Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
My name is Emily and I am a Maternity Support Worker (MSW) on the Postnatal ward. I have been an MSW for 12 months, and was previously a Women’s Service’s Assistant (WSA) for nine years, also based on the Postnatal Ward. I always knew I wanted to support women and their families in the journey into parenthood but didn’t realise [...]
Maxine Mawhinney, a former BBC journalist and news reporter, is the new Co-Chair of the Ockenden Report Assurance Committee, taking over from the outgoing Co-Chair, Jane Garvey. The Ockenden Report Assurance Committee (ORAC), a monthly live-streamed meeting, was set up in 2021 to obtain and provide assurance in relation to the delivery, evidence, sustainability and impact of the implementation [...]
A dedicated Facebook page has been launched by the Trust that provides maternity care for women and families in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. The new page, called The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Maternity Information Hub, will be used to share up-to-date health and pregnancy advice, changes to services, improvements and innovations, staff achievements and patient experiences with [...]
A key element of plans to upgrade acute hospital services across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales involves the transformation of our Telford site to specialise in the delivery of planned care. The dedicated planned care site will provide benefits for all residents, including: Operations and procedures will be able to take place all year round utilising dedicated theatres [...]
10 November 2022 Exciting plans to upgrade acute hospital services will see the population of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales benefit from better quality care and fewer delays for treatment, a leading clinician has said. Dr Ed Rysdale, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, said the planned improvements will bring together specialist teams [...]
Our Maternity Services team and the Maternity Voices Partnership Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin are inviting former and current service users to complete a survey to provide feedback on their experiences of care and healthy pregnancy services. The teams would like to hear from service users who have had diabetes in pregnancy, a BMI of over 30, or have smoked [...]
4 November 2022 There will be more volunteering opportunities for young people at the Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals thanks to a recent funding boost. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has been awarded a grant worth over £86,000 from the new Volunteering Futures Fund - part of NHS Charities Together, and the Department for Digital, [...]
3 November 2022 A new £24million planned care hub is being purpose-built which will improve services and reduce the time that patients from Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Mid Wales are waiting for their operations. The new hub will provide more theatres and recovery beds dedicated to day case surgery, substantially increasing the number of same day operations that can [...]
A message from Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System: Have you recently attended an outpatient service (a short appointment not requiring an overnight stay) in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin? If you have, we would like to invite you to an online event to share your experience and views and help us improve services. The event will take place over MS [...]
On Monday 31 October, there will be building works taking place at the existing main entrance canopy, Princess Royal Hospital, Telford. The works are due to take 2-3 weeks and during this time temporary access arrangements will be in place. Temporary access to visitors, 24 hours per day, will be via the conservatory to the left of the main entrance. [...]
