I would like to start off my column this week with an apology to all our patients, their loved ones and our community after the Channel 4 Dispatches programme highlighted the challenging conditions in our urgent and emergency services at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. As a nurse and having previously worked in an Emergency Department, it was upsetting to see the [...]
There are lots of incredible colleagues I work with on a daily basis but this week I would like to shine the spotlight on those who have joined the Trust and then followed a career pathway to become a registered nurse. Those colleagues who started as Healthcare Assistants (HCA) and have successfully gone on to be qualified nurses with training [...]
It is Volunteers’ Week which gives us the opportunity at our Trust to celebrate the incredible impact our volunteers have. We have around 300 volunteers in 30 different roles who give their time to support our patients, colleagues and visitors and they all play such a crucial role in our organisation. There is also the many charities and organisations whose [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
