5 June 2016 NHS Future Fit News Local people are being encouraged to find out more about the Future Fit consultation at the first two public exhibition events in Telford and Shrewsbury this week. The drop-in events run from 3.30pm to 7.30pm and are open to everyone. NHS doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff will be on hand to answer [...]
30 May 2018 The following information is from our colleagues at NHS Future Fit The transformation of local hospital services is now in the hands of local people with the launch today (30 May 2018) of the 14-week Future Fit public consultation. NHS Future Fit is about improving the hospital services provided at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shrewsbury and [...]
11 May 2018 The following information is from our partners at NHS Future Fit People across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales are to be asked for their views on proposals to transform local hospital services when the NHS Future Fit public consultation is launched later this month. The board of NHS Telford & Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) [...]
28 March 2018 The following news is from our partners at NHS Future Fit. For more information please view the special edition of our Safest and Kindest Newsletter. Half a million people living in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales are set to benefit from a capital funding injection of £300 million to transform their local hospital services. The [...]
NHS Future Fit press release 1 August 2017 Local health and social care partners met yesterday (31 July) to consider the next steps to transform hospital services for local patients in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Powys. The Future Fit programme board reviewed the additional assurance work that has been carried out to decide whether the time is right for [...]
20 April 2017 The following statement outlines what women and children’s services are proposed to be on the Emergency Site and Planned Care Sites under the Trust’s Sustainable Services Programme. More details about the programme are available here. The programme feeds into NHS Future Fit and will be subject to a full public consultation: Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The [...]
We have today issued a special edition of our Putting Patients First Newsletter. This edition focuses on our Sustainable Services Programme and provides a greater level of detail around the preferred option. Whilst NHS Future Fit is currently on hold, work is still ongoing to develop The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Sustainable Services Programme, which feeds into this. The [...]
24 January 2017 Consultants in Shropshire today shared how they have explored the benefits and pitfalls of transforming emergency care from other organisations which have been through similar experiences. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) proposes creating a single Emergency Centre at either the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) or Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford with Planned Care [...]
The following is a statement from Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, following Monday night’s Joint Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meeting about NHS Future Fit. You can read a CCG statement about that meeting here: https://www.sath.nhs.uk/news/work-needed-allow-nhs-future-fit-move-forward/ Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), said: “Our area's acute emergency service [...]
Doctors at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals believe proposals to separate emergency and planned care will significantly reduce cancelled hospital operations. Mr Joe McCloud, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at SaTH The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) cancelled 775 planned hospital operations in theatres last year, with approximately half being because of a lack [...]
