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Hospital Trust named finalist in national health tech awards

03 October 2025 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is celebrating being named as finalist in two categories at the HTN Health Tech Awards 2025. The awards recognise digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers making a difference across health care. SaTH has been shortlisted for its improvements in managing and using data. This has included working [...]

Hospital Trust named finalist in national health tech awardsCarmen Harper2025-10-03T14:58:37+01:00

Hospital Trust using more robotic surgery to help transform care for patients

3 October 2025 Patients are benefiting from quicker recoveries with more operations now being assisted by a state-of-the-art surgical robot at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). The Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, was already using the robotic system to assist with colorectal, gynaecology and urology surgery, but has [...]

Hospital Trust using more robotic surgery to help transform care for patientsEmily Lovell2025-10-07T16:12:29+01:00

Endoscopy services at Shropshire’s acute hospitals achieve JAG accreditation

2 October 2025 Patients are receiving high quality, safe care that meets national best practice standards when using SaTH's endoscopy services. The services at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital have been awarded accreditation from the Joint Advisory Group (JAG) on adult gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. The JAG accreditation programme works with endoscopy services nationally to improve the [...]

Endoscopy services at Shropshire’s acute hospitals achieve JAG accreditationClaire Dunn2025-10-02T12:20:52+01:00

Mobile breast screening unit moves to a new location in Newport, Shropshire

01 October 2025 The mobile breast screening unit, which had previously been located at Cottage Care Centre in Newport, is to move to a new site at Harper Adams University from November 2025 until February 2026. The mobile screening unit is part of the breast screening service provided by Shropshire Breast Screening at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust [...]

Mobile breast screening unit moves to a new location in Newport, ShropshireNatalie Smith2025-10-01T14:03:41+01:00

Boost to community-based care set to transform patient recovery closer to home

Issued by Shropsire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System 25 September Health and care leaders across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin have taken the next step in delivering their commitment to expanding community-based care, as part of a wider plan to improve patient recovery and ease pressure on local hospitals. Backed by a £3.6 million reinvestment, the initiative will see more [...]

Boost to community-based care set to transform patient recovery closer to homeLisa Bailey2025-09-25T12:43:06+01:00

Hospital trust builds on sustainability success with staff ideas

24 September 2025 Members of the Undergraduate Education Team at SaTH joined by tutors, examiners and simulated patient actors Staff at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) are finding more ways to reduce their environmental impact, following a major investment in green projects. The Trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal [...]

Hospital trust builds on sustainability success with staff ideasEmily Lovell2025-09-24T15:10:36+01:00

More hospital services go live with Patient Engagement Portal

23 September 2025 More specialties have now gone live with the Patient Engagement Portal (PEP), provided by DrDoctor, with patients already seeing the benefits of this new system. Following the successful pilot in the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) earlier this year, the portal is now available for digital [...]

More hospital services go live with Patient Engagement PortalCarmen Harper2025-09-23T15:36:08+01:00

Local community and hospital trusts to establish a Group

23 September 2025 The two Boards of Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust have agreed to establish a Group between the organisations. Under the proposals the Trusts would remain as separate statutory organisations, whilst seeking to appoint a shared leadership across both organisations to oversee strategy and service delivery. This follows the [...]

Local community and hospital trusts to establish a GroupCarmen Harper2025-09-23T13:07:54+01:00

Trust celebrates colleagues in Moving to Excellence Awards

22 September 2025 Staff at a hospital Trust have been nominating teams and individuals for Moving to Excellence Awards for those who have made a remarkable contribution or shown excellent compassion and dedication in their role. The Moving to Excellence Awards are held every two months and are open to all staff from The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS [...]

Trust celebrates colleagues in Moving to Excellence AwardsCaroline Cross2025-09-22T15:50:58+01:00

Next phase of Emergency Department refurbishment now open

18 September 2025 Eight more modern patient bays are now open in the Emergency Department at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) as part of ongoing refurbishment and redevelopment work. This follows new, larger purpose-built resuscitation bays and larger patient bays which opened in March this year. The whole department refurbishment, which is set to finish in 2027, is a [...]

Next phase of Emergency Department refurbishment now openlydia hughes2025-09-18T11:07:10+01:00