6 March 2018 Simon Wright, Chief Executive of The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has issued a response to an open letter which was sent to the SaTH Board and the Governing Body of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The response refutes a number of claims made in the letter. Simon's letter can be seen here. The original [...]
21 February 2018 The Postnatal Ward, within Women & Children’s services, has become the first ward in the Trust to be crowned with a ‘diamond’. Outstanding care, safety and kindness, leadership, cleanliness, exceeding targets and many other achievements, mean that the staff on the ward are the first to win the coveted Exemplar Ward Diamond status – the highest possible. [...]
20 February 2018 For more than a quarter of a century, it has been helping thousands of couples realise their dreams of becoming parents. Helping couples since 1991 Such is the success of the Shropshire and Mid Wales Fertility Centre - now one of the top IVF clinics in the UK - it [...]
19 February 2018 On 24 February Annie and Mark Hambley will celebrate the first birthday of their beautiful son Bodhi. Mark and Annie Hambley with son Bodhi (centre) with Clare Soltysiak, Fertility Development Co-ordinator; Victoria Gittins, Embryologist and Rosalind Grainger, Fertility Nurse. But for them, it will be no ordinary first birthday party. It will be a day when they [...]
19 February 2018 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is looking for people for whom 1948 was a particularly special year. Student nurses in Shropshire, who trained between the years of 1948 (the year the NHS was created) and 1951. As part of its plans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, SaTH wants to [...]
15 February 2018 Eight-month-old twin sisters Tali and Nina Owen-Tranter were born eight weeks prematurely weighing around 3lbs each. Tali and Nina with Julie Houlston, Neonatal Sister It meant that they needed specialist care in the neonatal unit at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, where they spent a month before finally being allowed to go home after [...]
8 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) will be temporarily suspended from 8pm today (Thursday 8 February) until 8am tomorrow (Friday 9 February). The decision has been made because of on-going short-term staff sickness which continues to affect the midwifery service. Women booked to give birth at Oswestry who go into labour during the temporary suspension of [...]
2 February 2018 Mums-to-be will be able to deliver their babies at Shrewsbury Midwife Led Unit (MLU) when it relocates next week. The MLU is being relocated to another part of the Copthorne Building at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) to allow further repair work to take place after last month’s heavy snowfall caused damage to the roof. Birthing and [...]
30 January 2018 New mums in Shropshire are treated with respect and dignity, listened to and given the help they need. Those are the findings of the latest survey of women’s experiences of maternity care, published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The survey also found that women who raised concerns during their pregnancy or delivery had those concerns taken [...]
29 January 2018 Twelve-week-old Betsy Cheal is a little miracle. Luke and Abigail with Betsy She was born almost four weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford, after her mother Abigail Hulme suffered a rare, life-threatening complication during labour. Abigail, of Newport, had suffered a uterine rupture – a condition which affects [...]
