The following is a message from David, Evans, Senior Responsible Office, NHS Future Fit. Details about SaTH's Sustainable Services Programme (which feeds into NHS Future Fit can be found here. People will have woken up this morning to see headlines telling them that A&E is to close at Telford and a new Emergency Department will be built at Shrewsbury. The most [...]
Sepsis patients at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are receiving life-saving medication faster than ever before. Using Virginia Mason Institute methodology, staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) have proved it is possible to give patient all elements of the ‘Sepsis 6’ bundle in less than an hour. Evidence shows that completion of the ‘Sepsis 6’ bundle within [...]
Senior hospital staff today spoke of their hopes for the future as health care leaders continue work to address challenges in critical and emergency care to improve patient safety. The Sustainable Services Programme drawn up by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) describes Trust plans to address the significant challenges to the safety and sustainability of patient services, specifically [...]
Patients being treated for Sepsis have seen huge improvements in their care at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals – thanks to the introduction of techniques used by ‘the USA’s Hospital of the Decade’. Staff Nurse Viola Jones The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has been working to improve care for patients who suffer Sepsis and has been [...]
4 July 2016 A leaflet has been created to ensure patients on Ward 9 at The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford are informed of their discharge date within 15 minutes of arrival. The patient information leaflet was created during The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) second Rapid Process Improvement Week (RPIW) for the Respiratory Value Stream after [...]
The Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has welcomed a decision by commissioners to support Trust’s plans to address challenges in emergency and critical care. The Board of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group today voted to support the Strategic Outline Case(SOC) of the Sustainable Services Programme, presented by SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess [...]
The majority of patients who currently attend Shropshire’s two A&Es will still go to the same hospital as they do now if one of the emergency departments closes. Patients currently treated for a variety conditions at the A&E Departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford would not need to travel to a new, single [...]
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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH)Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme describes potential solutions to the challenges of Accident & Emergency and Critical Care provision in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. Here, SaTH Chief Executive Simon Wright describes the document and why change is needed: We’re committed to providing the best service possible [...]
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme describes potential solutions to the challenges of Accident & Emergency and Critical Care provision in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. The SOC proposes one single fully staffed and equipped Emergency Centre supported by a network of Urgent Care Centres, one Diagnostic [...]
