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 [...]
The following is a message from David, Evans, Senior Responsible Office, NHS Future Fit. Details about SaTH's Sustainable Services Programme (which feeds into NHS Future Fit can be found here. People will have woken up this morning to see headlines telling them that A&E is to close at Telford and a new Emergency Department will be built at Shrewsbury. The most [...]
Senior hospital staff today spoke of their hopes for the future as health care leaders continue work to address challenges in critical and emergency care to improve patient safety. The Sustainable Services Programme drawn up by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) describes Trust plans to address the significant challenges to the safety and sustainability of patient services, specifically [...]
The Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has welcomed a decision by commissioners to support Trust’s plans to address challenges in emergency and critical care. The Board of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group today voted to support the Strategic Outline Case(SOC) of the Sustainable Services Programme, presented by SaTH, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess [...]
The majority of patients who currently attend Shropshire’s two A&Es will still go to the same hospital as they do now if one of the emergency departments closes. Patients currently treated for a variety conditions at the A&E Departments at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford would not need to travel to a new, single [...]
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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH)Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme describes potential solutions to the challenges of Accident & Emergency and Critical Care provision in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. Here, SaTH Chief Executive Simon Wright describes the document and why change is needed: We’re committed to providing the best service possible [...]
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH) Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme describes potential solutions to the challenges of Accident & Emergency and Critical Care provision in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. The SOC proposes one single fully staffed and equipped Emergency Centre supported by a network of Urgent Care Centres, one Diagnostic [...]
Artist impressions show how a new single Emergency Centre for Shropshire could look if one is created in the county. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH), which runs RSH and PRH, has produced a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Sustainable Services Programme, which describes potential solutions to the challenges of accident and emergency and critical care provision [...]
View the following article as a downloadable PDF Senior Consultants offer views on Strategic Outline Case
