21 February 2018 The Postnatal Ward, within Women & Children’s services, has become the first ward in the Trust to be crowned with a ‘diamond’. Outstanding care, safety and kindness, leadership, cleanliness, exceeding targets and many other achievements, mean that the staff on the ward are the first to win the coveted Exemplar Ward Diamond status – the highest possible. [...]
20 February 2018 For more than a quarter of a century, it has been helping thousands of couples realise their dreams of becoming parents. Helping couples since 1991 Such is the success of the Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre - now one of the top IVF clinics in the UK - it [...]
19 February 2018 On 24 February Annie and Mark Hambley will celebrate the first birthday of their beautiful son Bodhi. Mark and Annie Hambley with son Bodhi (centre) with Clare Soltysiak, Fertility Development Co-ordinator; Victoria Gittins, Embryologist and Rosalind Grainger, Fertility Nurse. But for them, it will be no ordinary first birthday party. It will be a day when they [...]
19 February 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is looking for people for whom 1948 was a particularly special year. Student nurses in Shropshire, who trained between the years of 1948 (the year the NHS was created) and 1951. As part of its plans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, SaTH wants to [...]
15 February 2018 Eight-month-old twin sisters Tali and Nina Owen-Tranter were born eight weeks prematurely weighing around 3lbs each. Tali and Nina with Julie Houlston, Neonatal Sister It meant that they needed specialist care in the neonatal unit at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, where they spent a month before finally being allowed to go home after [...]
15 February 2018 A record number of frontline healthcare workers at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have had their flu jab this winter. More than 75% of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital, have had the jab since the ‘Who Ya [...]
9 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be suspended until 25 February 2018 to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Our mums are choosing to have their babies in our Consultant-led unit over our rural MLUs, such as Oswestry. To protect their safety during the birth, we are having to look [...]
9 February 2018 The following information is from our partners at Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) From Tuesday 3 July, 2018 people across Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire who need urgent GP out-of-hours medical help or advice will need to call 111. This is because the current Shropdoc telephone number will no longer be in use [...]
9 February 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is switching to biodegradable drinking straws as it continues its efforts to reduce its environmental footprint. Catering Operations Manager Ian Stuart with the new biodegradable straws The straws will be available, when required, at the Caffe Bistro outlets and the canteens at both the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) [...]
8 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Thursday 8 February) until 8am tomorrow (Friday 9 February). The decision has been made because of on-going short-term staff sickness which continues to affect the midwifery service. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry who go into labour during the temporary suspension of [...]
