise awareness of NHS England’s #EndPJparalysis campaign to encourage patients to get out of their pyjamas – and [...]
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 [...]
01 May 2018 SaTH has appointed a new substantive A&E consultant for the first time in four years. It is the fifth consultant recruitment in 10 days, with two also being appointed in Ear, Nose and Throat and a further two in Bariatric. Simon Wright, Chief Executive of SaTH, says the appointments are a clear indication that the certainty over [...]
26 April 2018 Wards at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) are to move to allow essential safety and maintenance work to take place at the hospital. To ensure the Ward Block at RSH meets the latest building regulations, remedial work needs to take place and, to enable that to happen, some patients will need to be moved. Ward 21, our [...]
18 April 2018 A phlebotomy service provided at Princess House in Shrewsbury town centre is to move to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. From 1 May, GP patients who have previously used Princess House in The Square will be asked to attend Elizabeth House based at the RSH, which already provides walk-in phlebotomy clinics. The service at Princess House will close [...]
