22 May 2024 Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust are pleased to announce plans to recruit a Chair in Common across the two organisations further progressing their shared ambition to improve services for the communities across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, the Black Country and borders and mid-Wales. This is an exciting step [...]
21 May 2024 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) today shared a proposed construction management plan for the new hospital building at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) as part of the Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP). The plan sets out proposals to manage traffic and public access on the site during the construction of the new building, which [...]
20 May 2024 Elective orthopaedic surgery at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) is paused due to estates issues on the recovery ward. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is committed to resuming the service and we are working to restart elective orthopaedic surgery in the summer. We are sorry that patients are facing long waits for planned orthopaedic [...]
We welcomed the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) report this week which shows that our Trust has improved its overall rating from ‘inadequate’ to ‘requires improvement’. This is positive news and shows the good progress taking place at the Trust, but we recognise that we have more to do. We are now rated as ‘good’ for ‘caring’. The [...]
15 May 2024 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reported progress across a number of key areas and services at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), with the Trust improving its overall rating from ‘inadequate’ to ‘requires improvement’. Following an inspection in October 2023, and a well-led Inspection in November 2023, the Trust is now rated as [...]
10 May 2024 Some phlebotomy (blood test) services at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford are being relocated to support and improve waiting times for patients who need urgent care. The services, which are currently housed in the Mallings Health building, will be moved to the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford from Monday 13 May. The relocation will [...]
10 May 2024 With cases of whooping cough increasing across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, pregnant women are being encouraged to come forward for a vaccination as babies who are too young to start their vaccinations are at greatest risk. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial infection of the lungs and breathing tubes. It spreads very easily [...]
Each year thousands of appointments are missed by patients, which means that others are waiting longer to be seen and it also costs the NHS money. In April alone, 1,000 patients did not attend blood test appointments at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Princess Royal Hospital and the Community Diagnostic Centre in Telford, and Whitchurch Community Hospital. We understand that there [...]
3 May 2024 The Critical Care Garden at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital was reopened after extensive work to improve access for patients, thanks to the support of charity. The kind donations of William Dodd’s family to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Charity enabled works to the Critical Care Garden to be undertaken. The local butcher died in [...]
May bank holiday weekend is approaching and I would like to encourage you to ‘Think which service’ should you need any health care during this time. Our emergency departments (EDs) continue to be extremely busy but more so during bank holidays. EDs are for genuinely life-threatening emergencies – for example chest pains or severe bleeding or burns. If you have [...]
