13 June 2023 A message from our colleagues at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin information and advice about Junior Doctors’ 72-hour industrial action: 14-17 June The next planned industrial action is from the junior doctors with strike action planned for 72 hours between 7am on Wednesday 14 June until 7am on Saturday 17 June. This is [...]
9 June 2023 A message from our colleagues at NHS Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin With an amber weather alert announced and temperatures set to become ‘very warm’ to ‘hot’ between Saturday and Monday across the Midlands, we’re urging everyone across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to beat the heat and stay safe this weekend. Hot weather can increase the risk of [...]
5 June 2023 Our dietitians play a valuable role not only offering advice to patients but working with colleagues to ensure the best outcome. Dietitians' Week runs from 5-9 June and to celebrate, we're sharing the amazing story of one of our student dietitians, Kate Southan. "Rewind five years ago and I was in a marketing job that I wasn’t enjoying. [...]
On Sunday 4 June the first annual SaTH Charity staff football tournament took place at Shrewsbury Sports Village, netting an incredible £1,000. Organised by porter, Mark Rawlings, almost 100 colleagues took part, with 10 teams playing in total. Julia Clarke, Director of Public Participation, said: “I really enjoyed the tournament – all the teams showed remarkable team spirit and enthusiasm, [...]
Tomorrow marks the start of Volunteers’ Week and I would like to thank volunteers for all they do across our Trust and other organisations. Volunteers play such a crucial role and the theme for this year’s Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) is ‘Celebrate and Inspire’, which they do on a daily basis. The contribution of volunteers is often unseen, visible only [...]
1 June 2023 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) will join thousands of charities and voluntary organisations recognising the contribution volunteers make across the UK during Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June). With this year’s theme of ‘Celebrate and Inspire’ SaTH hopes to encourage people to get involved in volunteering in whatever way works for them. The contribution of volunteers [...]
24 May 2023 The Chaplaincy Team at the county’s two acute hospitals are busier than ever, offering vital support to patients, visitors, volunteers and staff. The team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, has recently grown to nine to include chaplains from different faith backgrounds. [...]
The bank holiday weekend will soon be upon us and we are urging people to ‘Think which service?’ they need should they require medical help. Our Emergency Departments (EDs) are extremely busy but especially during bank holidays, so it is important to know which local health service to use and when. It will ensure that you will get the right [...]
We are always looking at new ways to work with our partners to improve care for our patients and a new pilot project to airlift patients to a specialist stroke centre for time-critical treatment is one such scheme. Since February, five patients have been airlifted from Princess Royal Hospital in Telford by Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to the hyper acute [...]
15 May 2023 A pilot project to airlift patients to a stroke centre for time-critical treatment has been launched at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford. Since February, five patients have been airlifted from PRH by Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to the hyper acute stroke centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital for a thrombectomy. An air ambulance near [...]
