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 [...]
A range of health services will be available to patients in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin during the upcoming Easter Bank Holiday to ensure they get the most appropriate care for their needs. With unprecedented pressures across local NHS and social care services, the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin health and care system continues to ask the public to think NHS 111 first or [...]
This week, a special mention should be given to members of our Medical Retina team who will be aiming high when they take on Scafell Pike – England’s highest mountain – as part of a Three Peaks Challenge. A team of doctors, nurses, nurse injectors, optometrists, secretaries and administrative staff will be climbing Scafell Pike, which is a massive 978 [...]
Last week saw the publication of the final ‘Ockenden Report’, which looked into failings with our maternity services, and through this column we would like to again offer our wholehearted apologies for the pain and the distress that has been caused. As a Trust, we take full responsibility for our failings and acknowledge the determination of the women and families [...]
Patients and carers are crucial to help us shape the care we provide to our communities in the future and we are looking for those who have used our services to become part of speciality groups at our Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for them to give their valuable insight and perspective as part of the Speciality Patient Experience [...]
30 March 2022 Responding to the publication of the final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services – the ‘Ockenden Report’ – Louise Barnett, Chief Executive at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said: “Today’s report is deeply distressing, and, on behalf of all at The Trust I offer our wholehearted apologies for the pain and distress that [...]
