Artist impressions show how a new single Emergency Centre for Shropshire could look if one is created in the county. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs RSH and PRH, has produced a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme, which describes potential solutions to the challenges of accident and emergency and critical care provision [...]
Two senior A&E Consultants at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have written an open letter in which they outline why changes are needed to emergency care in the county. The letter comes from Mr Subramanian Kumaran, Consultant and Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), and Dr Adrian Marsh, Consultant [...]
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has improved the way patients presenting with Sepsis are screened, as another milestone in their exciting five-year partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute (VMI) in Seattle is reached. There were a number of big successes and positive outcomes as a team from SaTH completed a Rapid Process Improvement Week (RPIW) for the [...]
View the following article as a downloadable PDF Senior Consultants offer views on Strategic Outline Case
Last night, the Board of Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) voted to support the Strategic Outline Case (SOC) of the Sustainable Services Programme, presented by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford. However, the Board of Shropshire CCG were split and unable to support [...]
Staff Nurse Viola Jones Shropshire’s two acute hospitals are taking the lead in the fight against a condition which claims more lives every year than breast cancer, bowel cancer and colon cancer combined.There are around 150,000 cases of Sepsis in the UK every year with, sadly, 44,000 people dying. Sepsis arises when the body’s response to an infection [...]
Simon Wright Chief Executive I was privileged to witness, and to be part of, the very first Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW) report out held within our Trust. A RPIW is a five-day workshop which focuses on a particular process in which our staff who do the work are empowered to eliminate waste, improve the patient experience, improve [...]
I am the very proud sponsor of the first Rapid Process Improvement Week (RPIW), which took place as part of our exciting partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle. The week used the methodology we have learnt from Virginia Mason to look at ways to improve Respiratory Discharge which is our first Value Stream as part of the partnership. [...]
