29 April 2022 An article from the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Integrated Care System: Just in case you need medical help this May Bank Holiday weekend, it’s important to know which service is best suited to your needs. Your GP practice may be closed on Monday 2 May, but a range of NHS services are still available depending on your [...]
Nicky Brierley, Cardiology Nurse, has won the charity place to run in the London Marathon for SaTH Charity. We caught up with Nicky to find out a little bit more about her and why she is taking on this huge challenge. Nicky said: “I’m 53, married with two grown-up sons and I have worked in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) [...]
29 April 2022 In-patient visiting is to be re-introduced at the Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospitals from Tuesday 3 May, after it was previously suspended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors will be asked to continue to help restrict the spread of the virus by following some key requirements, including wearing face masks and observing social distancing when [...]
28 April 2022 A joint statement from the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group: “Due to staffing issues, the very difficult decision has been taken to temporarily close the Paediatric Ophthalmology service at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) to new patients until further notice. “The paediatric ophthalmology service cares [...]
A press release from NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG): 27 April 2022 The NHS in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is calling on local communities to share their views on a brand-new, state-of-the-art health and wellbeing hub in Shrewsbury. The health and wellbeing hub would bring a new approach to providing local health and wellbeing services that [...]
We strive to support our patients and their loved ones in the best ways that we can at our Trust and we have been working hard on reviewing our guidance on visiting after a recent change by the NHS. With any changes we make we have to balance the importance of allowing visiting for our patients against a number of [...]
As some of you may have seen already, our Chief Executive, Louise Barnett, last week published an Open Letter to our communities in response to the recently published final report of Donna Ockenden’s Independent Review of Maternity Services at our hospitals. The letter, which can be seen in full at our website (www.sath.nhs.uk), sets out again how truly sorry we [...]
20 April 2022 The health and care system in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is working together to transform local eye-care and wants to hear about people’s experiences of using the current services. The aim is to provide effective eye-care services that are more joined-up so that adults and children get the best care possible when and where they need it. [...]
20 April 2022 A team from the Ophthalmology department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is taking on Scafell Pike – England’s highest mountain – as part of the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money. Doctors, nurses, nurse injectors, optometrists, secretaries and administrative staff from SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal [...]
14 April 2022 Below is an open letter from Chief Executive, Louise Barnett. This letter can also be read here. An open letter to everyone served by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust On Wednesday 30 March 2022, Mrs Donna Ockenden published her final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services at our hospitals. The report is devastating [...]
