Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
11 April 2024 An event to discuss diabetes and feet is to be held by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust with the support of Shrewsbury’s Town Mayor. It will be held on Tuesday 16 April 2024 between 5pm and 8pm at the Shrewsbury Town Football Ground, in Oteley Rd, Shrewsbury. The Diabetes Foot Care team has put together an [...]
3 April 2024 Thousands more operations will take place each year with the opening of a new Planned Care Hub at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford this summer. The new facility, which will consist of four modern operating theatres and additional recovery beds, will enable more than 3,500 additional day case procedures to be undertaken per year. The Shrewsbury [...]
27 March 2024 A new teledermatology service has been launched at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Telford, helping patients to have a faster diagnosis and treatment for skin cancer. The service, run by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, involves a qualified professional clinical photographer taking a series of digital photographs of a patient’s skin lesion. The [...]
26 March 2024The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has closed its Chronic Pain Service to new patient referrals.The closure is due to the Trust’s specialist clinician leaving. It means the Trust is no longer able to accept any new referrals from the specialist community pain management service or other routes. Instead, patients requiring hospital care will be referred [...]
21 March 2024 A mother and her daughter are celebrating after graduating and starting their nursing careers at the same time. Kelly Beaman, a healthcare assistant at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), thought she had missed her opportunity to train as a nurse. Kelly Beaman and Grace Asterley But when Kelly attended a university open day with her daughter Grace [...]
19 March 2024 An artist’s impression of how the new development at RSH would look Plans for a modular ward extension at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) will support the recovery of patients who no longer need acute hospital care. There will be two wards within the planned development for patients who need further care to recover from illness [...]
18 March 2024 A healthcare assistant (HCA) at the Trust, which runs the county’s two acute hospitals, and her sister are gearing up to tackle a 100km ultra challenge for Macmillan Cancer Support. Steph Eastment, an HCA at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, and her sister Lena Eastment are raising vital funds for the charity, which provides invaluable emotional, practical, physical [...]
11 March 2024 This week, the Trust that runs Shropshire’s acute hospitals, is celebrating healthcare scientists who work to provide crucial care and support to patients and other services within the NHS. National Healthcare Science Week runs from Monday 11 to Sunday 15 March and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is recognising the outstanding work of [...]
6 March 2024 Sixteen aspiring healthcare individuals have received recognition for completing the Volunteer to Career (VtC) Programme in midwifery at the Trust, which runs the county’s two acute hospitals. Volunteers on the most recent midwifery programme have collectively accumulated over 1,000 hours of volunteering on the antenatal and postnatal wards within The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust [...]
5 March 2024 A new critical care unit, as part of the Hospitals Transformation Programme (HTP), is set to improve support for the most vulnerable patients in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and mid Wales. The HTP plans will ensure care will be improved for everyone with the Princess Royal Hospital site specialising in planned care, and the Royal Shrewsbury [...]
