4 July 2023 A small-scale training exercise will be taking place at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford today. An emergency scenario will be played out for staff with support from Shropshire Fire and Rescue, West Midlands Ambulance Service, West Mercia Police and a wide range of other multi agency partners. The exercise will take place around the A&E department [...]
7 May 2020 The Trust that runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is helping to protect frontline staff at other healthcare organisations across the region by providing training on how to correctly fit single-use respiratory protective equipment. Mask Fit test training at SaTH Five people from private sector healthcare operators attended a training session at the Princess Royal Hospital [...]
19 February 2020 Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are taking an innovative approach to improving patient safety by closing their theatres every couple of months to implement Human Factors training. Human Factors training in a theatre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Healthcare professionals are always exploring new ways to make services safer. But it’s complicated, and there is so [...]
12 June 2019 Nurses working in the Emergency Departments at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are honing their skills in real-life simulated environment. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has recruited a number of new nurses to its two A&E departments in recent months; all of whom are being prepared for life in a busy resuscitation area by undergoing [...]
6 June 2019 The University of Wolverhampton, which is working in partnership with SaTH, is investing in new facilities to train the next generation of nurses at its Telford Campus and meet local healthcare demand. A £180,000 new skills lab or ‘mock ward’ has been created at the Priorslee Campus after the University received approval to deliver nursing on-site from [...]
22 January 2019 Two new state-of-the-art ‘real life’ manikins – that speak, blink and even bleed – will help train healthcare professionals, and those of the future, at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals. They will be used in a new Simulation Suite which will officially be opened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) this week. The Suite is based within the [...]
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 [...]
