23 May 2024 A charity is to close after 32 years, raising nearly £60,000 for the Cardiology Department fund at the Trust which runs the county’s two acute hospitals. The Copthorne Cickers recently made its final donation of £6,000 to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Charity’s Cardiology Department fund and has now closed the charitable arm of [...]
22 May 2024 In December 2023, an Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) re-affirmed that the Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP) is the best way forward to improve acute hospital services for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and mid-Wales. This includes the plans for the 24/7 enhanced urgent care service at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH). The IRP report published in December 2023 [...]
We are coming up to a bank holiday weekend and I would like to encourage you to ‘Think which service?’ to ensure that you get the right help at the right time should you need any health care. Our Emergency Departments (EDs) are extremely busy but even more so during bank holidays, so it is important to know which local [...]
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 [...]
