Hospital

Staff from Shropshire’s two acute hospitals join ground-breaking improvement initiative

18 July 2017 Staff from Shropshire’s two acute hospitals have been selected to join Q – an initiative aiming to support continuous improvement in the quality of care for patients. Mark Cheetham (Scheduled Care Group Medical Director), Nick Holding (Senior Kaizen Promotion Office Specialist), Dr Sheena Khanduri (Clinical Lead for Cancer Services), Sam Hooper (Medical Performance Manager), Keith Roberts (Senior [...]

Staff from Shropshire’s two acute hospitals join ground-breaking improvement initiativeClaire Dunn2017-07-18T08:54:28+01:00

Almost £60,000 funding boost to improve the safety of maternity services

11 July 2017 Shropshire’s maternity service has been awarded almost £60,000 to deliver training to improve safety. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) which runs the service was awarded £59,882 from Health Education England’s (HEE) Maternity Safety Training Fund. Nationally more than £8million has been distributed to 136 NHS Trusts, including all 134 acute Trusts with maternity units. [...]

Almost £60,000 funding boost to improve the safety of maternity servicesClaire Dunn2017-07-11T11:55:08+01:00

Huge crane lifts old MRI scanner out of PRH

11 July 2017 A 230ft high crane has now removed an MRI scanner from Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) – to pave the way for a state-of-the-art replacement to be installed later in the summer. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) [...]

Huge crane lifts old MRI scanner out of PRHSally Orrell2017-07-11T09:16:18+01:00

Hospital staff don pyjamas to highlight #endPJparalysis

6 July 2017 Hospital staff in Shropshire donned their pyjamas to highlight a campaign which is designed to help patients recover more quickly – by simply maintaining their daily routine. Staff on Ward 11 at PRH (including Deirdre Fowler, Director of Nursing Midwifery and Quality, far right) in their pyjamas to highlight #endPJparalysis Nurses, Health Care Assistants and [...]

Hospital staff don pyjamas to highlight #endPJparalysisClaire Dunn2017-07-06T14:30:02+01:00

Trust wins national award for cancer app

5 July 2017 Mr Andy Elves, Consultant Urologist; Sheena Khanduri, Clinical Lead for Cancer Services and Richard Pope, Clinical Director for Dynamic Health Systems, who helped develop the app, with the award. An interactive App developed to help cancer patients at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals has won a prestigious national Patient Safety Award. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital [...]

Trust wins national award for cancer appClaire Dunn2017-07-06T14:35:03+01:00

Huge crane to lift out old MRI scanner at PRH

30 June 2017 A 230ft high crane will remove an MRI scanner from Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in July 2017– to pave the way for a state-of-the-art replacement to be installed later in the summer. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is replacing its two existing MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners, one of which is at PRH [...]

Huge crane to lift out old MRI scanner at PRHClaire Dunn2017-06-30T14:51:46+01:00

Further improvements will be made to Maternity services following internal report

29 June 2017 The trust which runs maternity services in Shropshire has today published a report looking at the service over the last 10 years. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) strives to give the safest and kindest care to all mums and babies we look after. Whilst we achieve this on most occasions, we know we don’t [...]

Further improvements will be made to Maternity services following internal reportClaire Dunn2017-06-30T09:26:03+01:00

Proposals for interim measures for Shropshire’s Midwife-Led Units to be considered

28 June 2017 Proposals to suspend services at Midwife-Led Units (MLUs) in Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Oswestry for between three and six months will be considered tomorrow (Thursday 29 June 2017). The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has faced a combination of short-term and long-term sickness in recent months, as well as a significant fall in the number of [...]

Proposals for interim measures for Shropshire’s Midwife-Led Units to be consideredClaire Dunn2017-06-29T15:59:27+01:00

New radiotherapy machine means cancer treatment for more patients than ever

26 June 2017 The Trust which runs Shropshire’s two acute hospitals can provide radiotherapy treatment to more cancer patients than ever before thanks to the arrival of an additional Linear Accelerator (Linac). Staff take a look at the new Linac machine The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s (SaTH’s) third linear accelerator, which is based in the Radiotherapy [...]

New radiotherapy machine means cancer treatment for more patients than everClaire Dunn2017-11-08T11:36:30+00:00

Hospital shop which supports independent living celebrates 25th anniversary

23 June 2017 Rehabitat Shop A shop at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford which supports independent living is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The Rehabitat Shop, which is based outside the Occupational Therapy Department at PRH, opened its doors at the hospital in 1992. Since opening it has moved home at the hospital twice, most recently to [...]

Hospital shop which supports independent living celebrates 25th anniversaryClaire Dunn2017-06-23T09:57:13+01:00