Shrewsbury and Telford General News and posts
20 April 2022 A team from the Ophthalmology department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is taking on Scafell Pike – England’s highest mountain – as part of the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money. Doctors, nurses, nurse injectors, optometrists, secretaries and administrative staff from SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and the Princess Royal [...]
14 April 2022 Below is an open letter from Chief Executive, Louise Barnett. This letter can also be read here. An open letter to everyone served by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust On Wednesday 30 March 2022, Mrs Donna Ockenden published her final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services at our hospitals. The report is devastating [...]
A range of health services will be available to patients in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin during the upcoming Easter Bank Holiday to ensure they get the most appropriate care for their needs. With unprecedented pressures across local NHS and social care services, the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin health and care system continues to ask the public to think NHS 111 first or [...]
30 March 2022 Responding to the publication of the final report of the Independent Review of Maternity Services – the ‘Ockenden Report’ – Louise Barnett, Chief Executive at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust said: “Today’s report is deeply distressing, and, on behalf of all at The Trust I offer our wholehearted apologies for the pain and distress that [...]
Last week saw the launch of the Birth Preferences Card across our Maternity Service. The card, co-produced by our Maternity team and the Maternity Voices Partnership Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, aims to enable service users to discuss their birth preferences with their care team and support partners in full. This will also assist clinicians to have a clear visual [...]
Patients and carers are being invited to take part in Speciality Patient Experience Groups. Their views are crucial to the Trust and could help shape future services by sharing their valuable insight and perspective. The speciality groups include the areas of medicine, emergency, surgery, women’s health, maternity, and children and young people, support services and corporate services. These groups will [...]
Ben Phillips A doctor has praised leisure centre staff for using a defibrillator to save the life of a swimmer. Father-of-two Ben Phillips, pictured, suffered a cardiac arrest when he was swimming underwater at Oswestry Leisure Centre pool and blacked out. His girlfriend alerted leisure centre staff who pulled Ben from the pool. He was resuscitated by the [...]
18 March 2022 A message from our colleagues at the CCG A national service to improve access to more complex GP appointments, by referring patients with minor illness to pharmacists for treatment, has been launched by NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The NHS GP referral to Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) has been introduced to the [...]
16 March 2022 They usually work behind the scenes at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals but healthcare scientists are crucial to the NHS and often offer life-saving care. As part of National Healthcare Science Week (14 -20 March), The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford is [...]
16 March 2022 An appeal is being made to knitters to help create blankets for patients at high risk of falls, for while they are staying at Shropshire’s acute hospitals. The Falls Prevention Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is looking for people to knit or donate the blankets to use in a trial. It is [...]
