26 February 2018 Knitting, busking and baking cakes - the family of a 14-month-old boy have been busy fundraising for the Children’s Ward at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital as a thank you for the care that he has received. Lisa Gilks receives the donation from the Evans family Three generations of the Evans family, from Market Drayton, helped [...]
23 February 2018 Inpatient services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit are to be suspended for a further two weeks, until 8am on 10 March 2018, to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. The unit will remain open between 8am and 8pm for antenatal and postnatal services but will not be able to accept inpatients. Sarah Jamieson, [...]
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 [...]
9 February 2018 Services at Oswestry Midwife Led Unit (MLU) are to be suspended until 25 February 2018 to ensure the safe care of mums using Shropshire’s maternity services. Our mums are choosing to have their babies in our Consultant-led unit over our rural MLUs, such as Oswestry. To protect their safety during the birth, we are having to look [...]
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 [...]
31 January 2018 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals is to offer “golden tickets” to student nurses to increase recruitment. Faye Crump, 2nd year student; Helen Jenkinson, Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality at SaTH and Mary Farmer, return to practice student, with a Golden Ticket. Instead of a formal interview, student nurses from Staffordshire University [...]
